532 AGARISTID.*:. 



half of ventral surface orange, leaving the claspers black. Fore 

 wing with silvery-blue subbasal spots below costa and cell and 

 points at angles of cell ; a pale yellow quadrate patch in middle of 

 cell extending almost to costa and conjoined to a similar patch 

 below base of vein 1 ; a small white spot beyond upper angle of 

 cell, and others between veins 3 and 5 ; the veins of terminal area 

 streaked with brilliant blue, expanding towards termen and con- 

 fluent towards apex. Hind wing shot with blue ; a broad brilliant 

 blue band on terminal area with dentate inner edge and leaving a 

 sinuous black terminal line, 



2 . The terminal segment and anal tuft orange, the former with 

 dorsal black line. 



Ab. 1. Pore wing with the spots beyond the cell absent. 



(a) silhetensis. Fore wing with the medial patches conjoined. 

 (6) tj/rianthina. Fore wing with the medial patches separate. 



Hab. Nepal, 1 d" : Sikhim (Fotheringham), 4 c? , 2 $ , type 

 ti/nanthina ; Assam, Khtisis, 1 (5,3 $ , type silhetensis. Exp. 6G- 

 80 millim. 



Subsp. 1. Fore wing with the spots beyond the cell pale yellow, 

 minute. 



Hah. BuBMA, Khyeu Hills, 1 d" , 1 $ ; Yunnan". 



Subsp. 2. orientalis, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xv. p. 139 (1875) ; id. III. Het. 



B. M. V. p. 17, pi. 82. f. 2; Hmpsn. Moths lod. ii. p. 151 ; Kirbv, Cat. 



Het. p. 26. 



Hind wing with the blue subterminal band reduced and narrow ; 



fore wing sometimes with additional white spot beyond the cell 



above vein 5 ; abdomen of female without black band on terminal 



segment. 



Hab. N.W. Himalayas, Mussoorie, 1 $ type, Garwhal, 1 2 . 



Genus FLETA. 



Type. 



Fleta, Jordan, Nov. Zool. iii. p. 34 (1896) belanyeri. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with long 

 hair in front, the 3rd moderate, smoothly scaled ; frons with small rounded 

 prominence; antennse almost simple, distinctly dilated before extremity; 

 hind tibiffi with sparse long hairs ; abdomen of male with the claspers large. 

 Fore wing with vein 2 from towards angle of cell ; 3, 4 from angle ; 5 from 

 above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9, 10 anastomosing with 7, 8 to form a very 

 small areole, sometimes absent ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from 

 angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent, typically from just below middle of discocellulars ; 

 6, 7 shortly stalked ; male with the costa lobed at base, some long hair in 

 discal fold on upperside. 



Sect. I. Hind wing with vein 5 from just below angle of discocellulars. 



17. Fleta belangeri 



jruer. Belang6r's Voy. I 

 . Het. p. 27. 



(S . Black-brown ; head and tegulae with some yellow hair ; 



Agarhta belavgmi, Guer. Belang6r's Voy. lud. Or. p. 506, pi. 5. f. 3 

 (1834) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 27. 



