AGAKISTA. 549 



4;J. Agarista agricola. 



TapUio agricola, Donov. Ini. New. Hull. pi. '6'1. f. 1 (181)5) ; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 21. 

 Agarista picta, Leach, Zool. Misc. i. p. 38, pi. 15 (1815); Duncau, Nafc. 



Libr., Exot. Moths, v. p, 83, pi. 2. f. 1. 



(S . Black ; 1st and 2nd joints of palpi, sides of froas, verte.x of 

 head, guise, a band on tegulaj, and extremity of patagia pale yellow ; 

 pectus and ffiuora with tho hair pink; fore and mid tibine and 

 tarsi with white points, tho mid tibiaj streaked with orange ; abdomen 

 with the anal tuft orange. Fore wing with oblicjue pale yellow 

 fascia from below middle of cell to base of inner mai'gin ; a sub- 

 basal blue line from costa to below cell ; the antemedial blue line 



Fig. 242. — Ayarisfa ('(jriciila, (^ . \. 



slightly excurved below costa, then oblique to subraedian fold ;. a 

 large orange spot in end of cell, with smaller spots below it above 

 and below base of vein 2; an obliciue postmedial series of orange 

 spots between veins 7 and 2 in echelon of two, two, and one spots ; 

 the postmedial line represented by blue spots running oblicjuely from 

 vein 2 to 4, then two curved marks, then as a line retracted to 

 below end of cell and stronger towards inner margin, with four 

 spots beyond it on veins 7 to 5 and one near tornus ; cilia white at 

 apex, and white-tipped towards tornus. Hind wing with maculate 

 blue medial band from below costa to inner margin ; a maculate crimson 

 postmedial band from vein 4 to near tornus ; cilia white with some 

 black at ))ase ; underside with blue streaks on basal area below 

 costa and cell, and pale yellow and bluish spots in cell and on 

 discoccllulars. 



$ . Teguhc except in front, ])atagia, and thorax pale yellow ; 

 fore wing with the yellow on basal area extending to below costa. 



JIah. QcKKNsr.ANi), Moreton 13ay (/At/xt/), 5 cJ , 4 $ ; New Souxu 

 Wales, Sydney {Ray nor), 1 S . Exp., cj" 70, 5 84 millim. 



Subsp. 1. hifonais, Bull. A.M.N.IL (5) xiv. p. 104 (1884); Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 21. 



Fore wing of female with the spots in and below cell and the 

 <)bli(iuc postmedial series pale yellow; hind wing in both sexes 

 vitli the crimson nuiculate band not exterding above vein '<^. 



Ilab. N. AusTUALiA, Ft. Darwin (/. /, Walker), 2 J , 4 $ , type. 



