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19. Agathia albicurvatura spec. nov. 



<$ ? , 29-31 mm. Face rose-pint, mixed with grey, lower part whitish. Palpus 

 in J 1 with third joint very short, in ? moderately elongate ; mostly rosy, beneath 

 whitish. Vertex narrowly rosy ; occiput green. Thorax above green in front and 

 with a large green oval patch posteriorly, beneath whitish ; abdomen above rosy> 

 with a slight green admixture and some dark grey irroration, beneath whitish. 

 Hindtibia in <$ very strongly dilated, with dense light-brown hair-pencil and short 

 terminal process ; hindtarsus in c? short. 



Fore-wing without developed flap of scales from M over cell beneath ; bright 

 green ; costal edge broadly (at base narrowly) rose-pink, with a lilac tinge and with 

 sparse dark irroration; markings similarly coloured, in the <5 rather more lilac than 

 than in the ? ; basal patch scarcely narrowed in meeting the costal streak ; ante- 

 median band very narrow, in <$ twice interrupted (or indicated only by a few white 

 scales), in $ twice constricted, scarcely bent outward in middle ; postmedian band 

 accompanied proximally by an almost regularly curved white line from two-thirds 

 costa to hindmargin 1 mm. or less from tornus ; the band itself very narrow, con- 

 stricted (in <$ interrupted) about R-, meeting the narrow terminal band just behind 

 R 3 ; fringe pale brown, palest proximally, with vague dark dividing-line accentuated 

 by darker spots opposite the veins, those at apex and R 3 strongest, but not as sharp 



as in many species. Hindwing shaped nearly as in the typical group, but with 



the tail at R 3 relatively somewhat shorter, that at M 1 well appreciable, the dis- 

 crepancy between the two therefore less sharp ; postmedian band narrow, dentate 

 inward before and behind R 3 , accompanied proximally by a conspicuous white line ; 

 the green anterior patch between this and terminal line relatively long and narrow \ 

 blackish terminal mark in the tail triangular, the accompanying white mark rather 

 narrow ; extreme abdominal margin white, becoming mixed with rosy before 

 middle, the rosy colour widening very gradually and showing (especially in the ? ) 

 a hook-shaped projection 3 mm. before tornus. 



Underside pale, with the antemedian weakened, the other markings darkened. 



Dongala, S. of Palos Bay, Celebes, August — September 1896 (W. Doherty). 

 Type in coll. Tring Mus. 



20. Agathia asterias Meyr. 



This species appears to be geographically as well as individually variable. 

 It was described from the ? and always shows rather strong sexual dimorphism^ 

 the <S <? having the markings much darker, in most forms narrower. It differs from 

 distribute/, T. P. Luc. in the more extended markings, the subapical band of the 

 (brewing not or scarcely interrupted, running to termeu, whereas in distributee it 

 is much interrupted and runs to hindmargin well proximally to tornus ; in the 

 reddened abdominal margin of hindwing and the well-developed white spot before 

 the tail ; and finally in the abdomen, which in the cf is strongly darkened dorsally, 

 especially in a sort of irregular double line bordering the slight crests, in the ? 

 more mottled, whereas in both sexes of distributee it is green, with a quadrate 

 blackish spot on first tergite and a few pairs of small dots posteriorly. 



A. asterias asterias, 32-38 mm., very rarely attaining the latter measurement. 

 Bands on an average narrow, especially in the cf, rarely very strongly swollen 

 into spots. 



Queensland. 



