PyralklEe of tlie Sii'ifamily HyJrocampina3. 363 



above vein 3 ; cilia white, metallic golden at tips, with cupreous- 

 brown line at base from vein -1 to submedian fold, and wholly tinged 

 with gold towards tornus. Hind wing uniform silvery white. 



Hab. Moluccas, Batchian {Doherty), 1^,15 type. Exp. 

 16 mm. 



(5 5) Argyractis leucostola, sp. n. 



Fore wing of male with small fovea below the costa beyond 

 middle and vein 11 distorted. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen silvery white ; fore tibise black at 

 base and extremity. Fore wing silvery white, the costa suffused 

 with blackish brown to end of cell ; a reddish-brown spot in end 

 of cell and oblique black-brown line from median nervure near end 

 of cell to inner margin, diffused on inner side ; a brown discoidal 

 striga and oblique line from it to inner margin ; postmedial line 

 double, black-brown filled in with yellow and oblique to vein 3, 

 then single, retracted with an upwards curve to lower angle of cell, 

 then strongly excurved to inner margin, its sinus filled in with 

 yellow ; a terminal ^^ellow band, arising just below apex, its inner 

 side defined by a black-brown line to above vein 2 and its outer by 

 black points, a sUvery spot defined by brown before termen below 

 vein 2. Hind wing silvery white ; a sinuous black-brown line 

 from middle of costa to tornus, with a yellow patch before it below 

 the cell ; a double slightly sinuous black-brown line from costa just 

 before apex to submedian fold, excurved below costa and filled in 

 with yellow below vein 3 ; a yellow terminal band from apex to 

 submedian fold, defined on inner side by -a waved black line except 

 at apex ; cilia with a brown line at base to vein 2. 



Hah. Bk. C. Africa, Mt. Mlanje {Xeave), 2 d , 5 $ type. 

 E.vp., 6 18, 2 22 mm. 



(13 rt) Argyractis JfavivittaJis, sp. n. 



S ■ Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish mixed with some red- 

 brown ; antennae red-brown ; fore tarsi with brown bands towards 

 extremities. Fore wing silvery white, the costal area suffused with 

 brown ; a brown antemedial line denned on outer side by white, 

 incurved from below costa ; a medial brown fine defined on outer 

 side by white, incurved below the cell ; a small brown discoidal 

 spot ; postmedial line silvery white, defined on inner side b}' brown 

 from costa to vein 4, then angled inwards to median nervure before 

 end of cell, then obHque and defined on inner side by brown to 

 tornus, with a wedge-shaped yellow patch above it from lower angle 

 of cell to below its angle at vein 4 ; a silvery-white subterminal 

 line defined on each side by brown from costa to vein 2 and a small 

 brown spot with silvery-white mark before it below vein 2 ; cilia 

 brown at base, whitish at tips. Hind wing white, the end of cell and 

 the area beyond it from costa to vein 3 yellow ; a silvery discoidal bar 

 defined on inner side by a brown striga ; postmedial line silverv white 

 and oblique from costa to vein 3 ; a temiinal black patch from below 



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