270 NOCTTJID^. 



white except towards torn us. Hind wing velvetj^ black-brown, tho 

 terminal area glossed with blue, the inner area, and cilia on tornal 

 half silvery white. Underside greyish brown ; hind wing with 

 the inner area white to vein 2 below which there is some brown 

 irroration and striation, the white extending at termen to vein 4, 

 some slight white points before termen on the brown area and 

 brown lunules above and below vein 2. 



§ . Pale reddish brown ; fore wing with indistinct brown 

 antemedial line, a discoidal lunule faintly defined by blackish and 

 white scales, an oblique dark medial line with white points before 

 it above and below vein 4, a diffused dark postmedial line angled 

 outwards below vein 7, and subterminal series of minute blackish 

 sjiots with white points on their inner side, angled inwards between 

 veins 3 and 2 ; hind wing with faint oblique dark medial line, 

 postmedial line defined on outer side by whitish and slightly 

 exciirved below costa, and subterminal series of minute dark spots, 

 the inner margin whitish ; underside whitish tinged and irrorated 

 with brown', both wings with dark postmedial band defined on 

 outer side by white and excurved below costa. 



Hah. China (Cantor), 1 c? ; Assam, Silhet ; Buema, Moulmein 

 (Olerk), 1 J, Tenasserim Thoungyen Valley [Bingham), 1 J, 

 Dawnat Hills (cle Niceville), 2 2 ! Malay Peninsula ; Singapoke 

 {Ridley), 2 J ; Sumatea {cle Niceville), 1 d , 1 $ ; Java {Horsfield), 

 4 cT . Exp. 88-98 millim. 



7393. Agonista hypoleuca. (Plate CCIV. fig. 4 J , 5 $ .) 



Lygniocles hypoleuca, Gnen. Noct. iii. p. 125, pi. 16. f. 5 (1852) ; Hmpsn. 

 Mollis Ind. ii. p. 463. 



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

 and ventral surface of abdomen pale yellow ; mid and hind legs 

 grey-brown. Fore wing velvety black-brown, the cilia pure white 

 except towards tornus. Hind wing velvety black-brown, the 

 terminal area slightly glossed with blue ; the inner margin fringed 

 with white hair; the cilia pure white except towards apex and the 

 termen irrorated with white towards tornus. Underside white ; 

 fore wing irrorated and striated with red-brown except on inner 

 area, the cell, costa, and terminal area to vein 3 suffused with red- 

 brown, a minute blackish discoidal spot defined bj' whitish, traces 

 of a brown postmedial line defined on outer side by white and 

 excurved below costa, a series of white points before termen on the 

 brown area ; hind wing with the costal area striated with brown 

 and a few strise on medial area, a series of slight brown spots 

 before termen. 



2 . Grey-brown with a faint reddish tinge ; pectus and ventral 

 surface of abdomen whitish ; fore wing with some dark strife, a 

 faint dark sinuous antemedial line, reniform faintly defined at sides 

 by black and white, an oblique dark postmedial line with white 

 and black points before it above and below vein 4, a pale shade on 



