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Genus AGARISTODES, nor. 



Type, A.feistliaineli. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, extending about the length of head 

 and clothed with long liair; irons vv-ith rounded prominence with minute 

 truncate process with raised edges at centre ; eyes small, renit'orm ; antennae of 

 male bipeclinate with moderate branches, short towards base and apex, of female 

 serrate; thoraxclothed with rough hair only and without crests; femora fringed 

 with long hair, the tibiiK smoothly scaled ; abdomen clothed with rough hair 

 and with hairy crest at base. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 8 ;ind 5 fi'om near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 below upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areola; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with vein 2 from near angle of cell ; 3, 4 from angle ; 5 ob- 

 solescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



4935. Agaristodes feistliameli. 



Agarista feisthamelii, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 25 (1853) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. pp. 22, 442. 



cJ . Head and thorax black, the tegtilfe and upper edge of patagia 

 with slight whitish stripes ; the femora fringed with orange hair, the 

 fore and hind tibiae at base, middle and extremity, the hind tibiie at 

 base, the spurs and tarsi banded with wliite ; abdomen black, the basal 

 crest orange, the two subterminal segments with orange bands and 

 the anal tuft orange. Fore wing black-brown irrorated with bluish 

 white ; subbasal line bluish white, sinuous, from costa to vein 1 ; 



Fig. 219. — Agaristodes feisthameli, cJ. \. 



antemedial line bluish white, oblique, diffused, sinuous, a wedge- 

 shaned yellowish white patch beyond it in cell and a quadrate patch 

 towards extremity of cell; a broad curved postmedial yellowish- 

 white band from below costa to vein 2, its inner edge expanding at 

 discal fold, then excurved and bent inwards above vein 2 to the 

 patch in cell, a fine sinuous bluish-white line beyond it from costa 

 to vein 6 and a sinuous subterminal line from below costa to vein 

 6 ; a series of minute rouud white spots just before termen ; cilia 

 white at tip.' towards apex and tornus. Hind wing black-brown 

 with large yellowish-white postmedial patch from below costa to 

 vein 1, its inner edge slightly irregular, its outer edge strongly curved; 

 a faint diffused whitish bar near end of cell ; cilia white at tips except 

 between veins 6 and 2; the underside with the whitish patch 

 running inwards below costa to base, an elliptical black discoidal 

 spot. 



