Pyralide of the Subfamily Crambine. 445 
(26) Diptychophora argenticilia, sp. n. 
9. Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown tinged with greyish 
fuscous ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen brownish 
white. Fore wing deep rufous mixed with some whitish and 
fuscous, the medial area whiter; a curved blackish medial line ; 
postmedial line blackish, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; a 
terminal series of slight dark points ; cilia deep fiery red at base, 
with a black line at middle and silvery white tips with some fuscous 
at tips towards apex. Hind wing white tinged with fuscous; the 
cilia whiter with a dark line near base. Underside white suffused 
with fuscous, the fore wing with oblique black bar from costa, 
the cilia with a black line near base. 
Hab. Jamatca, Runaway Bay (Walsingham), 1 type. Huxp. 
12 mm. 
(la) Argyria latifasciella. 
(Sect. Hurhythma, Turner.) Antennz of male bipectinate. 
Head black with white lines above eyes and at neck; thorax 
cupreous, abdomen ochreous. Fore wing black suffused with 
brazen yellow ; ante- and postmedial erect white bands with waved 
edges, the latter broad, its outer sides strongly indented beyond 
the cell; a terminal black band with series of black points on it. 
Hind wing white with subterminal blackish band obsolete towards 
anal angle and with the area beyond it slightly suffused with 
fuscous. 
Hab. N. Avusrratta, Port Darwin, 1 3, 1 @ type. Exp., 
36 12, 2 14 mm. 
(146) Argyria mesozonalis, sp. n. 
3. Head and thorax silvery white, the sides of head, subdorsal 
stripes on tegule, and the metathorax bright rufous; abdomen 
ochreous, tinged with brown except the anal tuft; antenne rufous ; 
maxillary palpi rufous, white at tips; palpi yellow tinged with 
rufous; fore femora dark brown above, the tibie and tarsi red- 
brown ; pectus, mid and hind legs and ventral surface of abdomen 
ochreous white. Fore wing silvery white; a bright rufous fascia 
on costa expanding into a patch at base; a medial rufous band 
forming a quadrate discoidal patch with a small yellowish spot 
on it, then narrowing, waved, and slightly irrorated with yellow; 
a truncate comical patch from the costal fascia before apex, its 
lower edge produced to a shght oblique tooth; a rufous terminal 
band with waved inner edge narrowing to a point at apex; cilia 
paler rufous with a deeper rufous line near base and a silvery gloss 
at tips. Hind wing silvery white with a faint reddish ochreous 
tinge ; a terminal series of minute dark points to vein 2. Under 
side of fore wing suffused with red-brown. 
Hab. Perv, La Oroya (Ockenden), 1 3 type. Hxp. 20 mm. 
