AGARISTA PICTA. 
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A. picta is an elegant insect, measuring about 
two inches and a half between the tips of the 
wings. The fore wings aro black, with a short 
longitudinal bar of pale green scales at the base, 
continuous with a bar of the same colour at the 
hinder part of the thorax ; behind this is a curved 
and rather indistinct fascia of bluish scales, which is 
succeeded by a large oval orange-coloured spot, at 
some distance from which is an irregular row of six 
oval spots of the same colour ; behind this a slight 
fascia of bluish scales, which is indistinctly con- 
tinued in a serpentine form beneath both the orange 
bars so as to appear continuous with the middle bar 
of the hind wings ; still nearer the apex of the wings 
aro several patches of greenish scales, and the ex- 
treme tip is white. The hind wings are black, 
with a centra 1 cross bar of greenish-blue scales ; and 
there is a dark pink fascia extending from the anal 
angle half-way across the wing. The thorax is 
black, spotted in front with pale green, and having 
a pale green transverse fascia at the base, and a 
broader one at the apex of the tippets. The abdo- 
men is black, with a terminal tuft of orange- coloured 
hairs. The palpi, as well as the hairs round the 
eyes, are white : the breast and thighs clothed with 
long red hairs. The four anterior tibiae have an 
orange line externally, and the tips of the tarsal 
joints are annulated with white. The anal appa- 
ratus of the specimen hero figured is remarkable; 
consisting of two very large valves arising from the 
extremity of the body and recurved ; between these 
