HJiMABASIS, AGONISTA. 



7389. Hsemabasis calodesma. 



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Biczm-a calodesma, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xii, p. 474 (1905) & xiii. pi. iii. f. 4. 



6 . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown glossed with 



metallic blue, the tuft of hair from below base of fore wing 



whitish. Eore wing black-brown ; tlie basal half of costal ai-ea 



and middle of cell brilliant scarlet, an obliquely curved yellow 



Fig. 38.—H(smahasis calodesma, c^ . \. 



baud from the extremity of the scarlet area to inner margin 

 towards tornus, towards which it narrows somewhat ; cilia yellow 

 at apex. Hind wing very deep chocolate-brown, the cilia orange- 

 yellow except at tornus ; the underside with the yellow extending 

 on costa to middle. 



Hub. Br. N. Guinea, Owgarra {Meek), 2 d" • E.vj). 58-68 

 millim. 



Genus AGONISTA. 



Type. 

 Lygniodes, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 123 (1852), nee Schoenh. Col. 1836. endoleuca. 

 Agonida, JFeld. Eeis. Nov. expl. pi. 113 (1874) endoleuca. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and broadly scaled, the 3rd very long, slender ; irons smooth, with 

 tuft of hair above; eyes large, round ; antennae of male almost simple; thorax 

 clothed entirely witla hair and without crests; fore and hind tibia; of male 

 fringed with rather long hair ; all the tibias spined ; abdomen dorsally clothed 

 with rough hair towards base but without crests. Fore wing broad, the costa 

 highly arched towards apex which is somewhat produced and acute, the termen 

 evenly curved and not crenulate ; the cell about one-third length of wing 

 vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; (5 from upper angle 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long narrow areole; 11 from cell 



