1152 CATALOGUE OV 



Genus AGAMANA. 



Fcem. Corpus robustum, laeve. Proboscis brevis. Palpi 

 compressi, lseves, subdecu'mbentes, capitis latitudine paullo longi- 

 ores ; articulus 2us subarcuatus, supra convexus ; 3us obtusus, bre- 

 vissimus. Abdomen alas posticas vix superans. Pedes robusti, 

 Iseres ; calcaria longa, sat valida. Alse antiise lata?, elongata?, sub- 

 acute, margine exteriore subobliquo. 



Female. Body stout, smooth. Proboscis short. Palpi com- 

 pressed, smooth, slightly decumbent, a little longer than the breadth 

 of the head; second joint slightly curved, convex above; third 

 obtuse, very short, not more than one-sixth of the length of the 

 second. Abdomen hardly extending beyond the hind wings. Legs 

 stout, smooth ; spurs long, rather stout. Wings broad, elongate. 

 Fore wings slightly acute; second inferior vein as near to the third 

 as to the first ; fourth not remote ; exterior border slightly convex 

 and oblique. 



Agamana cavatalis. 



Fcem. Cinereo-cervina, subtus rufescens ; aim anticce discs pal' 

 lide cinereo, plaga magna excavata, gutta antica lituraque 

 exteriore viridi-fuseis, costa pallide rufa ; posticce pallide fus' 

 cescentes, dimidio basali lineaque exteriore pallide cinereis. 



Female. Cinereous fawn-colour, reddish beneath. Tips of the 

 tarsal joints and of the spurs pale cinereous. Fore wings reddish 

 towards the exterior border, with a pale cinereous disk and with a 

 large greenish brown patch, which occupies two-thirds of the length 

 of the interior border and forms an angle in front, on the outer side 

 of which it is much excavated; a greenish brown dot in front of the 

 excavated part, and an irregular greenish brown mark adjoining 

 the exterior undulating border of the pale disk ; costa pale red. 

 Hind wings pale brownish, pale cinereous on half the surface from 

 the base, and with a pale cinereous line beyond the middle. Length 

 .of the body 6 lines; of the wings 16 lines. 



a. Australia. From Mr. Strange' s collection. 



Genus ALUACA. 



Fcem. Corpus gracile. Fasciculus frontalis porrectus, acutus. 

 Proboscis longiuscula. Palpi pilosi, subangulati, oblique ascend- 

 entes, capitis latiludine vix breviores ; articulus 3us linearis, obtusus, 



