8 AGAEISTID.E. 



Agarista ephyra. (Plate IV. fig. 4.) 

 Agarista ephyra, Walker, Cat. Lep. Met. i. p. 42. n. 6 (1854). 



Smaller than the preceding ; primaries with five spots on the basal area ; postmedian 

 band not so strongly angulated ; spot on secondaries large and distinct. Expanse of wings 

 1 inch 7-9 lines. 



Tasmania. 



Agarista aflhiis. (Plate IV. fig. 3.) 

 Agarista aflinis, Boisduval, Toy. de V Astrolabe, i. Lip. p. 177. n. 8. 



Black-brown ; primaries with basal half yellow-speckled ; a more or less interrupted 

 oblique postmedian band ; a bisinuated discal series of minute white dots ; yellow spots on the 

 fringe at apex and external angle ; secondaries with the fringe yellow-spotted ; body blackish ; 

 head and thorax varied with whitish ; abdomen with whitish edges to the segments ; anal tuft 

 fulvous. Legs below varied with fulvous ; primaries without the basal yellow speckling or 

 white discal dots ; secondaries with a dot at end of cell and a discal series grey. Expanse of 

 wings 1 inch 5 lines. 



Australia. 



Agarista novae-hibernrae. (Plate IV. fig. 5.) 

 Agarista novao-hibernia?, Boisduval, Voy. de V Astrolabe, i. Lip. p. 128. n. 10. 



Primaries above black ; the base of the costa and the discoidal cell spotted with pale 

 blue ; internal area transversely streaked with pale creamy yellow ; an irregular, externally 

 tridentate, pale yellow, postmedian band ; a discal scries of pale blue dots : secondaries with 

 the basal half greenish grey, external half black-brown ; fringe spotted with white : head 

 and thorax black, spotted with pale yellow; abdomen grey; anal tuft fulvous, with black 

 dorsal spot. Primaries below without internal transverse streaks, discoidal blue spots united 

 into a patch; postmedian baud white; no discal dots; fringe white at apex and external 

 angle, as above : secondaries white, with a greenish tinge; a transverse black spot closing the 

 cell ; a broad external black band, crossed by a series of blue spots ; pectus white, venter 

 fulvous. Expanse of wings 1 inch 7 lines. 



Australia. 



Agarista leonora. (Plate IV. fig. 6.) 



Agarista leonora, Duubleilny. KttJ.rs's Discov. Austral. A/i}>. i. p. ">l s . 



\Vmj;s black : primaries streaked with pale blue; a transvcr.se oblique spot just beyond 

 the middle of the cell, a trilid spot beyond it, and four discal spots (the third elongated, 

 large, on first median interspace) pale yellow ; four bluish discal spots in pairs beyond the 

 velluw spots: secondaries greyish at base; costal area cupreous ; a discoanal macular pale 



