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AGARISTID^. 



Genus SCROBIGERA. 



Type. 

 Scrobigera, Jord. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 37 (1896) amatrlx. 



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

 hair in front, the 3rd well developed ; frons with small rounded prominence ; 

 autennai almost simple and slightly dilated before apex ; tibiffi nearly smoothly 

 scaled ; claspers of male large and tufted with hair. Fore wing with vein 3 from 

 well before angle of cell; 5 froui above angle; (i from upper angle; 9, It) 

 anastomosing with 7, 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars which 

 are angled outwards at its origin ; (i, 7 from upper angle; male with a fringe 

 of long black hair on upperside iu discal fold, in and beyond end of cell. 



A. Hind wing with orange band in both sexes. 



a. Fore wing with four yellowish spots beyond the cell amatrix. 



b. Fore wing with yellowish bar beyond the cell ■proxima. 



c. Fore wing without spots or bar beyond the cell kcsjperioides. 



B. Hind wing with orange band iu male, without band in 



female vacillmis. 



C. Hind wing without orange band in either sex. 



a. Fore wing with oblique orange band sanperi. 



b. Fore wing with oblique white band nive/fasciata. 



c. Fore wing with medial series of yellowish spots, and 



four spots beyond the cell vulccmm. 



d. Fore wing without band or spots albomarginata. 



30. Scrobigera amatrix. 



Eiisemia amatrix, Westw. Cab. Or. Ent. p. 68, pi. 33. f. 4 (1848) ; Hnipsn. 



Moths Ind. ii. p. 149 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 28. 

 Eusemia anma, Moore, Lep. E. I. C. p. 288 (1859) ; Butl. 111. Het. B. M. 



T. p. 18, pi. 82. f. 6 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 28. 



Fig. 239. — Scrobigera amatrix, c5' • 



S . Black ; palpi, frons, and tegulae orange with a few black 

 hairs ; legs mostly orange ; abdomen orange, with the base and 

 segmental lines on dorsal surface black, the anal tuft partly black. 

 Fore wing shot with blue ; the basal part of costal edge orange ; the 

 basal area with silvery-blue streaks below costa and on median 



