AG ARISTA. 6l 



is cylindrical and hairy, with a slight hump on the back of the 

 last segment. It feeds indiscriminately on a variety of plants. 

 Before changing to a pupa, it spins a slight web on the under 

 side of a branch, in the month of January. The Moth bred 

 by Lewin appeared in April, the pupa-state having lasted 

 seventy-two days. 



AGARISTA AGRICOLA. 



(Plate LXXVL Fig. i.) 



Papilio agricolct) Donovan, Ins. New Holland, pi. 32, fig. i 



(1805). 



Agarista picta> Leach, Zool. Misc. i. p. 37, pi. 15 (1815) ; 

 Duncan, in Jardine's Nat. Libr. Exot. Moths, p. 82, pi. 2, 

 fig i (1841). 



This species is one of the most beautiful Moths found in 

 Australia. In measures about two inches and a half across 

 the fore-wings, which are black, with a short longitudinal bar 

 of pale green scales at the base, continuous with a green 

 transverse band on the thorax. Beyond this is a curved and 

 rather indistinct fascia of bluish scales, followed by a large 

 oval orange-coloured blotch. Beyond this, again, is a row of 

 six oval orange spots, beyond which are several patches of 

 greenish scales; the extreme tip is white. The hind-wings are 

 black, with a green transverse band running from the inner 

 margin outwards for two-thirds of the length of the wing, while 

 a shorter and broader deep crimson band runs outward from 

 just above the anal angle between the green band and the lower 

 part of the hind margin. The thorax and abdomen are black, the 

 former spotted and banded with green, and the latter with an 

 orange apical tuft. The female has the thorax and basal area of 

 the fore-wings entirely greenish-yellow. The palpi, orbits, and 

 tips of the tarsal joints are white, and the pectus and femora 

 are clothed with long red hairs. 



