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" perlitora 9pargite museum, 



Naiades, et circum vitreos considite fontes: 

 Polliee virgineo teneros hie carpite flores : 

 Floribus et pictum, divae. replete canistrum. 

 At vos, o Nvmphse Craterides, ite sub undas ; 

 Ite, reeurvato variata eorallia trunco 

 Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, Deae pelagi, et pingni conchylia 9ucco." 



N.Pnrthenii Gianne/tasi, Eel. 1. 



No. 67. JULY 1913. 



I. — Descriptions of new Species of Pyralidse of the Sub- 

 family Pvraustinse. By Sir George F. Hampson, Bart., 

 F.Z.8., &c. 



[Continued from vol. xi. p. 530.] 



(4) Exeristis argyresthalis, sp. n. 



<J . Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish white. Fore 

 wing brownish white, the costal edge golden brown to beyond 

 middle ; a slight snbbasal silvery line ; an indistinct yellowish 

 antemedial band, edged by waved silvery lines ; a round 

 yellowish spot in middle of cell defined by silver, and a similar 

 discoidal spot constricted at middle ; a postmedial yellowish 

 and silvery band defined on each side by fine brown lines, 

 slightly incurved below costa and oblique below vein 4, with 

 some small brown and silvery somewhat dentate marks 

 beyond it towards apex ; a fine dark terminal line with two 

 points at middle ; cilia whitish, with a fine brown line 

 through them. Hind wing ochreous white tinged with 

 brown towards termen ; cilia white. 



Hab. N. Australia, Port Darwin (Bucklund), 1 $ type, 

 Exp. 16 mm. 



Ann. & Mag. N. Hist, Ser. 8. Vol xii. 1 



