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AGAEISTID^. 
Agarista ephyra. (Plate IV. fig. 4.) 
Agarista ephyra, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 42. n. 6 (1854). 
Smaller than the preceding; primaries with five spots on the basal area; postmedian 
baud not so strongly angulated ; spot on secondaries large and distinct. Expanse of wings 
1 inch 7-9 lines. 
Tasmania. 
Agarista affinis. (Plate IV. fig. 3.) 
Agarista affinis, Boisduval, Voy. de V Astrolabe, i. Lep. p. 177. n. 8. 
Black-brown ; primaries with basal half yellow-speckled ; a more or less interrupted 
oblique postmedian band ; a bisinuated discal series of minute white dots ; yellow spots on the 
fringe at apex and external angle ; secondaries with the fringe yellow-spotted ; body blackish ; 
head and thorax varied with whitish ; abdomen with whitish edges to the segments ; anal tuft 
fulvous. Legs below varied with fulvous ; primaries without the basal yellow speckling or 
white discal dots ; secondaries with a dot at end of cell and a discal series grey. Expanse of 
wings 1 inch 5 lines. 
Australia. 
Agarista novae-Mberniae. (Plate IV. fig. 5.) 
Agarista novse-hiberniaB, Boisduval, Voy. de V Astrolabe, i. Lip. p. 128. n. 10. 
Primaries above black ; the base of the costa and the discoidal cell spotted with pale 
blue ; internal area transversely streaked with pale creamy yellow ; an irregular, externally 
tridentate, pale yellow, postmedian band ; a discal series of pale blue dots : secondaries with 
the basal half greenish grey, external half black-brown ; fringe spotted with white : head 
and thorax black, spotted with pale yellow ; abdomen grey ; anal tuft fulvous, with black 
dorsal spot. Primaries below without internal transverse streaks, discoidal blue spots united 
into a patch ; postmedian band white ; no discal dots ; fringe white at apex and external 
angle, as above : secondaries white, with a greenish tinge ; a transverse black spot closing the 
cell ; a broad external black band, crossed by a series of blue spots ; pectus white, venter 
fulvous. Expanse of wings 1 inch 7 lines. 
Australia. 
' Agarista leonora. (Plate IV. fig. 6.) 
Agarista leonora, Doubleday, Stokes's Discov. Austral. App. i. p. 518. 
Wings black : primaries streaked with pale blue ; a transverse oblique spot just beyond 
the middle of the cell, a trifid spot beyond it, and four discal spots (the third elongated, 
large, on first median interspace) pale yellow ; four bluish discal spots in pairs beyond the 
yellow spots : secondaries greyish at base ; costal area cupreous ; a discoanal macular pale 
