26 CHALCOSIID^— ZIQM8IDM 



AGALOPE, Walk. 

 Agalope basalis. (Plate LXXXIV. fig. 5.) 

 Agalope basalis, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. ii. p. 438. n. 1 (1854). 



Wings semitransparent cream-colour ; primaries with the base orange ; the veins, a spot 

 across the middle of the cell, a transverse streak from base of first median branch, the apical 

 area (excepting an oval spot near the apex) , and the outer border grey : body blackish, thorax 

 spotted with white ; pectus whitish. Expanse of wings 1 inch 7 lines. 



Almora, North India. 



Agalope glacialis. (Plate LXXXIV. fig. 6.) 



Nearly allied to the preceding, but snow-white, becoming slightly yellowish towards the 

 base of the primaries ; base more broadly and more brightly orange, with two small pearly- 

 white basal dots ; a blackish dot upon the costa at the outer margin of the orange area ; grey 

 areas as in A. basalis, excepting that the greater part of the cell is grey, and the transverse 

 streak is better defined and reaches the inner margin : secondaries with grey fringe ; body dark 

 slaty grey, spotted with white, sides of anus testaceous. Body below blackish, spotted with 

 white ; venter with the sides and edges of the segments white. Expanse of wings 1 inch 

 7 lines. 



Darjiling (Lidderdale). 



Agalope primularis. (Plate LXXXIV. fig. 7.) 

 Agalope primularis, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 392. 



c? . Also allied to A. basalis, but the entire ground-colour of the primaries lemon-yellow, 

 and the basal orange spot brighter ; the grey spot distinctly uniting with the transverse stripe, 

 the whole grey area darker, the end of the median vein broadly grey ; secondaries pale sulphur- 

 yellow : body similar to the preceding species. Expanse of wings 1 inch 6 lines. 



Darjiling (Sadler). 



This species flies in the month of May. 



ZYGiENIDiE. 



ARTONA, Walk. 

 Artona discivitta. (Plate LXXXIV. fig. 8.) 

 Artona discivitta, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. ii. p. 440. n. 1 (1854). 



Smoky brown ; primaries above with slightly bluish costal border, interrupted just before 



