LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 47 



Female. Black. Proboscis testaceous. Palpi erect, rising 

 much higher than the vertex; third joint linear, rounded at the tip, 

 shorter and more slender than the second. Abdomen luteous above; 

 fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh segments with a black band on each 

 at the base ; tip black. Fore wings blackish blue, blackish purple 

 exteriorly ; a white point on the costa near the base and a white 

 discal point. Hind wings blackish purple, luteous towards the base. 

 Length of the body 12 lines; of the wings 32 lines. 



a, b. Aneiteum, New Hebrides. From Mr. Cuming's collection. 



Agarista jEQUALIS. 



Foem. Nigra; caput albo sex maculatum ; palpi subtus albidi, 

 basi ochracei; thoracis tegulce albido marginatce ; abdomen 

 apice peetusque ochracea, illius segmentis albido marginatis ; 

 alee anticcB gutta elongata strigaqve lata subobliqua albis dis- 

 calibus subhyalinis, guttis basalibus et costalibus cyaneis ; 

 postica? maculis duabus magnis cyaneo-albis subhyalinis, fim- 

 bria alba maculis quatuor elongatis nigris. 



Female. Black. Head with four white spots above on the 

 orbits of the eyes, two on the vertex and two in front. Palpi whitish 

 beneath, mostly ochraceous at the base ; third joint linear, almost 

 as long as the second. Tegulse of the thorax whitish bordered. 

 Pectus ochraceous. Abdomen ochraceous at the tip ; segments 

 with whitish hind borders. Anterior femora and fore tibiae clothed 

 with ochraceous hairs. Fore wings with a transversely elongated 

 white dot before the middle, and with a broad slightly oblique white 

 streak beyond the middle in the disk, both nearly hyaline ; some 

 irregular hlue dots near the base and along the costa, and some blue 

 speckles between the white streak and the exterior border; fringe 

 white at the tips and by the interior angle. Hind wings with two 

 large white blue-tinged nearly hyaline spots ; one in the disk, the 

 other between the first and the interior border ; fringe white, with 

 four elongated black spots. Wings beneath mostly blue towards the 

 base ; an interrupted and abbreviated blue band near the exterior 

 border in the hind wings. Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 

 24 lines. 



It is most allied to A. micacea, from which the above description 

 will sufficiently distinguish it. 



Am. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



