446 Sir G. F. Hampson on neto 



O-oa) Argyria eromenalis, sp. n. 



6 . Head, thorax, and abdomen wliite suffused with red-brown, 

 the ventral surface of abdomen pure white. Fore wing white 

 tinged and irrorated with pale red-brown ; a rather diffused red- 

 brown medial line defined on inner side by white, incurved below 

 submedian fold ; subterminal line white defined on each side by 

 rather diffused red-brown, curved ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing white tinged with red-brown. Underside of fore wing 

 and costal area of hind wing suffused with red-brown. 



Sab. SuMBAWA, Tambora (Doherty), 1 S type. Sxp, 10 mm. 



(18 &) Argyria hicuspidalis, sp. n. 



6 . Head, tegulae, and prothorax black-brown, the rest of the 

 thorax red-brown ; abdomen whitish suffused ^^-ith rufous ; palpi 

 wliite below towards base ; pectus and legs whitish suffused with 

 rufous ; venti-al surface of abdomen creamy white. Fore wing 

 yellowish strongly suffused with rufous ; a silvery white fascia 

 occupying the cell and bidentate beyond it, the upper tooth short, 

 the lower extending to the subterminal line, the fascia defined 

 below by a black streak on median nervure and to the subterminal 

 line at discal fold ; an oblique red-brown jjostmedial striga from 

 costa to the upper tooth of the fascia ; subterminal line red-brown 

 defined on outer side by white and oblique to vein 6, then blackish 

 and angled inwards to near lower angle of cilia, then excurved and 

 again angled inwards above discoidal fold in which it terminates ; 

 the terminal area black irrorated with white, naiTowing to apex, 

 towards which it is defined on inner side by white, and narrowing 

 to tornus ; cilia rufous, black-bro^vn at tips towards apex. Hind 

 wing whitish sviffused with red-brown, darker towards termen ; 

 cilia wliitish tinged Avith rufous. Underside whitish, the fore wing 

 and costal area of hind wing suffused with red-brown. 



Hah. Br. C. Afeica, Mt. Mlanje {Neave), 1 d ; Pohtuguese 

 E. Afeica, E. of Mt. Mlanje {Neave), 1 6 type. Exp. 22 mm. 



(18 fZ) Argyria quadriciispis, sp. n. 



Platytes sp., Longstaff, Butterfly-hunting in many Lands, pi. ii. f. 11. 



d . Head red-broT.vn and whitish ; thorax red-brown ; abdomen 

 ochreous white ; antennse brown ; palpi pale red-brown, the 

 maxillar}' palpi white at tips ; pectus and legs ochreous Avhite, the 

 tarsi dark brown ringed with white. Fore wing grey- white suffused 

 and thickly iiTorated with reddish brown ; a silvery white fascia 

 defined by V>lackish through the cell extending from just below costa 

 to discal f(jld where it is jsroduced to a tooth just beyond middle, 

 then narrowing and produced to three teeth well beyond the cell, 

 the middle tooth rather longer, the area beyond its medial part 

 more distinctly irrorated white and dark brown ; subterminal line 



