82 NOCTriD.K. 



Dun. Lt'p. I'r. vii. j). 430. iil. l'-'7. f. 4 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Eat., Haust. iii. 

 p. Ul. 

 CuctiUia nibctrrnlea, Stand. Cat. Lcp. pal. 217 (1001). 



Head olive-brown mixed with whito ; thorax white, the tegulae 

 at base and tips, iippt-r edpc of ]»atap;ia, and metathoracic crests 

 olive-brown : abdomen white, dorsally tinged with ochreous at base. 

 I-'ore wing golden green with some dark irroration ; a more or less 

 developed oblique silvery-white subbasal band from below costa to 

 vein 1 and a streak above inner margin before middle ; a slight dark 

 ppot in middle of cell defined by silvery-white lunules above and 

 below, the lower conjoined to a more or less developed oblique 

 quadrate patch below the cell ; a slight dark discoidal spot defined 

 by silvery-white lunules above and below ; traces of a whitish post- 



Fig. 0. — Argyrogalea argcniea, (^ . \. 



medial line oblique from co.sta to vein G, then inwardly oblique : a 

 silvery-white po.'itmedial band, formed by a dentate patch below 

 costa, connected with or separated from an oblique band from 

 vein 4 to just above inner margin ; the costa white towards apex : 

 a white terminal band ; cilia grey at base, white at tips. Hind 

 wing white, the terminal area suffused with brown. 



Ab. 1 . siihcandea. Paler, the fore wing bluish green. — W. Siberia ; 

 W. Turkestan. 



Unb. Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Austri.v : 

 HrxG.\RT; Galicia ; Dalmatia: Greece, Merlin Coll.; Scandi- 

 navia ; Russia : W. Siberia, Altai ; W, Turkestan, Ferghana, 

 Tarbagatai; E, Siberia, Amurland. £'.)y) 36-41' millim. 



Lm-vn. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. ]). 2G0. pi. 41. f. 9. 



Dorsal area olive-brown with the dorsal and subdorsal lino? pale 

 yellow, each somite with a broad pinkish band thicldy striated with 

 purple-brown ; thoracic somites with pale yellow lateral stripe, 

 broken up into oblique bars on abdominal somites ; stigmatal and 

 ventr;il lines defined on each side by pur])lc-brown : head with the 

 hemispheres pinkish. 



Genus ARGYROMATA, nov. 



Type, A. nptendida. 



Prohioscis fully df>Ti>Io|icd ; palpi short, nliliquely upturned and fringed with 

 hnir ; frons witii Ininrate, rather hoart-shoped proniinetico with raised edges, 

 its lower edge produced to a point; eyes large, rounded; .intonraB almost 

 simple ; head and thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the tegulat 



