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AGATHIA. By L. B. Prout. 
gemma. 
magnifiea. 
uccedanea. 
angustili- 
mes. 
anti theta. 
carissima. 
prasina. 
hilar ata. 
hainanen- 
sis. 
latilimes. 
largita. 
quinaria. 
siren. 
diplo- 
chorda. 
tetraplo- 
chorda. 
A. gemma Swinh. (9 c) cannot be mistaken for any other species excepting magnifiea Moore, to 
which Hampson has sunk it! Hindtibia of $ not dilated. The ^ lias the markings much ampler, redder, mar¬ 
gined with bright yellow. Best known from the Khasis, but has also been taken in the Nagas and perhaps at 
Darjiling (coll. Lidderdale). 
A. magnifiea Moore, (9c) from Ceylon, is a rather large species, similar to gemma (9 c), but has the 
hindtibia strongly dilated, with hair-pencil and short terminal process. Cell-flap, as also in gemma, well developed. 
Lines of forewing more sinuous. The markings of the $ are shaped as in the <$ but much broader; dull purplish, 
not reddish as in gemma. 
A. succedanea fVarr. (9 d) is somewhat larger than magnifiea, the hair-pencil dense, partly dark- 
coloured. Markings more nearly as in gemma, but less slender, the subterminal band of forewing confluent in 
posterior half with a narrow terminal one. Sexual dimorphism much as in gemma. Common on Mount Kina¬ 
balu, the type locality. Also known from Gunong Ijau, Perak; Korintji, S.W. Sumatra (Pratt brothers). 
A. angustilimes Prout (9 d). Distinguishable from the 3 following by the narrower markings, rather 
less oblique central band, etc. Hindtibia of slender, without pencil. The figured $ was bred at Pusa (Bihar) 
from leaves of Karanda, and is undersized but otherwise typical. The species also occurs in the Nilgiris. 
A. antitheta sp. n. (9 d). Exceedingly similar to quinaria (9 d), rather less vividly coloured, the 
dark borders a little narrower and more unicolorous, that of the fore wing nearly always (in quinaria very 
rarely) containing a green spot in cellule 3, the proximal edge of this border less sinuous. Abdomen without 
the green spot. Structure as in angustilimes, the hindtibia'being undilated. Sikkim, 1300—2000 feet, 10 GS 
in the Tring Museum; also from cue Knasis. 
A. carissima Btlr. (= lacunaria lledem.) belongs chiefly to the Palaearctic Region and has been 
dealt with in Vol. 4 and figured on PI. 1 h of that volume. It reaches, however, to the borders of the Indo- 
Australian Region in West China and possibly enters Tibet. The hindtibia of the $ is not dilated. The cell- 
flap is developed, though not quite so strongly as in the following group. — prasina Swinh., not hilarata (to 
which prasina was formerly sunk in error) is the Khasi race of carissima, differing in the more deejrly coloured 
borders, that of the hindwing containing much more minute green spots towards the anal angle. 
A. hilarata Guen. (9 d) was founded on a damaged of uncertain origin (merely given as from ,,Central 
India ?“) and it is impossible to say with complete certitude which race it represents, or even whether it is 
the species which I have named antitheta. But I am fairly confident, from Oberthur’s figure of the type, 
that it represents the N. W. Indian foims of the species whereof I have hitherto regarded hainanensis and 
latilimes as races. The hindtibia of the 3 is moderately dilated, with a hair-pencil but without pronouced 
terminal process. Hindwing rarely with the green spot near anal angle which is developed in angustilimes. 
Smaller than antitheta, without subterminal green spot in cellule 3, the slender central band less extremely 
oblique posteriorly. — hainanensis Prout is more like angustilimes in the narrowed markings of the and the 
posteriorly less oblique central band, but has the leg-structure of hilarata. $ little different from that of hila¬ 
rata, the markings perhaps lighter, bringhter reddish. Abdomen in both sexes predominantly green above. 
Hainan and Hong Kong. latilimes Prout. Borders broader than in hilarata, at least 1 mm wide at the 
narrowest point on each side of the subapical green patch of the forewing and at hindmargin, at least 2 mm 
wide proximally to the green patch of hindwing. Forewing without subterminal white spot in cellule 3. The 
hindtibia! hair-pencil may be a little stronger. Described from Java, but now known also from Sumatra, the 
Malay Peninsula and Borneo. — ah. (?) largita ah. nov. has the borders about twice as broad. Kinabalu, 2 SB 
from the Oberthur collection, taken with 2 of nonnal latilimes. Possibly a separate species. 
A. quinaria Moore (9 e) is possibly another race of hilarata, larger, with the borders nearly as broad 
as in latilimes but more variegated, that of the forewing having a light brown admixture behind the middle 
and being moreover more sinuous at its proximal edge. Central band markedly sinuous, and with a charac¬ 
teristic widening anteriorly. Abdomen with a green spot on the 2nd tergite. Sikkim and Assam. Korintji, 
S. W. Sumatra (Pratt brothers). siren subsp. nov. (4b e) may be regarded provisionally as a race of quinaria 
as it agrees in the hindleg structure. Superficially almost exactly like an overgrown $ carissima, though the 
central band conserves the anterior widening of quinaria. Tibet: Vrianatong, type and another G in my 
collection; Tse-kou, 2 SS m the Oberthur collection, now in the British Museum. 
A. diplochorda Prout. Cell-flap and tibial pencil well developed. First band reduced to a line, slightly 
bent outward in middle. Submarginal band of forewing reddish, bordered with yellow, nowhere touching 
the distal margin, anteriorly forming a single, sinuous line, from the 3rd radial hindwards divaricating, con¬ 
tinuing double also throughout the greater part of the hindwing. N. Borneo: Kinabalu. 
A. fetraplochorda sp. n. (9 e). Close to diplochorda. Forewing with central band double, as in gemma, 
but less slender, the pale dividing-line broader; postmedian double throughout; a posterior yellow shade between 
