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ones, agreeing with them in the full development of the frenulum, but having taken an independent path 

 of evolution in some respects. The colouring is generally green, at least in great part, sometimes with an 

 admixture of rich brown resembhng withered leaves, and not infrequently with a more or less jagged wing- 

 outline. In Agathia the face is rounded-prominent, palpus in $ with third joint long, antenna in both 

 sexes nearly simple, hindtibia in cJ strongly dilated, with hair-pencil and usually a short, broad terminal 

 process, abdomen often crested, forewing with first subcostal nearly always free, hindwing strongly tailed at 

 third radial and shghtly or rather strongly at first radial, second subcostal not stalked. Early stages im- 

 perfectly known. The genus is a large and very natural one, spread over the entire Indo-Austrahan Region, 

 with a few stragglers in the Palearctic and Aethiopian. 



A. lycaenaria KoU. (= albiangularia H.-Sch.) (Ih) is a rather common and widely-distributed Indian lycaenaria. 

 species, but was originally described from Kashmir, and has also reached the outskirts of the Palearctic Re- 

 gion in Western China. Bright green with the costal edge of the forewing red-brown. Markings purple-brown 

 (cj) or red-brown ($), sometimes edged, with yellow. Forewing with a basal patch, a shghtly bent antemedian 

 band, thickening at the margins and in middle, in cJ often reduced to a mere thread between, an irregular band 

 near distal margin, forming a broad blotch in middle and. smaller blotches or spots at margins, more or less 

 interrupted between, a marginal hne thickened into dark spots at apex and about the third radial. Hindwing 

 with smaller basal patch and a submarginal band starting from a blotch near apex and running to a larger 

 blojbch in middle, which extends on to the tail of the wing, enclosing a large white spot ; an isolated spot on inner 

 margin marks the end of this band. Underside very much paler, with similar markings. The $, as is usual 

 in the genus, has the markings all much more extended than in the ^. The larva, according to a drawing 

 by Moore in coll. Brit. Mus., is brown, marked with white on face, with bluish white dorsal pattern and lateral 

 spots. Pupa moderately slender, tapering anteriorly, brown, dorsally dark-speckled and with very large dark 

 spiracular spots, anal armature consisting of 8 booklets. 



A. carissima Btlr. (= lacunaria Hed., 1 zonaria Don.) (1 h). Coloration similar to that of the prece- carissima. 

 ding species, but the sexes less dissimilar. Line and band more continuous and uniform in width, inner Hne 

 obliquely curved, reaching inner margin much further distally, submarginal band of forewing nearly smooth- 

 edged proximally, in both wings reaching the distal margin in posterior half of wing, enclosing an ovate green 

 patch in anterior half. Apparently common in Japan, and distributed from Korea to West China, representing 

 in the Palearctic Region the Indian hilarata Guen. Both sexes vary somewhat in the width of the submarginal 

 band, which, when broad, usually encloses on forewing one or two small green spots posteriorly to the constant 

 large one. The specimen figured by Donovan, as long ago as 1799, under the name of zonaria, and said to come 

 from China, looks more like a small aberration of the Indo-Malayan laetata, but even if it belongs here the 

 name cannot be resuscitated, being a homonym. 



10. Genus: Aracima Btlr. 



Palpus in both sexes short, antenna short, in (J with short, subclavate pectinations, hindtibia in (J 

 somewhat dilated, with small hair-pencil, abdomen scarcely crested, both wings with distal margin crenulate 

 and a more noticeable excision between first and third radials, forewing with first subcostal anastomosing 

 with costal and with second subcostal, hindwing with second subcostal arising from cell or from a point with 

 first radial. The name-type of the genus is Palearctic ; a second species, apparently referable to it, has recently 

 been described from Formosa. 



A. muscosa Btlr. (= vestita Hed.) (1 h). Ground colour dull yellowish green, easily fading to a dirty muscosa. 

 yellowish (perhaps bred specimens would be brighter), the markings dark purple-brown. Both wings with a 

 discal spot, that of forewing always and that of hindwing sometimes large and oval ; on forewing followed poste- 

 riorly by a blotch of variable size, which sometimes reaches the inner margin, on hindwing usually accom- 

 panied anteriorly by a small blotch, placed shghtly distally. A moderately broad marginal band, complete 

 on hindwing, on forewing running from inner margin to third or second radial, indented at its extremity by 

 the ground colour. The usual hues very faint or quite obsolete, the origin of the postmedian on forewing some- 

 times marked by a dark costal spot. Japan and Amurland, May to July. Very variable in the size of the mark- 

 ings, but always easily recognizable. 



