COMOCRUS; AGARISTA. By Dr. K. Jordan. 
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with traces of a cell-spot in the North-West Australia; Tunney obtained a number of specimens in the 
North Province of South Australia west of the gulf of Carpentaria in January and February. 
C. epicharita Turn. Antennae black. Markings of head, pronotum and abdomen orange, apex of epicharita. 
abdomen (3) and legs black, fore tibia with some yellow hairs. Markings of wings white, fringes white only 
at apex; cell of forewing with one spot only; band of hindwing very broad. — Cape York; not known 
to me in nature. 
11. Genus : Comocrus Jonl. 
Frons with conical process which bears a raised ring at the truncate apex. Eyes naked. Antennae 
distinctly incrassate between middle and apex. Segment 3 of palpi long and porrect, 1 and 2 with long hair 
beneath. Mid and hind tibiae likewise long-hairy; tarsi smooth, with 3 rows of spines on the underside, segments 
1—4 with some additional spines near the median row. Forewing with areole, subcostal 2 far beyond it and 
5 from its apex or a little more distal, radials 2 and 3 closer together than radial 3 and median 1, median 
2 distant from apex of cell; in hindwing medians 1 and 2 closer together at cell than at margin. —- —- 
Larva with single long hairs which are widened at the tip. — One Australian species. 
C. behri Angas (= casuarina Scott). Black, head and thorax with grey longitudinal stripes, apex 
of abdomen and the hair on the coxae and legs orange. Forewing with 5 transverse bands, of which 4 is short 
and 5 twice angulate and thin; moreover, thin vein-streaks before the margin. Hindwing with a discal band 
twice angulate and proximally to it one, two or three spots. All these markings yellowish white and be¬ 
neath larger than above. In f. flexuosa Walk, the markings are absent from the upperside of the hind- flexuosa. 
wing; in f. behri Angas (2f) the band of the hindwing is separated into spots; and in contorta Walk., behri. 
which is the usual form, the markings of the hindwing are well-developed. Larva ringed with glossy contorta. 
black and white, head, pronotum and legs orange, the penultimate segment red above, spiracles in small 
white spots; at rest head and thorax are held curved up- and backwards, and when disturbed the larva 
defends itself by ejecting from the mouth a greenish yellow liquid. Pupa in a rather hard cocoon made of 
bits of bark, dry leaves and earth. On Loranthus, a parasitic plant, and on Casuarina. •—- New South 
Wales and West Australia. 
12. Genus: A gar is ta Leach. 
Differs from Comocrus particularly in the tibiae being smoothly scaled-hairy, the second subcostal 
of the forewing branching off from the areole, radial 3 of forewing nearer to median 1 than to radial 2, and in 
radial 3 and median 1 of hindwing being on a short stalk. — Larva ringed with black and white, bearing 
single long hairs widened at the apex. — One Papuan species, which goes westward to Timor. 
A. agricola. One of the prettiest Agaristids. In the G the forewing bears a short blue-white basal 
streak which is continued across the posterior portion of the thorax, while in the $ the basal area and 
the whole thorax are bluish yellow-white. The coxae, underside of femora and usually a band or spot before 
the anal angle of the hindwing are carmine. The apex of the abdomen yellow. Larva white with a black 
belt in the centre of each segment; head, legs, a belt on segment 4 and a large dorsal patch of segment 
11 orange-red; shortly before pupation the white colour turns first into pale yellow and then into deep 
orange. On Vitis heterophylla, abundant during the summer. Several geographical races, which differ espe¬ 
cially in the $9- — agricola Don. (= picta Leach ) (2e). and $ with a macular orange band before ar/rieola. 
the centre of the forewing and another beyond the centre; hindwing with red band in front of the anal 
angle. The markings variable in extent, and in the $ some of the orange discal spots often absent. New 
South Wales and Queensland. — biformis Bull. The red band of the hindwing much narrower and also biformis. 
shorter than in agricola the yellow spots of the forewing paler in the A, and in the $ of the same or nearly 
the same colour as the basal patch; fringes of forewing partly white also in the middle. North-West Australia: 
Port Darwin and North Province of South Australia; also on Timor-laut. — daemonis Bull. (2e). $ like hi- dnemonis. 
formis, but the proximal yellow spots of the fore wing smaller. $ only with blue markings on the upper- and 
underside of the forewing apart from the light basal patch; the red band of the hindwing absent from both 
sides or very short. British and German New Guinea. — timorensis Rotlis. The bluish white basal streak timorensis. 
of the forewing broad, the three antemedian spots smaller than discal spots 1, 2 and 4, all yellowish white, 
only the cell-spot rather more distinctly yellow. Hindwing with a blue-grey band instead of the red one. 
9 not known. Dutch Timor, discovered by Doherty in November-December. 
