of the Sahfuinilij nyiliocainpiiKi?. '61 ~) 



1)r()\vii, with ;i jioldcu <;loss at iiiiddk; and at tips towards 

 aj)C'X. Hind wiiij; white. 



Ilah. New (Juinea, Milue Bay [Meek), 2 S type. Exp. 

 18 niiu. 



Genus Argyractis. 



As many species hitherto placed in Catacb/sia belong to 

 this genus, the following revision becomes necessary. 



Skct. I. — Fore wing with veius 3, 4 stalked. 

 (1.) Argyractis malayaUs, sp. n. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish suffused with 

 fulvous brown ; abdomen with slight brown segmental 

 bauds ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen wdiite. Fore 

 wing whitish suffused with fulvous yellow and thickly 

 irrorated with bhick-brown scales except terminal area; a 

 slight difrused dark subbasal band; an oblicjue dark ante- 

 medial line, defined by whitish on inner side and slightly 

 angled outwards below eosta and at median uervure; an 

 obliijue yellow diseoidal lunule ; a dark postmedial line 

 forming a Avedge- shaped mark on eosta, oblique to vein 3, 

 then retracted to diseoidal lunule and again oblicjue, the area 

 beyond it yellow suffused w'ith browu ou costal half before 

 the wedo'C-shaped white subterminal baud from costa, defined 

 by black on outer side extending to vein 4, and followed by 

 a diffused dark line angled iuw^ards in submedian fold, below 

 Avhich there is a whitish mark on it ; a blackish spot at apex 

 and terminal series of minute dentate marks ; cilia dark 

 browu, with slight whitish line at base. Hind wing fulvous 

 yellow, with oblique diffused blackish band from costa near 

 base to toruus ; two tine oblique black medial lines tided in 

 Avith white from costa to submedian fold, the area beyond 

 them whitish thickly irrorated with black-brow' n ; two fine 

 black lines from costa beyond middle, very oblique to bjlow 

 apex, then sinuous and ending on termen at submedian 

 fold ; four black spots on medial part of termen, with black 

 luuules before them, with wliite points on them ijctween the 

 spots ; cilia black at base, with a bluish silvery gloss, 

 yellowish at tips, with blackish patch at middle. 



Hub. SelangoR; Kuala Lumpur [Durham), 1 $ type. 

 F.rp. 22 mm. 



