ARGYROMATA. — NTCTEROPHiBTA, 



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produced behind into a small hood ; fore tibia produced at extremity into a 

 small medial claw, the tibiae fringed with long hair on outer side ; abdomen 

 without dorsal crests. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex produced, the 

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

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

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below angle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



2171. Argyromata splendida. 



Phalana splendkla, Oram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 242, pi. 400. f. F (1782); 



Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 428, pi. 38. f. 1 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. 



ii. p. 318, Noet. f. 190 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217. 

 Noctua argyrca, Frr. Beitr. iv. pi. 304. i". 2 (1842). 



Head and thorax white tinged with grey or brown ; tegulae with 

 pure white medial band ; legs striped with white ; abdomen white 

 tinged with ochreous. Fore wing silvery blue-green, the inner 

 margin ochreous from before middle to tornus ; cilia white. Hind 



Fig. 10. — Argyromata splendida, (^ . \. 



wing white, the veins and terminal half tinged with brown ; cilia 

 white. 



Hah. S. Russia, Sarepta, Zeller and Leech Colls., Urals ; W. Siberia, 

 Altai, Leech Coll, ; AV. Turkestan, Marghilan, 1 S , Ferghana, 

 Issyk Kul ; E. Turkestan, Hi ; Mongolia, Uliassutai ; Tibet, Amdo. 

 Exp. 40-42 miUim. 



Genus NYCTEROPHiETA. 



Type. 



Nycterophata, Smith, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. iv. p. 45 (1882) hma. 



Epinyctix, Grote, Can . Ent. xiv. p. 75 (1882) hma. 



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

 with long hair above and below ; frons with obliquely rounded prominence 

 with corneous plate below it ; eyes large, rounded ; antennae almost simple in 

 both sexes; head and thorax clothed with hair only, the tegulae produced 

 behind into a hood ; fore tibiiB with strong curved claw on inner side and short 

 claw on outer ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing long and narrow, the 

 apex produced, the termen oblique ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent 

 from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle or shortly stalked; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base onlj. 



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