606 



AGAEISTIDiE. 



with liirge dorsal crests ou basal segments. Fore wing with vein 3 from close 

 to angle of cell ; 5 from well above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole, 7 from end of areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocelliilars ; G, 7 from upper angle. 



133. Asteropetes noctuina. 



Scudyra noctuina, Butl. Ent. Mo. Mag. xiv. p. 206 (1878) ; id. 111. Het. 

 B. M. ii. p. 3, pi. 22. f. 1 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 38. 



Head and thorax clothed with blackish and grey hair ; mid and 

 hind tibiae fringed with orange ; abdomen orange, the dorsal crests 

 blackish, mixed with rufous and grey at base, the extremity black, 

 the ventral surface grey. Fore Aving purple, some greyish hair at 

 base of cell ; a brownish fascia below the cell, with three oblique 



Fig. 264. — Asteropetes noctuina, cJ 



streaks from it to vein 1 ; the orbicular and reniform black, suffused 

 with brown scales and edged with grey, the latter with tridentate 

 ochreous-white patch beyond it and some grey-brown suffusion 

 above it on costa ; two black postmedial lines on a brown band 

 slightly angled inwards at vein 2, the inner curved inwards to 

 upper edge of reniform, the outer to costa ; the terminal area 

 purplish pink, with red line on its inner edge and two on termen with 

 some black and white on their inner side from vein 3 to tornus ; 

 •cilia brown. Hind wing orange, with large round black discoidal 

 spot ; a black terminal band diffused inwards to near base on inner 

 area, and leaving an orange mark on termen above tornus ; cilia 

 yellowish white, with a brown line through them. Underside 

 orange, fore wing with the orbicular, and both wings with the 

 reniform stigma and an elongate mark below the cell black. 



Hah. Japan, Yezo (Pi-yer), 2^,25, Hakodate {Letvis), 4 J , 

 4 5 , types. Ea-p. 44 millim. 



Genus PAR.5;G0CERA, nov. 



Type, P. confliiens. 



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

 hair below, the 3rd naked, moderate, porrect ; frons with short rather beak-like 

 prominence; antenna' almost simple, distinctly dilated before extremity ; tibiae 

 fringed with long hair above ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments, 

 the male with long lateral tufts from base. Fore wing with vein 3 from before 

 angle of cell, 5 from above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 from well 

 before angle of cell ; 3, 4 from angle ; 5 obsolescent from middle of disco- 

 «L41ulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



