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a faint rather diffused yellow-brown medial line, oblique to below 

 the cell, then incurved ; postmedial line indistinct, yellow- brown, 

 oblique to below vein 4, then inwardly oblique and sinuous ; a black 

 point just below apex and four black spots defined on outer side by 

 silver before termen at veins 6 to 2 with a slight waved black line 

 before them and some brownish beyond them before the blackish 

 terminal line. 



Hah. Peeu, Carabaya, Oconeque {Oc/ceiiden), 1 $ type. ^uy. 

 32 mm. 



(24 c) Argyractis argyrophora, sp. n. 



$ . Head and thorax silvery white, the vertex of head and 

 dorsum of thorax with some rufous ; abdomen silvery white irro- 

 rated with brown, the anal tuft rufous ; palpi rufous, the extremity 

 of 2nd joint and the 3rd joint white ; pectus, legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen white, the fore legs suffused with rufous and 

 Avith black band at the extremity of the tibiae. Fore wing silvery 

 Avhite, the costal area suffused with nifous ; a rufous antemedial 

 line, interrupted in submedian interspace ; a silvery- white discoidal 

 bar defined at sides by rufous ; postmedial line rufous, oblique to 

 vein 4, then almost obsolete and retracted to median nervure before 

 end of cell, then strong and incurved, a silvery-white band beyond 

 it extending to costa ; a wedge-shaped rufous patch from costa to 

 vein 4 before a white terminal band suffused Avith metallic silver 

 defined by fine blackish lines and forming a wedge-shaped mark at 

 tornus, the area above this mark suffused with yellow ; cilia white. 

 Hind wing white ; a fulvous-yellow discoidal bar defined on outer 

 side by a metallic silvery bar ; an oblique postmedial metallic 

 silvery band, interrupted at vein 4 and ending on termen above 

 tornus, defined on inner side by a yellow band and with the area 

 beyond it j^ellow ; five partly confiuent black spots on termen with 

 some metallic silvery between them from below apex to vein 2 and 

 with some silver on termen from them to tornus ; cilia white with 

 a fine brown line near base from apex to vein 2. 



Hah. Colombia, Choko Prov., Condoto (Spurrell), 5 $ type, 

 R. San Juan, Juntas de K. Tamana, 1 $ . ijxp. 20 mm. 



(25 a) Argyractis brunneosifjfusa, sp. n. 



$. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some Avhitish ; 

 abdomen fulvous brown with Avhitish segmental lines, the base with 

 some whitish ; palpi with the 3rd joint white ; ventral surface of 

 abdomen red-brown with white segmental lines. Fore wing 

 whitish suffused with red-brown especially on costal area ; a sub- 

 basal shade formed by black-brown scales ; a curved whitish ante- 

 medial line defined by shades formed by dark brown scales in the 

 interspaces; a slight white discoidal lunule defined by diffused 

 dark brown ; postmedial line white defined on inner side by rather 

 diffused dark brown, oblique to vein 6, incurved at discal fold, at 



