NOTE ON THE AMERICAN SILVERY SPECIES OF ARGYRIA 1 1 1 



Wings limpid, with the venation typical of the genus ; extreme base of 

 wing honey yellow, followed by a broad dark brown fascia extending 

 nearly to the apex of the second basal cell ; subcostal 2uid first veins fer- 

 ruginous, the others dark brown. 



Legs dull ferruginous, with fine very short and close yellowish pubes- 

 cence eind short black bristles ; tarsi becoming black distaUy. 



Length : Body about 1 2 mm., wing I 3 mm. 



Female : Similar to the meile, but differing in the sexual characters. 

 The brown vestiture of the mesonotum, scutellum, and abdomen inclines 

 to ferruginous, but the abdomen shows the same tuftings of dull creauny 

 heiirs. 



Frontera, Tabasco, Mexico ; April 1 4 and 2 I (C. H. T. Townsend). 



Type: Cat. No. 16254. U. S. Nat. Mus. 



One male and one female. The color of the body vestiture, as in 

 other Bombyliidae, appears to be subject to considerable variation. The 

 unusually broad deep brown fascia near the base of the wing should 

 serve to identify this species without difficulty. 



NOTE ON THE AMERICAN SILVERY SPECIES OF 



ARGYRIA 



{LepidopUra, Pyralida) 

 By HARRISON G. DYAR 



The American species of Arg^ria Hiibner, that are known to me, 

 which have silvery white ground color, separate by the following table. 

 Sir G. F. Hampson listed them under the name Plat^tes (Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 943-948, 1895). A. croceicindella Walker is not before 

 me. Hampson lists it as with long palpi, like auratella and jonesella, 

 from which WaJker's description separates it. A. interrupta Zeller 

 would faU with multifacta and xanthoguma in the table, but the costal 

 triangular mark is more nearly apical, and touches the dentate marginal 

 line. A. subtilis Felder is apparently the same as, or very near, divisella 

 Walker. A. mesodonta Zeller would fall, from the description, with 

 tingurialis, but seems distinct by the different color of the markings. A. 

 sordipes Zeller is, no doubt, a southern race of nivalis Drury, as Zeller 

 himself indicated. 



