50 Colonel C. Swinlioe on new Eastern, 



Family Aganiidae. 

 Asota pJiih'ppinetisis, nov. 



(J. Pnlpi black, fust and second joints ^A•ith white stripes j 

 frons uliile, with a Mack central spot ; head and body deep 

 chrome-yellow ; a black spot at the base of eacii antenna; a 

 black and white collar, a black thin band behind it; a black 

 spot on each shonldcr, another on the thorax near the base of 

 the abdomen, a black stripe on the thorax at the base of the 

 fore wings, black dorsal spots on the first five segments of 

 the abdomen, and a double row on each segment below : fore 

 wings dark purplish gi'cy, as in A. paphos, with a deep 

 chrome-yellow subbasal patch, which does not touch the 

 custa, which is there black intersected by white, making four 

 square marks ; the immediate base is white, with a black 

 spot, followed by another on the inner edge of the clirome 

 patch ; an elongated spot on the lower side of the patch, an 

 angled spot on the middle of the outer side and a round spot 

 above it ; veins whitish, most prominently on the outer 

 portions of the wing: hind wings black, whitish above the 

 cell; some whitish longitudinal short streaks in the disk ; a 

 long streak in the abdominal marginal space and an outwardly 

 recurved whitish discal line or thin band, which ends near the 

 extremity of the long streak. On the underside the wings 

 are slaty grey for two thirds, slaty black with whitish veins 

 on the outer third ; a large patch or spot at the end of each 

 cell ; a small spot near the base on the fore wings and one 

 in the middle of the cell on the iiind wings; the veins are 

 marked with slaty black on both wings ; the discal recurved 

 band is clear on the hind wings, and indications of a some- 

 what similar baud on the fore wings; cilia white above and 

 below. 



Expanse of wings 2^^ inches. 



Cagayancillo, Philippines, Jan. 6, 1903 (type in B. M.). 



A handsome insect, belonging to the piphos group, 



Dxgama costimacula, nov. 



(J. Antennse simple; palpi white, with black spots at the 

 tips of each joint ; frons, head, thorax, and fore wings dark 

 slaty grey, frons and head with white and black spots at the 

 sides ; abdomen pale dull pink, with dorsal grey dots : fore 

 wings with three prominent subcostal white spots vevy close 

 to the costal line, the spots more or less square, tlie middle 

 one the largest, the first smooth, one fifth irom the base, the 

 last at one fourth from the apex : hind wings yellow, with 



