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Agarista flexuosa, Wlk. xxxi. 4G (1864) ; Kirbj, Cat. Ilet. p. 22. 

 Agarisfa casuarmce, Scott, Austral. Lep. i. p. 24, pi. 8 (1855); McCoy, 

 Prod. Zool. Vict. i. pi. 8. ff. 5-8. 



(contorta). Black ; palpi with 5^ellow and white markings; pale 

 yellow streaks on sides of frons, vertex of head, tegular, patagia, and 

 vertex of thorax ; giilae and front of pectus pale yellow ; the hair 

 on fore coxae, femora, and tibiae fulvous ; the tibia3 and tarsi 

 marked with white ; abdomen with the terminal segment and 

 ventral bands on the two subterminal segments orange-fulvous. 

 Fore wing with oblique pale yellow subbasal band from costa to 

 vein 1 ; a somewhat sinuous and oblique antemedial band ; a bar 

 from below middle of costa extending across the cell, with another 

 from below its extremity to submedial fold; an oblique bar just 

 beyond the cell from below costa to vein 4 ; the postmedial band 

 oblique from costa to vein 4, then strongly incurved, strongly angled 

 outwards in submedian fold, then retracted to below the bar below 



Fig. 240. — Comocrus behri, (^ . 



end of cell ; a series of white streaks on the veins beyond it not 

 reaching termen ; cilia chequered black and white, wholly white 

 towards apex and tornus. Hind wing slightly shot with blue ; 

 traces of j-ellow spots in and below middle of cell ; a large discoidal 

 spot; a postmedial maculate band oblique from costa to above vein 4, 

 then incurved and again oblique to above tornus ; cilia chequered 

 black and white, wholly white towards apex ; underside with 

 yellow streak below basal half of costa ; the spots in and below cell 

 prominent and a spot above upper angle. 



Ab. 1. heliri. Hind wing with the postmedial band reduced to 

 spots. 



Ab. 2. flexuosa. Hind wing without discoidal spot or postmedial 

 band. 



Hah. CiuEENSLAND, Morcton Bay (Diggles), 1 2 type flexuosa; 

 N. S. Wales, Sydney {Darnel, Stutchhury), 2 $ type contorta; 

 W. Australia, Champion Bay (du Boulay), 1 ^ . Exp., S 64, 

 $ 82 millim. 



Larva. Black ; head, dorsal surface of 1st segment, legs and pro- 

 legs orange : somite 2 to the penultimate somite each with two 



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