540 l'lIAL.ENOIDIDiE. 



basal area and some blue suffusion above base of inner margin ; 

 minute acute medial silvery blue spots below costa, in cell, and 

 above vein 1 ; a short silvery blue postmedial streak below costa 

 and a narrow oblique maculate band between veins 7 and 2 ; cilia 

 white at tips at apex. Hind wing black-brown with a chocolate 

 tinge ; some silvery blue at base followed by a large oblique ellipti- 

 cal white patch slightly edged by silvery blue scales-in, beyond, and 

 below the cell, extending above vein 1 to well beyond middle ; cilia 

 white at tips from vein 7 to discal fold. Underside of both wings 

 with the basal area silvery blue. 



Hab. Dutch N. Guinea, Oetakwa P.. Snow Mts. (Meek), type f 

 d" in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 46 millim. 



*49 c. Odice capiens. (Plate LXX. fig. 14.) 



Argyrolepidia sequalis capiens, Jord. Nov. Zool.xi. p. 446 (1904). 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen black tinged with blue ; palpi 

 orange at base, white in front ; sides of irons and vertex of head, 

 and gense white ; tegula? with some white scales at middle and edges, 

 patagia with white spots ; front of pectus. coxa-, and fringes of fore 

 femora orange, tibiae and tarsi with white points ; abdomen with 

 white segmental lines, the anal tuft orange. Fore wing black- 

 brown ; subbasal blue points below costa and cell ; an oblique ante- 

 medial series of small blue spots ; a white spot in middle of cell 

 and rather irregular discoidal bar ; postmedial and subterminal series 

 of small blue spots, the former oblique below vein 3 ; cilia tipped 

 with white at apex and above tornus. Hind wing black-brown 

 tinged with blue ; a rounded bluish white spot just beyond the disco- 

 cellulars ; cilia chequered white and black ; the underside with the 

 base of costa and inner area blue, some small spots between the 

 white patch and inner margin and two postmedial spots below 

 costa and one below vein 4. 



I lab. Solomox Is., Treasury I. (Meek), type f 6 in Coll. Roth- 

 schild. Exp. 50 millim. 



* 40 d. Odice unimacula. (Plate LXX. fig. 15.) 

 Argyrolepidia unimacula, Lower, Tr. E. Soc. S.Austr. xxvii. p. 29 (1903). 



<S . Head and thorax red-brown ; palpi with the 2nd joint white 

 in front; a white line behind the eyes and spots behind base of 

 antennae; pectus yellowish white; legs banded dark brown and 

 white; (abdomen wanting). Fore wing red-brown; a slight 

 whitish discoidal lnnnle ; an oblique white band from costa beyond 

 middle narrowing to a point at tornus and with somewhat sinuous 

 edges. Bind wing black-brown with a large somewhat irregularly 

 elliptical white spol in, beyond, and below lower end of cell ; a series 

 of white points on tin' cilia; the underside with short diffused white 

 streaks from base on costa and in and below the cell. 



Wab. Queensland, Mackay, type t <$ in Coll. Lower. Exp. 

 Id millim. 



