HYLODES. — AGONISTA. 46*5 



marginal series of specks ; fore wing with traces of ante- and post- 

 medial waved lines and brown-centred ochreous lunule at end of 

 cell ; hind wing with traces of anteinedial waved line. Underside 

 with crenulate medial line ; hind wing with black cell-spot and 

 spot at middle of costa. 



5 . Pale ochreous brown, with some dark brown suffusion inside 

 the oblique line, which is double ; some specimens with a black 

 spot on centre of inner margin of fore wing. 



Larva with two pointed dorsal tubercles on anal somite ; olive- 

 green, speckled with fuscous and paler below ; dorsal and lateral 

 bands of black streaks ; some greenish-white blotches on back 

 and sides ; the stigmata black ; the tubercles reddish. Food-plant 

 Acanthads. 



Hah. Formosa ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Java. 

 Exp. 84-90 millim. 



Sect. II. Hind wing with the outer margin hardly crenulate 

 and but slightly angled at vein 4. 



2410. Hylodes drylla, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 209, pi. 24, fig. 10. 

 Hulodes satumioides, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 209 ; C. fy S. no. 2577. 

 Hypopyra restorans, Wlk. Cat. xiv, p. 1328 ; C. fy S, no. 2576. 



S . Differs from caranea in being ochreous brown ; the head 

 and collar dark. Fore wing uniform, with the postmedial line 

 more oblique towards inner margin, often dentate and with fuscous 

 suffusion beyond it. 



2 paler ochreous brown, with no dark suffusion inside the post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. N.W. Himalayas ; Assam ; Calcutta ; Burma ; Perak. 

 Exp., 6 72, $ 76 millim. 



Genus AGONISTA. 



Agonista, Rogenhqf, Feld. Reis. Nov., Lep. iv, pi. 113, fig. 5 (1864-67). 

 Lygniodes, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 123 (1852), prseocc. 



Type, A. Tiypoleuca, Guen. 



Range. Himalayas ; Nilgiris ; Travancore ; Ceylon ; Assam ; 

 Burma; Malacca; Borneo; Java. 



Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 3rd of 

 moderate length ; antennae simple ; thorax and abdomen smoothly 

 scaled ; mid tibiae spined ; hind tibiae slightly fringed with hair. 

 Fore wing with the costa arched ; the apex slightly produced and 

 acute. Hind wing with the cell very short ; vein 5 from near 

 lower angle ; 6 much curved. 



2411. Agonista hypoleuca, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 125; C. $ S. no. 2495. 



c? . Black-brown, shot with purple ; cilia of both wings white. 

 Underside of thorax and abdomen ochreous ; the wings white ; 

 fore wing striated with brown, and the basal, costal, and apical 

 areas brown ; hind wing slightly speckled with brown, and some 

 brown near apex. 



