AGONISTA, 271 



postmedial area defined on outer side by a curved dark shade 

 towards eosta, a siibterminal series of minute blackish and white 

 spots oblique to below vein 3 where it is angled inwards ; hind 

 wing with faint dark striaj on terminal area, an indistinct oblique 

 dark medial line, postmedial line dark defined on outer side b^^ 

 whitish, escurved below costa, a series of minute dark subterminal 

 spots defined on inner side by whitish ; underside white suffused 

 and striated with red-brown except on inner area of hind wing, 

 both Avings with faint dark shade beyond the cell except on inner 

 area, both wings with the postmedial line entire except on inner 

 area of hind wing. 



Ab. 1. c? • J^ore wing with diffused greyish postmedial shade. 



Hah. SiKHiM, 1 c? , 3 5 ; Bhutan ; Assam, Silhet {Stainaforili), 

 2 d , 3 2 , Khasis {BucMey\ 1 S , Dibrugrah ( Ward), 1 d', 2 ? ; 

 Andamans, 1 c? . JE.vp. 90-104 millim. 



7394. Agonista reducens. 



Lygiiiodes reducens, Wlk. xiii. 1236 (18f)7) ; Moore, Lep. Cejl. iii. p. 140 



pi. ie;3. ff. 3, 3 « ; Hmpsn. Motlis Ind. ii. p. 464. 

 Lygniodes disparans, Wlk. xv. 1817 (1868). 



Lygniodes reducens, var. E-antiqua, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B.M. viii. p 89 

 ■(1891). 



cJ . Head, thorax, and abdomen dark greyish brown ; pectus, 

 hind legs, and ventral surface of abdomen tinged with whitish. 

 Fore wing dark brown tinged and slightly irrorated with grey, the 

 terminal half of inner area shot with blue ; a faint slightly sinuous 

 dark antemedial line ; a faint discoidal lunule defined by whitish 

 and black scales ; an oblique dark medial line ; a faint diffused 

 dark subterminal line with some greyish before it towards costa, 

 excurved below costa; a series of slight dark spots defined on inner 

 side by whitish before termen; cilia white except towards apex and 

 tornus. Hind wing dark brown with a cupreous gloss on post- 

 medial costal area and blue gloss on apical half of terminal area, 

 the inner area irrorated with grey and with faint dark strife ; 

 traces of a curved dark antemedial line ; cilia white except towards 

 apex. Underside of fore wing grey-brown with faint dark post- 

 medial and subterminal lines on costal half, the latter defined on 

 outer side by whitish, the terminal area irrorated with grey ; hind 

 wing grey-white irrorated and striated with brown, indistinct 

 brown antemedial and postmedial lines, and a series of slight dark 

 lunules before termen. 



$ . Pale reddish brown, the Avings faintly striated with brown ; 

 fore wing with the postmedial line more distinct ; hind wing with 

 dark medial line defined on outer side by whitish, and series of 

 slight dark spots before termen ; the underside whitish tinged and 

 striated with brown, both wings with brown postmedial line 

 defined on outer side by whitish. 



