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the upperside in male clothed with silky androconia except on terminal area. 

 Hind wing with the inner margin very long in male, the inner area with a 

 strong fold between veins 1 a and b, the whole wing clothed with silky andro- 

 conia except the inner area ; the cell about one-fifth length of wing ; veins 3, 4 

 from angle ; 6 fully developed from above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Hind wing of male with the inner area yellow. 



a. Hind wing of male with the whole tornal area fulvous yellow ochrifera. 



b. Hind wing of male with the tornal area not yellow flateni. 



B. Hind wing of male with the inner area pure white endoleuca. 



C Hind wing of male with the inner area not white. 



a. Fore wing on underside mostly white hypoleuca. 



b. Fore wing on underside not white. 



a^. Hind wing of male on underside mostly white reducens. 



6'. Hind wing of male on undeiside not wliite ciliata. 



7390. Agonista ochrifera. 



Agonista ochrifera, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 113. ff. 5, 6 (1874;. 



(5 . Head and thorax very deep chocolate-brown ; pal{)i yellow 

 on inner side; pectus yellow; legs giey-brown, the fringes of 

 hair yellow ; abdomen yellow, the basal segments dorsally deep 

 chocolate-brown, then with dorsal brown suffusion narrowing 

 towards extremity. Fore wing very deep chocolate-brown, the 

 cilia pure white except at apex. Hind wing with the basal area 

 deep chocolate-brown, then silky red-brown from costa to vein 4 

 with the termen glossed with metallic blue, the rest of wing fulvous 

 orange extending on inner margin to base. Underside of fore 

 wing violaceous brown with an incurved postmedial series of white 

 spots between veins 9 and 6, the spot above vein 6 larger, some 

 slight whitish suffusion on termen from above vein 3 to submedian 

 fold ; hind wing reddish brown suffused with yellowish grey scales 

 to beyond middle, the inner area yellow. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown ; fore wing grey- 

 brown with a slightly sinuous ochreous white postmedial band 

 defined on each side broadly by dark brown, the terminal area dark 

 brown with sinuous inner edge ; hind wing black-brown with a 

 large postmedial yellow patch between veins 5 and 1 extending 

 between veins 4 and 2 almost to termen with elongate brownish 

 marks on it in the interspaces, cilia yellow ; underside of fore 

 wing with subterminal series of eight white spots. 



Hah. CEh^n^s (DoJierty), 1 J. Exj). d 82, $ 86 millim. 



7391. Agonista plateni. (Plate CCIV. fig. 1.) 



Lygniodes plateni, Pag. Iris, iii. p. 18 (1890). 



(S . Head and thorax velvety black-brown ; pectus and legs 

 reddish brown, the pectus behind, hind femora and tibiae below 

 yellowish ; abdomen yellow, the basal half of dorsum velvety 

 black-brown narrowing to a point at extremity. Fore wing velvety 



