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Genus ArgyrolophAj nov. 

 Type, A. costibarbata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the second joint 

 reaching to vertex of head and with tuft of hair behind at 

 extremity, the third moderate and with tuft of hair behind ; 

 frons smooth; eyes large, round; antennae of male with 

 fasciculate cilia; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales 

 and without crests; tibite slightly fringed with hair; abdo- 

 men with dorsal series of crests except at base. Fore wing 

 M'ith the apex rounded, the terraen evenly curved and crenu- 

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

 angle; 9 and 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 

 11 from cell ; male with a fringe of hair and scales from 

 below costa recurved over upper surface of wing. Hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 nearly fully 

 developed from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



In key differs from Micrantha in the palpi being up- 

 turned. 



5747 6. Argyrolopha costiJiarbata, sp. n. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen bright red-brown mixed with 

 blackish ; antennae and third joint of palpi except at tips 

 black ; fore tibias and tarsi black with slight pale rings ; 

 abdomen with the ci'csts black glossed Avith silver. Fore 

 Ming bright red-brown irrorated with black; adiflused black 

 band before tlie minutely waved black antcmedial line; two 

 waved medial lines with blackish suffusion between them ; a 

 small black discoidal lunule; postmedial line black defined 

 on outer side by reddish oehreous, minutely dentate, ex- 

 curved to vein 4, then incurved, a triangular blackish patch 

 beyond it on costal area with some oehreous ])oints on the 

 costa ; an indistinct oehreous subterrainal line excurvcd 

 below vein 7 and at niiddle; a crenulate black terminal line 

 forming ])oints in the inters])aces. Hind wing bright red- 

 brown irrorated with blackish ; sinuous black medial and 

 postmedial lines, the latter with oehreous patch beyond it in 

 submedian interspace; an indistinct pale curved subterminal 

 line defined on outer side by blackish ; a crenulate black 

 terminal line forming points at the interspaces ; the under- 

 ^^ide whitish irrorated with brown, sinuous dark medial and 

 postmedial lines, and terminal series of small lunules. 



llab. Maliutius, Curepipc [Ti)l/ock), 1 cJ , 2 ? type. Kjpp. 

 24 mm. 



