ANTIGASTKA. AGASTYA. 



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Fig. 224. 

 ra catalannalis, 



Jateral white lines. "Fore wing with the veins orange-red ; 



traces of a spot in cell and 

 discocellular spot, of a curved 

 antemedial line and postmedial 

 line excurved from costa to 

 vein 3, then bent inwards to 

 below angle of cell ; the 

 marginal area orange-red ; the 

 cilia black at base, pure white 

 at tips. Hind wing reddish 

 towards outer margin. 

 Hob. Europe ; Syria ; Aden ; E. & W. Africa, throughout 



India, Ceylon, and Burma. Eocp. 20 millim. 



Genus AGASTYA. 

 Agastya, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 378. 



Type, A. hyblceoides, Moore. 



Range. Sikhim. 



Palpi rostriform, projecting about the length of head and 

 downcurved at extremity ; maxillary palpi with a sharp tuft of 

 hair projecting forward from extremity ; frons rounded ; antennae 

 ciliated; tibiae with the outer spurs about two-thirds length of 

 inner ; hind tibiae fringed with spinous hair on outer side. Fore 

 wing broad and quadrate ; the costa very much lobed at base ; 

 veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 7 straight and well separated 

 from 8, 9, to which 10 is also approximated. Hind wing broad ; 

 the cell short ; vein 2 from near angle ; 3, 4, 5 approximated for 

 some distance ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



5181. Agastya hyblaeoides, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 379 ; C. $ S. 



no. 4524. 



Agastya iiavomaculata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 379; C. $ S. 

 no. 4523. 



<3 . Head, thorax, and abdomen dark red-brown. Fore wing 

 with the margins broadly dark red-brown ; the disk golden brown ; 



a dark discocellular patch 

 conjoined to the costal dark 

 area ; a conical yellow spot 

 on middle of inner margin, 

 usually with a small spot 

 above it. Hind wing golden 

 brown ; the apical area black- 

 Fig. OOK A~^ i,,^*, * L brown ; a 7 ellow submarginal 



the cilia yellow from below apex to middle. Underside yellow ; 

 fore wing with the costal area, a discocellular band, and the outer 

 area down to vein 2 black-brown ; hind wing with the apical area 

 blackish, emitting a postmedial line ending on vein 1 b and a mar- 

 ginal lunulate band ending on vein 2. 

 Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 32 millim. 



