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AGAKISTID^. 



white bands, slight lines between the somites and the spiracles 

 ■white; the j)enultimate somite crimson on dorsum and sides; the 

 terminal segment with one white band ; each somite with about 

 eight white setae dilated and flattened at extremity. Food-plants, 

 Loranthus jpendulus and Casuarina. 



Genus CRUEIA. 



Type. 

 Cruna, Jord. Nov. Zool. iii, p. 39 (1896) , donovani. 



Probosci8 fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with long 

 liair in front, the 3rd naked, porrect ; frons with truncate conical prominence 

 with raised rim at extremity ; antennae nearly simple, slightly dilated towards 

 apex ; tibisE smoothly scaled ; abdomen of male with protrusible lateral tults of 

 long hair from 2nd segment, the claspers large. Fore wing with rein 3 from 

 well before angle of cell; 5 fro'ii just above angle; 6 from just below upper 

 angle; 9, 10 anastomosing with 7, 8 to form the arcole ; 11 iVom cell. Hind 

 wing with vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



A. Abdomen with the bands pale yellowish donovam. 



E. Abdomen with the bands orange. 



a. Wings with the markings white vep^ioidcs. 



h. Wings with the markings pale yellow darviniensis. 



c. W^ings with the markings orange-yellow platyxantha.. 



39. Cruria donovani. 



Jqarista donovani. Boisd. Yoy. Astrolabe, Lep. p. ITfi f 1832) ; Herr.-Schiiff. 

 'Aussereur. Schmett. f. 28; Bull. 111. Het. B. M.' i. p. 9, pi. iv. f. 7 ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 23. 



Black ; palpi with pale yellow stripes at sides ; frons at sides and 

 gulae yellow ; back of head with yellow points ; tegulse edged with 

 yellow, a band across mesothorax and patagia ; pectus, coxse, and 



Fig. 241. — Cruria donovani, ^ . 



femora with orange hair, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen 

 with, pale yellow bands, the anal tuft and claspers tipped with 

 orange. Fore wing with oblique white streak from below middle of 

 cell to base of inner margin ; some white scales on subcostal nervure 

 and a slight streak above middle of vein 1 ; a white band across end 

 of cell ; two rather obscure spots beyond lower angle above veins 2 

 and 3 ; postmedial spots above and below vein 6 and others nearer 



