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AGATHIA. By L. B. Prout. 
are of moderate thickness, almost uniformly cylindrical, the head bilobed, the prothorax projecting slightly 
over it and bearing on each side a small and not very sharp triangular prominence anteriorly; yellow-brown, 
mottled or streaked with reddish, appearing to the naked eye uniform in colour. 
intercissa. A. intercissa Walk., (9 c) from Ceylon, is the smallest Indian species and further differs from the forms 
of lycaenaria with narrow or macular markings in the more regular postmedian band of the forewing (not enlarged 
in the middle), the feeble white mark before the tail of the hindwing and other details. Structure similar. Known 
also from Travancore. 
distributa. A. distributa T. P. Luc. (= disconnecta Warr.) (9 c) also agrees in structure with lycaenaria and it 
may possibly be, as Turner believes, that we have to do with a single polymorphic species. Differs chiefly 
from hedia in the reduction of the postmedian line to short streaks or pairs of dots, the green ground-colour 
being, consequently interposed between the weak white spot which bounds the tail of the hindwing and the dash at 
. papuensis. the 3rd radial and 1st median. Abdomen dorsally green to behind middle. Queensland. — papuensis subsp. nov. 
has the spots on an average slightly less small and seems to differ constantly in that the postmedian dot on 
the abdominal margin of the hindwing is placed nearer to the anal angle, being 2 mm distant in papuensis, 
3 mm in distributa. British New Guinea, from the coast up to 2500 feet in the Hydrographer Mountains; 
aquilonis. also from St. Aignan. The type is in the Tring Museum, <$ from Milne Bay. — aquilonis subsp. nov. Spots 
again a little larger, especially in the §, where they are much redder than in the rf; underside sharply marked. 
Manus, Admiralty Islands, 4 pairs in Tring Museum. 
sinuifasda. A. sinuifascia sp. nov. Expanse 36—38 mm. Closely similar to distributa, perhaps another subspecies, 
in spite of the different postmedian line. Markings red in both sexes, though somewhat brighter in the $, quite 
narrow (especially in the $) but confluent into slender sinuous bands, the postmedian of the forewing running 
in an outwardly convex curve from a spot in cellule 3 to the extremity of the 2nd median, the postmedian of 
the hindwing joined to termen by a streak along the 3rd radial, the terminal spot between this streak and the 
broader one at the 1st median green proximally and white distally. New Hanover, February-March 1923, 2 pairs 
in Tring Museum. 
A. asterias is geographically as well as sexually variable. Structure about as in lycaenaria and distri¬ 
buta. Markings more extended than in distributa, subapical band of forewing not or scarcely interrupted, running 
to the distal, not to the hind margin. Abdominal margin of hindwing reddened. Abdomen dorsally predo- 
asterias. minantly red-brown. Markings in the much darker than in the in. most forms narrower. — asterias Meyr. 
Expanse 32—38 mm, very rarely attaining the latter measurement. Bands on an average narrow, especially 
diversilinea. in the S', rarely very strongly swollen into spots. Queensland. — diversilinea Warr. (9 b) Generally much larger 
(42—48 mm) but very variable in size. otherwise similar to asterias, $ with the markings much broader, 
alternately swollen and constricted. Described from Fergusson Island, but distributed in British New Guinea, the 
ampla. D’Entrecasteaux, Louisiades and Trobriands. — anipla Prout. As large as the preceding, or still larger; markings 
further broadened, especially in the <$, the subapical and terminal bands of the forewing connected or almost 
connected along the 3rd radial, enclosing a large round green spot between this and the 1st median. Dutch 
New Guinea: Arfak Mountains, Wandammens, etc.; Ceram. In the Snow Mountains transitional towards 
irregularis, diversilinea. — irregularis Prout. 39—42 mm. Both sexes with abdomen partly green, the mediodorsal stripe 
remaining reddish. Central band of forewing moderately broad, its swellings strong; subapical band threadlike 
between the 2nd and 3rd radials, then suddenly widened into a blotch which is broadly confluent with the 
narrow, irregular terminal band. Hindwing with the narrow marginal band swollen into a conspicuous spot 
pisina. near the anal angle. Key Islands. — - pisina Btlr. (9 c) represents asterias on the Solomons, but may possibly 
be a separate species. The 3rd joint of the $ palpus is perhaps slightly longer. Spots generally enlarged, but 
in the $ not, in the $ scarcely, consolidated into bands as in a. ampla, the yellow at their edgens more developed. 
White spot at tail of hindwing oval or roundish rather than linear. Both sexes on an average rather less dark. 
dimota. —- dimota Prout, from Fiji, is only known from a single $, similar to pisina\ possibly further material will prove 
it synonymous. Forewing with basal patch broadening anteriorly, central band broken into 3 large, well 
separated spots, the central one prolonged distad, the posterior one trilobed; subapical band interrupted 
between the 2nd and 3rd radials. 
albicurva- A. albicurvatura Prout is a rather small species, with the thorax predominantly green, the abdomen 
turn, predominantly reddish, the bands reddish, very narrow, especially on the forewing, where the inner is pretty 
straight, attenuated er interrupted at both folds, the postmedian gently curved, in its posterior half confluent 
with the termen, a slender and gently curved white line bounding it proximally. On the hindwing a correspon¬ 
ding white line bounds the postmedian band but is straightish, in its posterior half crenulate. hindtibia with 
dense light-brown pencil of hair. Celebes: Dongala, S. of Palos Bay. 
furtiva. A. furtiva Prout. Similar to albicurvatura, on an average rather less small. Bands of fore wing more 
interrupted, broadening between the interruptions, the postmedian joining the terminal more steeply, so that 
