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  Genus 
  ArgyrolophAj 
  nov. 
  

   Type, 
  A, 
  costiharbata. 
  

  

  Proboscis 
  fully 
  developed 
  ; 
  palpi 
  upturned, 
  the 
  second 
  joint 
  

   reaching 
  to 
  vertex 
  of 
  head 
  and 
  with 
  tuft 
  of 
  hair 
  behind 
  at 
  

   extremity, 
  the 
  third 
  moderate 
  and 
  with 
  tuft 
  of 
  hair 
  behind 
  ; 
  

   frons 
  smooth; 
  eyes 
  large, 
  round; 
  antenna3 
  of 
  male 
  with 
  

   fasciculate 
  cilia; 
  thorax 
  clothed 
  almost 
  entirely 
  with 
  scales 
  

   and 
  without 
  crests 
  ; 
  tibiae 
  slightly 
  fringed 
  with 
  hair; 
  abdo- 
  

   men 
  with 
  dorsal 
  series 
  of 
  crests 
  except 
  at 
  base. 
  Fore 
  wing 
  

   with 
  the 
  apex 
  rounded, 
  the 
  termen 
  evenly 
  curved 
  and 
  crenu- 
  

   late 
  ; 
  veins 
  3 
  and 
  5 
  from 
  near 
  angle 
  of 
  cell 
  ; 
  6 
  from 
  upper 
  

   angle; 
  9 
  and 
  10 
  anastomosing 
  with 
  8 
  to 
  form 
  the 
  areole 
  ; 
  

   11 
  from 
  cell 
  ; 
  male 
  with 
  a 
  fringe 
  of 
  hair 
  and 
  scales 
  from 
  

   below 
  costa 
  recurved 
  over 
  upper 
  surface 
  of 
  wing. 
  Hind 
  

   Aving 
  with 
  veins 
  3, 
  4 
  from 
  angle 
  of 
  cell 
  ; 
  5 
  nearly 
  fully 
  

   developed 
  from 
  just 
  below 
  middle 
  of 
  discoccllulars 
  ; 
  6, 
  7 
  

   from 
  upper 
  angle; 
  8 
  anastomosing 
  with 
  the 
  cell 
  near 
  base 
  

   only. 
  

  

  In 
  key 
  differs 
  from 
  Micrantha 
  in 
  the 
  palpi 
  being 
  up- 
  

   turned. 
  

  

  574<7 
  b. 
  Argyrolopha 
  costiharbata, 
  sp. 
  n. 
  

  

  Head, 
  thorax, 
  and 
  abdomen 
  bright 
  red-brown 
  mixed 
  with 
  

   blackish 
  ; 
  antennae 
  and 
  third 
  joint 
  of 
  palpi 
  except 
  at 
  tips 
  

   black; 
  fore 
  tibiae 
  and 
  tarsi 
  black 
  with 
  slight 
  pale 
  rings; 
  

   abdomen 
  with 
  the 
  crests 
  black 
  glossed 
  with 
  silver. 
  Fore 
  

   wing 
  bright 
  red-brown 
  irrorated 
  with 
  black; 
  adiH'used 
  black 
  

   band 
  before 
  the 
  minutely 
  waved 
  black 
  antemedial 
  line; 
  two 
  

   waved 
  medial 
  lines 
  with 
  blackish 
  suffusion 
  between 
  them 
  ; 
  a 
  

   small 
  black 
  discoidal 
  lunule 
  ; 
  postmedial 
  line 
  black 
  defined 
  

   on 
  outer 
  side 
  by 
  reddish 
  ochreotis, 
  minutely 
  dentate, 
  ex- 
  

   curved 
  to 
  vein 
  4, 
  then 
  incurved, 
  a 
  triangular 
  blackish 
  patch 
  

   beyond 
  it 
  on 
  costal 
  area 
  with 
  some 
  oehreous 
  points 
  on 
  the 
  

   costa 
  ; 
  an 
  indistinct 
  oehreous 
  subterminal 
  line 
  excurved 
  

   below 
  vein 
  7 
  and 
  at 
  middle; 
  a 
  crenulate 
  black 
  terminal 
  line 
  

   forming 
  points 
  in 
  the 
  interspaces. 
  Hind 
  wing 
  bright 
  red- 
  

   brown 
  irrorated 
  with 
  blackish 
  ; 
  sinuous 
  black 
  medial 
  and 
  

   postmedial 
  lines, 
  the 
  latter 
  with 
  oehreous 
  patch 
  beyond 
  it 
  in 
  

   submedian 
  interspace; 
  an 
  indistinct 
  pale 
  curved 
  subterminal 
  

   line 
  defined 
  on 
  outer 
  side 
  by 
  blackish 
  ; 
  a 
  crenulate 
  black 
  

   terminal 
  line 
  forming 
  points 
  at 
  the 
  interspaces 
  ; 
  the 
  under- 
  

   side 
  whitish 
  irrorated 
  with 
  brown, 
  sinuous 
  dark 
  medial 
  and 
  

   postmedial 
  lines^ 
  and 
  terxiiinal 
  series 
  of 
  small 
  lunules. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Mauritius^ 
  Curepipe 
  [Tallock), 
  ] 
  J* 
  , 
  2 
  ? 
  ty[)e. 
  Exp. 
  

   24 
  mm. 
  

  

  