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532. Argina pulchra. n. sp. : PI. iii. f. 5. 



<J Antennje and last joint of palpi black, remainder of palpi, head, 

 body, and hind-wings bright chrome yellow ; fore-wings bright scarlet 

 slightly tinged with yellow, spots deep black, spots in thorax and 

 abdomen as in y?. syringa and A. argus : spots in both wings as in 

 A. argus (Kollar) ; but the spots in fore- wings much larger and 

 surrounded with yellow, not white, as in that species. Underside 

 of a uniform bright chrome yellow, the black spots in the wings very 

 prominent, but without the rings in the fore-wings, body spotted with 

 black as in A. argus, legs brown. 



Expanse of wings 2^ inches. 



a. Philippines (type). 



A very brightly coloured insect nearest to A. argus (Kollar), but 

 not like any species in the genus. 



533. Argina cribraria. 



Phalana cribraria. Clerck : Icon. Ins., ii. pi. 54, f. 4 (1759-64). 

 Phalcena [^Geometra) cribraria. Cramer : Pap. Exot., iii. pi. 208, f. G 



(1777)- 

 Argina cribraria. Aurivillius : Kongl. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl., xix. 5. 181 

 (1882). 



Moore: Lep. Ceylon, ii. p. 68, pi. 106, f. i, i a (1882). 



Butler : P. Z. S., Lond., 1888, p. 156. 



Swinhoe: P. Z. S., Load., 1886, p. 436. 



Cotes and Swinh. : Cat. Moths of India, ii. 117. 743 



Swinhoe: Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., 1890, p. 183. 



Plialcena {Noctua) astrea. Drury : 111., ii. p. 11, pi. 6, f. 3 (1773). 

 Deiopeia astrea. Walker : ii. 570 (1854). 



Argina astrea. Moore: Cat. Lep. E. I. C, ii. p. 308, pi. 14, f. 3, 2a 

 (1859). 



Butltr: Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., 1877, p. 365. 



Swinhoe : P. Z. S., Lond., 1886, p. 436. 



Moore : Trans. Linn. Soc, Lond., 18S6, xxi. p. 55. 



Cotes and Swinh. : Cat. Moths of India, ii. 117. 742 



(1887). 

 Boiiibyx pylotis. Fabr. : Syst. Ent., p. 583 (1775). 



Hypocritapylotis. Hiibner : Samml. Exot. Schm., i. pi. 189, f. 1-4 (1806-24). 

 Argina pylotis. Butler: Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., 1877, p. 365. 



Cotes and Swinh.: Cat. Moths of India, ii. 118. 748 



(1887). 

 Argina notata. Butler: Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., 1877, p. 365. 



Swinhoe: P. Z. S., Lond., 1885, p. 204, and 1886, p. 436. 



Cotes and Swinh.: Cat. Moths of India, ii. 118. 746 



(1887). . 



Type (notata). North India, in B. M. 



a. Central India (7) (Hearsay). b. India (2) (Templeton). c. 



Canton. d. East Australia. e. Moreton Bay. f. Bouru 



(Wallace). g. Batchian (2) (Wallace). h. Mysol (Wallace). 



i. Bali (Wallace). j. Ceram (Wallace). 



