138 Mr. A. G. Butler on new Species o/" Agaristidce. 



^^ E. conferta, n. 16"*; arjn'ius, n. 31; pedasus, n. 32; zea, 

 n. 34 ; pales, n. 35. 



Then, again, to proceed to more serious errors: — A.frontinus 

 (n. 2) belongs to tlie Noctuidai, and is identical with Ophiusa 

 pyrrhargyra, a common and well-known species which comes 

 in almost every Australian collection. A. ostorius (n. 3) also 

 belongs to the Noctuida^, and is the Fodina ostorius of 

 Walker's list. Dr. Boisduval says it is "tres-rare:" this 

 may be the case ; but there arc four examples in the collection 

 of the British Museum. A. alienata (n. 13) is one of the Catoca- 

 linw, and will probably form a new genus close to Ojdiideres. 

 A. lincea (n. 23) is the bamhiicina of Eschscholtz ; it comes 

 only from the Philippines so far as I know ; and A. linceoides 

 (n. 25) is typical A. lincea; we have it from K6 and Ceram : 

 these two, with the Eusemia-mollis group, will form a new 

 genus allied to Eusemia. 



1. Affarista polysticta, n. sp. 



$ . Allied to A. Lewinii, but smaller, shorter in the wing, 

 the spots on basal area lighter and more numerous, four on 

 costa (the two nearest to base minute), three increasing in size 

 within the cell, and five (the second and fourth larger and 

 oval) in a straight longitudinal line on interno-median area ; 

 postcellular band more angulated, almost divided in the middle; 

 discal series of dots obsolete, excepting near costa ; submarginal 

 dots larger, nearly white, seven m number ; fringe at a])ex of 

 primaries and round margin of secondaries white : body below 

 less streaked with orange : primaries below with the discoidal 

 spot close to the postcellular band (which is very irregular, as 

 above) : discal dots absent ; submarginal dots greyish ; secon- 

 daries with a small solitary whitish spot at origin of subcostal 

 branches. 



Expanse of wings 1 inch 8 lines. 



Between Sydney and Moreton Bay {Darnel). Type, B.M. 



Also allied to A. affinis and A. ephyra. 



2. Agarista neptioides, n. sp. 



? . Wings jet-black, fringe spotted with white ; primaries 

 with nine white spots arranged as in -4. Donovani, but smaller ; 

 no subapical diffused spots (as usual in that species) ; secon- 

 daries with a veiy narrow central white bar, cut by the 

 nervures, so that at its superior extremity it is divided into 

 three imequal ovoid spots : head black, white-spotted ; thorax 



• Unfortunately the British Museum does not possess a copy of Her- 

 rich-SchafiFer's ' Aeussereuropaische Schmetterlinge.' 



