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complete scries of grey-brown striae, which are usually only marked or suggested 

 on the abdominal margin. 



I Underside the same. 



1 cf from Hnancabamba, Cerro de Pasco, Pern, 0500 ft. (Bottger). 



188. Argyrotonie rnetallicata spec. nov. 



Foremng : dark mouse-colour, thickly dusted with shining metallic scales; 

 cell-spot oval, black in a yellow ring, the costal half of the black centre concealed 

 by a boss of metallic scales, the whole placed in a larger rounded brown shade, 

 of which the lower half is covered with a bed of bright metallic scales ; beyond the 

 cell-spot the metallic scales arrange themselves into a curved wavy-edged belt 

 followed by a broad band of chocolate-brown, clear itself of bright scales, but 

 edged outwardly by a shining bluish silvery line curving from costa before apex 

 to anal angle ; the extreme margin and fringe paler ; base of fringe rufous. 



Hindwing : with centre marked by a large blotch of metallic scales followed 

 by a straight lustrous belt from apex to anal angle ; the margin with five embossed 

 spots, the three below middle large, the two above it qnite small; margin, especially 

 about apex, rufous-tinged. 



Underside creamy white with a bluish tinge; both wings with a smoky brown 

 submarginal fascia, very broad in forewing and narrow in hindwing; forewing with 

 a large black discal spot. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen mouse-colour; face and palpi browner. 



Expanse of wings : 30 mm. 



1 J from R. Cayapas, N.W. Ecuador (Flemming & Miketta). 



Nearest to A. tencbrosa Warr. 



180. Berberodes fulvicomosa spec. nov. 



S. Closely allied to B. cassiteris Warr., from which it will be found to differ 

 as follows : The dark margiual border of forewing is wider, and contains a sinus 

 on its inner edge between veins 3 and 4, which does not exist in cassiteris ; similarly 

 in the hindwing the border from apex to vein 4 is wider, but stops short therej 

 whereas in cassiteris it is continued narrowly to the anal angle, followed by a dark 

 fringe ; in fulvicomosa the fringe below vein 4 is, like the margin itself, white ; the 

 anal angle is more amply lobed, and clothed and fringed with gilded yellow hair 

 scales, instead of black, the black blotch on the abdominal margin above the lube 

 being much smaller, with the tuft of black hairs less developed. Further, the 

 silvery washing of the outer two-thirds of the hindwing is neither so dense nor 

 so brilliant, the wing membrane remaining semi-transparent. 



The costa of forewing is not so rigidly straight as in cassiteris, and (he 

 outer margin, instead of being uniformly curved, is more vertical to vein 3, thcu 

 visibly inbent. 



Expanse of wings : 27 mm. 



1 S from R. Huaeamayo, Carabaya, Peru, 3100 ft., June 1904, dry season 

 (Oekenden), taken under identical conditions with a S of the same size of 

 B. cassiteris. No ? of either species were received from this locality; but from 

 La Oroya, It. Inambari, caught in September of the same year, come two ? ?, 

 slightly differing inter se, but both, judging from the bend in outer margin of 



