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ARCTIADiE. 



*438«. Agylla virilis. (Plate XXIX. fig. 5.) 



Agylla virilis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 224 (1913). 



5 . Pure white ; frons and antennas black ; palpi black, yellow 

 towards base ; pectus and legs yellow, the fore and mid tibiae and 

 tarsi blackish in front. Fore wing with the costal edge blackish ; 

 an oblique glossy black postmedial band, its outer edge slightly 

 excurved at vein 4 ; cilia blackish from apex to below vein 4. 

 Hind wing with postmedial blackish spot between veins 4 and 2. 

 Underside of fore wing with a faint ochreous tinge. 



Hab. Formosa, Horisha, type f $ in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 

 54 millim. 



438 b. Agylla alboluteola. (Plate XXIX. fig. 6.) 



Agylla alboluteola, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 226 (1912). 



6 . Head black-brown with a bluish gloss, the vertex yellowish 

 white, the palpi orange-3 T ellow in front ; thorax yellowish white ; 

 pectus, legs, and abdomen orange-yellow, the fore and mid tibia? 

 and the femoro-tibial joint of hind legs black-brown with a bluish 

 gloss, the tarsi black-brown with a bluish gloss and ringed with 

 yellow. Fore wing yellowish white, the costa narrowh' black-brown 

 with a bluish gloss ; a black-brown postmedial band glossed with 

 metallic blue, its inner edge oblique, its outer edge strongly ex- 

 curved and somewhat angled at veins 6 and 4 ; cilia black-brown 

 on apical half. Hind wing orange-yellow with a round dark brown 

 subterminal spot from vein 5 to below 3. Underside of fore 

 wing pale orange-yellow with the postmedial band dark brown and 

 extending from below costa to submedian fold. 



$ . Fore wing with the costal edge only black, the postmedial 

 band expanding slightly below vein 4; hind wing without any 

 yellow. 



Hab. Assam, Khasis, type f d in Coll. Rothschild; Selangor, 

 Euket Kutu (Holman-Hunt), 1 6 , 1 $ . Exp. 48 millim. 



*439ff. Agylla idolon. (Plate XXIX. fig. 7.) 



Agylla idolon, Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xlii. p. 50 (1912). 



Head and teguke dull ochreous yellow ; thorax and abdomen 

 white, the legs and ventral surface of abdomen tinged with dull 

 ochreous ; wings white, the underside of fore wing grey. 



Hab. Mexico, Mexico City (Mailer). Exp. 27-30 millitn. 

 This species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type 

 in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



439 b. Agylla tecta. (Plate XXIX. fig. 8.) 



Ilema tecta, Wileman, Entom. xliii. p. 221 (1910). 

 Head and thorax white slightly tinged with brown especially on 



