ASKOKIA. 



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Genus AGKONIA. 



Type, 



AgJconia, Dognin, Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, xxsviii. p. 128 (1894) pega. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head, with 

 dovmturned hair at end of 2nd and on 3rd joint on outer side ; antenna of 

 male with bristles and cilia; tibise with the spurs moderate ; abdomen clothed 

 with rough hair. Fore wing narrow ; vein 2 from beyond middle of cell ; 

 5 absent ; 6, 7, 8 stalked ; 9, 10, 11 stalked, 9 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areole, 10, 11 becoming coincident with 12; the costa in male with a lobe and 

 small tuft of hair on upperside near base. 



Sect. I. Hind wing with veins 2, 3 and 4, 5 stalked from angle of cell ; 6, 7 

 stalked ; 8 from towards angle of cell and much curved, the neu- 

 ration much distorted by an elongate swelling in cell on underside ; 

 fore wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell. 



*383. Agkonia pega. 



Agkonia pega, Dognin, Ann. Soc. Ent, Beige, xxxviii. p. 128 (1894); id, 

 Lep. Loja, p. 109, pi. 11. f. 15. 



S . Pale ochreous ; head and thorax slightly tinged with fuscous. 



Fore wing with the base 

 of costa and lobe tinged 

 with fuscous ; an oblique 

 shade of diffused fuscous 

 scales from costa at ex- 

 tremity of lobe to a similar 

 oblique shade from near 

 apex, the two meeting at 

 inner margin; the terminal 

 area with some diffused 

 Tbrown scales. Hind wing rather yellower. 



Hah. Ecuador, Loja, type f (S in Coll. Dognin. Exj^. 36 millim. 



Fig. 104. — Agkonia pega, (^ . 



Sect. II. Hind wing with veins 2 and 4 from angle of cell, 3 absent, 5 above 

 angle ; 6, 7 on a long stalk and with an elliptical patch of androconia 

 on them ; 8 much curved ; fore wing with veins 3, 4 stalked ; frons 

 hollowed out ; patagia with tufts of long hair ; hind tibise with 

 tuft of scales on upperside at base. 



384. Agkonia miranda, n. sp. 



Fig. 105. — Agkonia miranda, (^ . \. 

 (S . Yellowish white ; head and thorax brownish ; the tufb of 



