548 AGARISTIDJE. 



terminal spots below costa ; cilia white at apex and with white 

 spots towards tornns. Hind wing with oblique yellow maculate 

 band from below costa beyond middle to middle of inner margin, 

 the spot above vein 6 displaced outwards ; cilia white at apex and 

 with series of white spots. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the bar across the cell obsolescent; hind 

 wing with the oblique band reduced to a series of small obsolescent 

 spots, on underside almost obsolete. — N. Guinea. 



Hah. '^. Guinea (Mathew), 1 $ ; jS". Australia, Pt. Darwin 

 (Elsey), 4 $ type. Ea72y. 48-62 millim. 



42. Cruria platyxantha. (Plate LI I. fig. 1.) 



Agarista platyxantha, Meyr. Trans. R. Soc. S. Austr. xiv. p. 194 (1891) • 



'Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 897. 

 Agarista tropica, Lucas, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) vi. p. 302 (1891). 



d" . Black ; antennae with white points ; palpi below, sides of 

 f rons, spots on vertex of head, gulae, and edges of tegulae ochreous ; 

 the hair on fore coxa3 and femora orange ; tarsi with white rings ; 

 abdomen with orange bands except on first two segments ; the anal 

 tuft orange except at base. Pore wing with the costal edge bright 

 ochreous; the area below costa and cell on basal half irrorated 

 with ochreous; a wedge-shaped spot in middle of cell and bar across 

 extremity ; a postmedial series of elongate spots, those above 

 veins 4, 5 nearer the termen ; two greenish subterminal spots 

 below costa ; cilia white at apex and spotted with white towards 

 tornus. Hind wing with ochreous bar across end of cell; an 

 oblicjue postmedial band from below costa to inner margin formed by 

 elongate spots in the interspaces ; cilia white at apex and with 

 series of white spots. 



5 . Tegulae not edged with ochreous ; fore wing with the 

 ochreous markings reduced and hardly an}^ irroration on basal area ; 

 hind wing without the bar across end of cell. 



Hah. N. Australia {Elsey), 1 S ; Queenslats^d, Cedar Eay 

 {Meeh), 1 c^ , 1 $ . Exp. 52-56 millim. 



Genus AGARISTA. 



Type. 

 Agarista, Leach, Zool. Misc. i. p. 37(1815) agricola. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned to above vertex of head, 

 the 2nd joint fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd somewhat porrect ; frous 

 with conical truncate prominence, with raised rim at extremity; antennae 

 nearly simple and moderately dilated towards extremity ; head, thorax, 

 femora, and abdomen clothed with rough hair; tibiae with the spurs long. 

 Fore wing with vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 5 from well above angle ; 

 6 from upper an^le ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long areole ; 11 

 free. Hind wing with vein 2 from close to angle of cell ; 3, 4 from angle or 

 shortly stalked ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; G, 7 from upper 

 anffle ; the termen sinuous. 



