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basal third : primaries with two clots at the end of the cell, the 

 lower one black ; external angle broadly pale stramineous, 

 traversed by a sinuous purplish abbreviated band, and mottled 

 with lake-red : secondaries crossed at external third by a 

 series of red clots ; apex purplish : head in front yellowish, 

 varied with red ; back of head and antennas white ; thorax 

 and base of abdomen green ; rest of abdomen yellowish, sprin- 

 kled with red and with large red-edged lateral white spots, 

 anal segments white at the sides. Under surface white ; 

 wings showing a slight greenish tint ; fringe as above ; a 

 lake-reel marginal line : primaries with pale yellowish costa; 

 a purplish abbreviated band near the external angle, as above ; 

 legs cream-coloured, anterior femora and tibige streaked with 

 rose-red. Expanse of wings 1 inch 3 lines. 



Darjiling (Lidderdale) . Type B. M. 



A. scutuligera is very like the Comibcena devexata of 

 Walker, to which it seems to be allied. 



43. Agatliia gtgantea, sp. n. 



Brilliant emerald-green : wings sparsely mottled with 

 mustard-yellow, crossed beyond the middle by an extremely 

 irregular olivaceous stripe, followed by a partly black- edged 

 greyish-white line, and limiting the external area ; on the 

 second median interspace in all the wings this stripe is ab- 

 ruptly bent outwards so as to form three sides of a quadrangle ; 

 external area (occupying two fifths of the primaries and half 

 the secondaries) sanely yellowish, mottled with black and grey, 

 and spotted and blotched with brilliant green mottled with 

 mustard-yellow, the green spots and blotches being arranged 

 in an imperfect discal series and a nearly perfect and partly 

 confluent submarginal series ; fringe testaceous at its base, 

 p-ey outwardly : primaries with the costal border pale flesh- 

 colour, with two oblique blackish streaks near the base ; a 

 nearly central zigzag sandy-yellowish stripe, and a large 

 roundish patch of nearly the same colour at the base of internal 

 area : secondaries with white basicostal area ; an olivaceous 

 dot at the end of the cell ; a subcuneiform sandy yellowish 

 patch before the middle of abdominal area ; base of the same 

 colour : abdominal fringe white towards the base ; palpi and 

 face white ; antennas and proboscis fulvous ; top of head 

 greyish brown ; collar and shoulders brilliant green ; thorax 

 sandy yellowish, with two green spots on the metathorax ; 

 tegulas greenish ; abdomen testaceous, ornamented on each 

 segment by a large central bilunate spot. Under surface 

 sericeous white; wings crossed by a blackish cliscal stripe, 

 angulated on the primaries, followed at a short distance by an 



