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Argyria obliquella, new species. 



Plat})tes obliquella Schaus, MS. 



Tips of palpi and front centrally impure white, fulvous brown elsewhere. 

 Silvery white, costa and inner margin narrowly ocher-brown ; fringe 

 brown ; an oblique, straight band from inner margin before middle to 

 costa near apex. Expanse, 1 7 mm. 



Cotypes, 7 specimens. No. 1 6247, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Castro, Parana, 

 Brazil (Schaus collection). 



Argyria schausella, new species. 



Palpi and vertex ocher-brown, front denuded but apparently also 

 ocher-brown. Silvery white ; thorax with a dorsal stripe ; fore wing with 

 narrow costal and inner borders of ocher scales ; a straight mesial band 

 expanding on costa and margin ; a subapical triangle, cut by a faint white 

 line ; termen and fringe ocher and brown. Expanse, 1 9 mm. 



Type, No. 1 6248, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Juan Vinas, Costa Rica, Jan- 

 uary (W. Schaus). 



Argyria jonesella, new species. 



Palpi long, fulvous, white at tip ; front conically protuberant. Silvery 

 white ; most of collar and disk of thorax ocher-brown ; fore wing with 

 costal, inner eind terminal ocher-brown margins, the inner rather broad 

 with a tooth at outer fourth ; a broad oblique band from inner third of 

 margin to costa beyond middle, curving a little and ending in the subapi- 

 cal tooth. Expanse, 19 mm. 



Type, No. I 6249, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Castro, Parana, Brazil (Schaus 

 collection). 



Argyria mesogramtna, new species. 



Palpi, front and vertex ocher, with patches of brown, a few whitish 

 scales on front below. Fore wing silvery white ; median band erect, 

 straight, brown, washed with ocher especially without ; costal subapical 

 triangle cut by a white line ; a terminal dark brown line ; fringe violaceous 

 brown. Hind wing with traces of terminal line. Expanse, 16-18 mm. 



Cotypes, 9 specimens, No. I 6250, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Castro, Parana, 

 Brazil (Schaus coDection). 



Possibly this is subtilis Felder, but Felder's figure gives no indication 

 of the color of the front of the head. 



