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Head yellow-white. Forehead, vertex and antennae black. Thorax 

 black, with two transverse lines in front and the sides behind yel- 

 lowish. Legs black, spotted with white, densely clothed with fulvous 

 hairs at the base of the coxa?. Abdomen black ; last segment bright 

 fulvous. Female with markings rather more blue than in the male." 

 — Doubleday. Length of the wings 21 lines. 



a, b. Port Essington. From Mr. Gould's collection. 

 c—e. New Holland. Presented by the late Earl of Derby. 



12. Agarista Nov.e Hibernije. 



Anus fulvus ; alee nigra, subtus fasciis chalybeis micantibus ; an- 

 tiQce apice maculaque albis ,vunctis maculisque sparsis chalybeis 

 micantibus ; posticce basi late chalybea-micante. 



Agarista Novae Hiberniae, Boisd. Voy. de V Astrolabe, Pt. 1, Lep. 

 128, 10. 



New Ireland. 



Var. ? Cupreo-nigra ; caput, pedes thoracisque vitta alba ; abdomen 

 canum, subtus apiceque luteum ; alee apice margineque postico 

 albo varia ; anticce cyaneo guttata, postica basim versus sub - 

 caruleo-albida, fasciaque cliscali abbreviata subarcuata extus 

 tridentata albida, dimidio basali subtus e maculis cyaneis 

 arcuatim vittato. 



Very nearly allied to A. Leonora, but more slender ; the mark- 

 ings of the same colour, but differently arranged. Length of the 

 body 7 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



a. New Holland. Presented by the late Earl of Derby. 



13. Agarista Prasuni. 



Thorax transversim jiavescente strigatus ; alee antica nigro-cyanea, 

 puncto medio, fasciis abbreviatis costalibus, posticis, internisque 

 flavescentibus ; postica fuse a ; mar gine late Jiavescente. 



Agarista Praslini, Boisd. Voy. de V Astrolabe, Pt. 1, Lep. 179, 11. 



Port Praslin, New Ireland. 



14. Agarista? Megisto. 



Ala antica fusca micantes, venis albidis fasciisque duabus albis ; 

 posticce fuscce fimbria alba. 



