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margin ; terminal line black, continuous, followed by a pale line in base 

 of fringe. In the allotype the markings are fainter. Wing expanse 

 18 mm. 



Sabine River Ferry, Louisiana, June 20, 1917, tvf>c $ ; 

 Schriever, Louisiana, June 17. 1917, allotype 2 . Types, Cornell 

 University, No. 596. There is a female from Canada in the 

 Barnes collection, but I have no notes on it. 



ARGYRACTIS Hampson, OXYELOPHILA, new subgenus. 



Similar to those North American species formerly in Elo- 

 phila, which are now placed by Hampson in Argyractis (fiili- 

 calis, bifascialis, etc.). Fore wing (Plate V, figure 3) strongly 

 falcate, hind wing with A/3 lost (as in other Argyractis), M2 

 and Cn\ stalked. Labial, and in the typical species maxillary, 

 palpi longer and more slender than in Argyractis, the max- 

 illaries flattened, and acute only in side view. Mid and hind 

 tibiae and midtarsi flattened and fringed with hair-scales in 

 the female, as in A. fnlicalis and bifascialis; spurs fully devel- 

 oped. Fore wing with R3 typically lost, but distinct in A. 

 (O.) meianograpta, from Demerara, which also has reduced 

 maxillary palpi. 



A. harpalis, lanccolalis, nccomalis and ticonalis also obviously 

 belong to this subgenus. None of the species have the ocellate 

 spots on the hind wing present in all the Northern species of 

 Argyractis. 



Apparently Hampson had an aberrant specimen of A. bifas- 

 cialis, as he indicates that it has M2 and Citl stalked; in a 

 considerable series that I have examined of both the type and 

 the form kcarfottalis, the veins are always separate. 



Genotype: Argyractis (O.vyclophila) callista n. sp. 



Argyractis (Oxyelophila) callista, new species. 



Similar to A. harpalis Snellen, from Central America (Tijd. v. Ent. 

 43: pi. 17, f. 1). R3 lost (stalked in harpalis, according to Snellen). 

 White ; front with a black dot at base of antenna ; abdomen with a black 

 transverse band on base of second segment, nearly or quite interrupted 

 in the middle ; fore coxa and femur with brown streaks, tibia blackish, 

 tarsus and middle and hind legs slightly infuscated. 



Extreme base of costa with a black point; a black subbasal dot on 

 fold, as well as the ones on costa and near inner margin ; antemedial 

 line practically complete, right-angled on Sc and oblique to inner margin, 



