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ancle, as above : legs cream-coloured, anterior femora and tibiae streaked witb rose-red. 

 Expanse of wings 32 millim. 

 Darjiling [lAdderdale). 



A. scutuligera is very like the Comibmna devexata of Walker, to which it seems to be 

 allied. 



Agathia beata. (Plate CXVIII. fig. 2.) 

 Agathia beata, Butler, Ann. $ Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 218. n. 45 (18S0). 



Brilliant emerald-green : wings with the external area (occupying about a fourth of the 

 primaries and a third of the secondaries) dull brown, limited internally by an undulated black- 

 edged grey line ; a large apical green patch almost obliterating the whole of the apical portion 

 of the brown external area of primaries ; fringe whitish internally, black externally : primaries 

 with pinky-whitish costal border; a zigzag pale brownish stripe before the middle, com- 

 mencing in a black subcostal spot; a large brown spot at base: secondaries with the green 

 apical patch terminating behind in an abbreviated white submarginal streak or line ; a large 

 subanal green patch, composed of four unequal elongated lunate spots, just beyond the 

 undulated grey line ; abdominal margin and fringe white towards the base ; a small brown 

 basal spot : head brown in front ; thorax blackish, the collar, shoulders, and a spot on the 

 metathorax green; basal segment of abdomen black, with a central green spot, three following 

 segments green with pale brown borders and blackish dorsal tufts, remaining segments sordid 

 white. Under surface creamy whitish : wings slightly tinted with green ; external area grey, 

 paler at the margins, and with the apical patches of the upper surface greenish white : 

 primaries with an indistinct rosy zigzag stripe before the middle. Expanse of wings 10 

 millim. 



Darjiling (Lidderdale). 



Nearest to A. hemithearia of Guenee. 



Agathia visenda. (Plate CXVIII. fig. 3.) 



Agathia visenda, Butler, Ann. ty Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 218. n. 41 (1880). 



Allied to A. carissima, but larger, with longer primaries and distinctly caudate secon- 

 daries; the external area with much more angular inner edge; the subapieal green patch of 

 primaries with distinctly zigzag inner edge, and the two spots below it larger and consequently 

 more distinct, the external angle decidedly redder up to the second median branch ; the costal 

 border greyish brown, the curved stripe just before the middle of the wing darker and 

 beginning in an irregularly cruciform subcostal spot : secondaries with the external area 

 wider and greyer at abdominal margin; the small green spot enlarged and placed further 



