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cilia white towards apex and with series of white spots ; the under- 

 tiido silvery blue at base, extending on inner area to near tornus ; 

 .two postmedial blue spots below costa and two between veins 2 

 and 4. 



Ilab. Aru {Wallace), typef ^ in Mus. Oxon. ; In^. Guinea, 

 Milne Eay {Meel-), '2 (S ■ J^^vp. 48 millim. 



*48. Argyrolepidia solomonis. (I'latc Lil. iig. liJ.) 

 PhahenoidiS (equulis solomonis, Roths. Nov. Zool. vi. p. 432 (1899). 



$ . Black-brown ; palpi with the Ist joint orange in front, the 

 2nd white in front, orange behind ; sides of frons and vertex of 

 head white ; thorax with some white hair ; throat, fore coxiE, and 

 fringe on fore femora orange ; pectus and legs white and black ; 

 abdomen with white segmental lines, the anal tuft orange. Fore 

 wing with small subbasal and antemedial blue spots ; a small 

 white spot edged with blue in middle of cell ; an oblitjue white 

 band be3-ond the cell between veins 7 and 2, its outer edge indented 

 at vein 3 ; a curved series of small blue spots beyond it bent 

 inwards above inner margin ; a siibterminal series of small blue 

 spots ; cilia white at apex and tornus. Hind wing Avith white spots 

 below and beyond end of cell conjoined by a white patch in end of 

 cell, its edges with some blue on the veins ; cilia chequered black 

 and white ; the underside wiih blue-white at base extending on 

 inner margin to near tornus. 



Huh. HoLOMOX Is., Tugela ( Woodford), type t $ in Coll. 

 liothschild. E.vp. 50 millim. 



49. Argyrolepidia caeruleotincta. (Plate LII. tig. 12.) 



Agarisia cceruleotincia, Lucas, P. Linu. Soc. N. S. W. (2) vi. p. 303 (1891). 



Head and thorax reddish brown ; palpi with the 1st joint in 

 front and the 2nd behind pale yellow, the 2ud in front white ; 

 sides of frons and basal joint of autenna3 white; the hair on pectus, 

 coxa), and femora yellow ; legs brown, marked with white ; abdomen 

 blackish, with bluish-white segmental lines and the veutral suriace 

 white ; the anal tuft orange. Fore wing reddish brown ; some 

 brilliant blue scales at base ; traces of an oblique antemedial series 

 of blue points, a (juadrate white sj)ot in end of cell ; an obliciuo 

 white band from costa beyond middle to vein 2, tinged with blue 

 toward costa, and with an indistinct series of blue points beyond it ; 

 cilia white-tipped at apex. Hind wing black shot with blue ; 

 a large white spot below middle of cell and another beyond the 

 discocellulars ; cilia white at apex and tornus and spotted with 

 white at middle. Underside with silvery-blue fascia below base of 

 costa of fore wing ; hind wing with the basal area silvery blue, 

 extending on inner area to near tornus. 



Jlab. (Queensland, 1 J . Exp. 48 millim. 



