3 o A. WATSON 



Seven of the ten species of Agnidra are endemic to the Indo-Chinese Subregion, 

 specularia is shared between the Indo-Chinese and Indian Subregions, scabiosa is 

 shared between the Indo-Chinese Subregion and the Manchurian Subregion, and 

 fuscilinea is endemic to the Malayan Subregion. (See Table i.) 



Certain tentative species groupings can be made in this genus : specularia, 

 vinacea and corticata form one group ; scabiosa, fuscilinea, fulvior, furva, hoenei, and 

 probably discispilaria, a second group. The latter could be subdivided by ex- 

 tracting fulvior, furva and hoenei as one unit, discispilaria as a second, and scabiosa 

 and fuscilinea as a third. On the evidence of the total external and genitalic 

 characters studied, the species fenestra is probably most satisfactorily placed in 

 Agnidra in spite of the venational and antennal difference between it and the rest 

 of the genus. 



Key to the species of AGNIDRA 

 Males 



Antenna uniserrate ; postmedial fascia on upper surface of fore and hind wing 



straight (PI. 2, fig. 307) ; Sc + 7?i anastomosed with Rs distal to cell in hind wing ; 



7th sternum of abdomen unmodified ...... fenestra (p. 34) 



Antenna bipectinate ; postmedial fascia on upper surface of fore and hind wings 



straight, lunulate or sinuous ; Sc + Ri approximated to Rs distal to cell in hind 



wing ; 7th sternum of abdomen modified ....... 2 



Postmedial fascia on upper surface of fore wing straight or nearly so (e.g. PI. 1, fig. 305) 3 



Postmedial fascia of upper surface of fore wing lunulate or sinous, not straight . . 5 



Prothoracic femur with large brush organ. Genitalia : valve not elongate : uncus 



bifid ........... fuscilinea (p. 44) 



Prothoracic femur without large brush organ. Genitalia : valve elongate ; uncus 



simple ............. 4 



Area of pale medial patches on fore wing as in PI. 1, figs. 303, 304. Genitalia : 



gnathus not heavily spinose (Text-fig. 50) .... corticata (p. 39) 



Area of pale medial patches on fore wing as in PI. 1, fig. 305). Genitalia : gnathus 



heavily spinose (Text-fig. 52) ....... vinacea (p. 40) 



Area of pale patches on hind wing as in (PI. 2, fig. 306). Genitalia : uncus absent 



(Text-fig. 41) ......... specularia (p. 36) 



Area of pale patches small (e.g. PI. 2, fig. 309). Genitalia : uncus present . . 6 



Pale patches on each wing encircled by ring of dark scales (PI. 2, fig. 308) 



discispilaria (p. 44) 

 Pale patches on each wing not encircled by ring of dark scales .... 7 



Transverse fasciae lunulate on both wings ........ 8 



Transverse fasciae non-lunulate on both wings. (PI. 1, figs. 301, 302) scabiosa (p. 42) 



Prothoracic femur with well-developed brush-organ. Genitalia as in Text-figs. 68-71 



hoenei (p. 31) 

 Prothoracic femur without brush-organ. Genitalia not as in hoenei ... 9 



Fore wing moderately falcate (PI. 2, fig. 311) ; ground-colour of upper surface 



brownish buff. Genitalia as in Text-figs. 30-33 .... furva (p. 33) 



Fore wing weakly falcate (PI. 2, fig. 310) ; ground-colour of upper surface buff. 



Genitalia as in Text-figs. 25-28 ....... fulvior (p. 31) 



