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A. Fore wing white, with medial series of spots and prominent 



black streaks on veins of terminal area guttivitta. 



B. Fore wing fusoous, without medial series of spots ; the 



veins of terminal area slightly streaked with fuscous fallginosus. 



539. Agrisius guttivitta. 



Agrisius guttivitta, Wlk. iii. 723 (1855) ; Butl. 111. Het. B. M. v. p. 40, 

 pi. 87. f. 2 ; Hiupsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 64 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 304. 



White ; palpi streaked with black ; frons with black spot ; 

 antennoe black except towards base ; tegulae, shoulders, patagia, 

 meso- and metathorax with black spots ; legs streaked with black ; 

 abdomen with subdorsal and ventral black bands, the extremity- 

 black. Fore wing with the costal edge black towards base ; a 

 subbasal spot with an oblique series of three spots beyond it ; 



Fig. 173. — Agrisius guttioitta, S- \- (From Muths Ind. vol. ii.) 



an antemedial series of spots forking towards costa ; spots in and 

 above middle of cell ; a medial series bent outwards to costa, then 

 oblique ; a discoidal spot ; a postmedial series from beyond upper 

 angle of cell, incurved below the cell ; the veins beyond the cell 

 strongly streaked with black ; cilia tipped with black. Hind wing 

 with the veins of terminal half strongly streaked with black, 



Ilah. SiKHiM (Lidderdale, Dudgeon), 4 J , 3 $ , type. Kvj). 46 

 millim. 



*540. Agrisius fuligiiiosus. 



Agrisius fuliginosus, Moore, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 571, pi. 33. f. 3; Hmpsn. 



Moths Ind. ii. p. 65 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 304; 8winh. Cat. Het. Miis. 



Oxon. p. 113. 

 Agrisius japonicus, Leech, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 598, pi. 30. f. 10 ; Kirbv, Cat. 



Het. p. 304. 



2 . White, suffused with pale fuscous ; palpi streaked with 

 black ; frons with black spot ; antennte black except towards base ; 

 tegulae, shoulders, patagia, meso- and metathorax with black spots ; 

 legs streaked with black ; abdomen with dorsal and subdorsal 

 black spots and ventral bands. Tore wing with the costa streaked 

 with black towards base ; a subbasal black spot, followed by an 

 oblique series of three spots ; an antemedial series forking towards 

 costa ; a spot at middle of cell ; two medial spots below costa ; 

 a postmedial series from beyond upper angle of coll, slightly bent 

 inwards below the cell ; the veins of tormina area slightly streaked 

 with fuscous. Hind wing uniform fuscous. 



Jfab. JwAJjf, ty[)of japonii-as in Coll. Leech; China; ? India, 

 typet in Mus. Oxon. Krjj. 50 millim. 



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