344 PYEALTD^E. 



5003. Lygropia flavispila, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xiv, p. 204. 



c? . Sericeous brown; palpi at base, thorax, and abdomen below 

 pale; both wings with broad ochreous white discocellular band 

 with sinuous edges. 



Hob. Khasis. Exp. 24 millim. 



5004. Lygropia poltisalis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 714. 



Samea yerburii, Butl. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 383, pi. 35, fig. 6 ; C. $ S. 



no. 4252. 



Hapalia oblita, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 222 j C. 8f S. no. 4100. 

 Notarcha semiflavu, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xviii, p. 166. 



Fuscous brown; palpi white below at base. Fore wing with 

 outwardly oblique sinuous antemedial line ; an annulus in cell 

 and large discocellular spot with ochreous line on it ; a dentate 

 postmedial line slightly outlined with ochreous, retracted at vein 

 3 to below end of cell, then sinuous to inner margin ; an ochreous 

 spot in end of cell and patch beyond the discocellular mark, or 

 sometimes the whole medial area suffused with ochreous. Hind 

 wing with discocellular annulus, with an ochreous spot before it 

 and patch beyond it; a dentate postmedial line outlined with 

 ochreous, retracted along vein 3 to the cell, then sinuous to inner 

 margin ; both wings with the veins of the outer dark area slightly 

 streaked with ochreous. 



The form yerburii from the N.W. Himalayas is much paler 

 than typical poltisalis from the Khasis and Borneo, which has 

 the markings black-brown ; oblita from Sikhim is intermediate. 



Hob. Murree; Dalhousie; Dharmsala; Sikhim; Khasis; Borneo. 

 Exp. 36 millim. 



Genus AGATHODES. 



Agathodes, Guen. Delt. 8f Pyr. p. 207 (1854). 

 Stenurges, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 416. 



Type, A. ostentalis, Geyer. 



Range. Neotropical and Ethiopian regions ; India, Ceylon, and 

 Burma ; Malayan subregion to Sumbawa. 



Palpi upturned and hardly reaching vertex of head, the 2nd 

 joint broadly scaled in front, the 3rd porrect and lying on the 

 hair of 2nd joint ; maxillary palpi triangularly scaled ; frons flat ; 

 antennae of male nearly simple ; mid and hind tibiae clothed with 

 spinous hair on outer side, the outer spurs less than half the 

 length of the inner; abdomen long; male with lateral anal tufts 

 and the claspers and anal tuft extremely developed. Fore wing 

 very long and narrow ; the apex produced and outer margin 

 oblique ; veins 3, 4, 5 from lower angle of cell ; 7 approximated 

 to 8, 9 for about one-third length, 10 also approximated to 8, 9. 

 Hind wing with the cell long ; vein 3 from angle ; 4, 5 approxi- 

 mated for a short distance ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing, 

 with 8. 



