OEPIIANOSTIGMA. — AGROTEEA. 173 



Orphanostigma angnstale. (Plate CLXXII. fig. 20.) 



Expanse f inch. 



Male. Fore wing rather narrower than in the other speeies of the genus. Head, thorax, 

 and abdomen yellow, with some purplish 5,'rey suffusion, chiefly on collar and metathorax. 

 Palpi blackish, white below. Fore wing purplish grey, a large yellow kidney-shaped spot in 

 and below the cell ; a still larger one beyond the cell ; some yellow markings on inner margin 

 and at outer angle ; cilia yellow, fuscous at apex and middle. Kind wing yellow ; a fuscous 

 line on the discocellulars, another across apex ; a fuscous blotch at apex ; a spot ])cl()w first 

 median ner\aile and another at anal anffle. 



iEtholix cingalesa. (Plate CLXXIV. tig. 18.) 



Expanse s \l inch. 



Male. Head fulvous ; thorax and basal segments of abdomen yellowish white spotted 

 with orange, the terminal segments fuscous, with a white patch at extremity. Fore wing 

 yellowish white, spotted with orange ; a broad medial fuscous band edged with waved black 

 lines, with a black-edged orange spot on cell and orange irregular annulus at end of it, 

 followed by a hyaline band broad at costal half, narrow towards inner margin, and outwardly 

 edged by a black line at the broad part ; outer area fuscous ; costa fulvous from the medial 

 band to apex. Hind wing pale yellow at base, followed by an orange band not reaching the 

 costa, then fuscous as far as the oblique antemedial black line ; a broad, hyaline, oblique 

 medial band outwardly edged by a waved black line ; marginal area fuscous, narrow'ing to 

 anal angle. 



Agrotera effertalis, Wlk. (Plate CLXXIV. fig. 19.) 

 u^diodes effertalis, Wlk. Cat. xvii. p. 348. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale yellow, spotted with orange ; proboscis black ; legs 

 fuscous, fore legs ringed with black. Wings with the bases pale yellow spotted with orange ; 

 an irregularly waved medial black line ; the outer two thirds of wing purplish fuscous ; fore 

 wing with an orange-ringed yellow spot at end of cell ; a waved and bent postraedial black 

 line; cilia yellow in parts; hind wing with a jjostmcdial line from costa to second median 

 nervule. 



Agrotera magnificalis. (Plate CLXXIV. fig. 17.) 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Female. Head brown ; thorax yellow, flecked with orange scales ; abdomen ochreous. 

 Fore wing with the basal area yellow, thickly speckled with orange scales, and bounded by a 

 brown line ; the outer area pale brown with a purplish tinu;c, and traversed by a series of 

 black spots; the costa whitish between the medial l)r()wn Hue and the postmedial black 



