550 AGARISTID^. 



Subsp. 2. timorensi». Roths. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 48 (1896). 



S . Pore wing with the oblique postraedial series of spots white ; 

 the spot in cell reduced ; hind wing with the maculate crimson 

 band replaced by obsolescent whitish spots. 



Hah. Dutch Timor, Oinainisa (Doherttj). Type f in Coll. 

 Rothschild. 



Subsp. 3. dcsmonis, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xriii. p. 249 (1876) ; Kirby, Cat- 

 Het. p. 21. 



5 . Fore wing with the orange medial and postmedial spots 

 obsolete; hind wing with the crimson maculate band represented 

 'by traces of a spot above tornus, more distinct on underside. 



Hah. N. GriTiNEA, Pt. Moresby, 1 $ type. 



Larva. Scott, Auslral. Lep. i. p. 25, pi. 8. 



"White ; head, legs, prologs, a band between somites 3 and 4, and 

 a large dorsal patch on penultimate somite orange ; each somite 

 with a black band somewhat expanding dorsally and ventrally ; 

 a white subdorsal striga on the orange band after thoracic somites ; 

 the intersomital folds yellowish ; about eight black setae flattened 

 and expanding towards extremity on each somite. Food-plant, 

 Vitis heterojihj/lla. 



Genus ARGYROLEPIDIA, nov. 



Type, A. vamphilia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with hair, 

 the 3rd long, naked, somewhat porrect and dilated at extremity ; frons 

 with somewhat pointed conical prominence ; antennte hardly dilated towards 

 extremity ; pectus hairy ; femora fringed with long hair ; tibi£e nearly smooth, 

 the spurs well developed ; abdomen clothed with ridges of hair, male with the 

 claspers large and with protrusible lateral tufts of hair at base. Fore wing with 

 Teins 3, 4 trom angle of cell ; 5 from well above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 y from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with vein 2 from towards angle of cell ; 3, 4 from angle ; 5 obsolescent from 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



A. Hind wing without white spots below and beyond cell. 



a. Hind wing with the basal area metallic blue novcB-kihernice. 



b. Hind wing with the basal area not metallic blue j)amphila. 



B. Hind wing with white spots below and beyond cell. 



a. Fore wing with blue spots at base. 

 a^. Hind wing without white in cell. 



ci^. Abdomen with black patch on anal tuft fracta. 



b"^. Abdomen without black patch on anal tuft aqualis. 



6'. Hind wing with the end of cell white, the two 



spots conjoined solomonis. 



b. Fore wing without blue spots at base ccBTuleotincta. 



*44. Argyrolepidia novae-MherniaB. (Plate LII. fig. 9.) 



Agarista. novce-hibemia, Boisd. Voy. Astrolabe, Lep. p. 178 (1832) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 23. 



S ■ Black ; palpi with the 1st joint in front and the 1st and 2nd 

 behind orange, the 2ud and 3rd with some white scales ; frons 

 and vertex of head white at sides ; tegulae with white point at 



