Pyralidye of the Subfamily HyJrocampiiige. 365 



a faint rather diffused yellow-brown medial line, oblique to below 

 the cell, then incurved ; postmedial line indistinct, yellow-brown, 

 oblique to below vein 4, then inwardly oblique and sinuous ; a black 

 point just below apex and four black spots defined on outer side by 

 silver before termen at veins 6 to 2 with a slight waved black line 

 before them and some brownish beyond them before the blackish 

 terminal line. 



Hub. Pehu, Carabaya, Oconeque (Ockenden), 1 $ type. ^xp. 

 32 mm. 



(24 c) Argyractis argyropliora, sp. n. 



5 . Head and thorax silvery white, the vertex of head and 

 dorsum of thorax with some rufous ; abdomen silvery white irro- 

 rated with brown, the anal tuft rufous ; palpi rufous, the extremity 

 of 2nd joint and the 3rd joint white ; pectus, legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen white, the fore legs suffused with iTd'ous and 

 with black band at the exti-emity of the tibiae. Fore wing silvery 

 white, the costal area suffused with nifous ; a rufous antemedial 

 line, interrupted in submedian interspace ; a silvery- white discoidal 

 bar defined at sides by rufous ; postmedial line riifous, oblique to 

 vein 4, then almost obsolete and retracted to median nervure before 

 end of cell, then strong and incurved, a silvery-white band beyond 

 it extending to costa ; a wedge-shaped rufous patch from costa to 

 vein 4 before a white terminal band suffused with metallic silver 

 defined by fine blackish lines and forming a wedge-shaped mark at 

 tornus, the area above this mark suffused with yellow ; cilia white. 

 Hind wing white ; a fulvous-yellow discoidal bar defined on outer 

 side by a metallic silvery bar ; an oblique postmedial metallic 

 silvery band, inteiTupted at vein 4 and ending on termen above 

 tornus, defined on inner side by a yellow band and with the area 

 beyond it yellow ; five partly confiuent black spots on tennen with 

 some metallic silvery between them from below apex to vein 2 and 

 with some silver on termen from them to tornus ; cilia white with 

 a fine brown line near base from apex to vein 2. 



Hah. Colombia, Choko Prov., Condoto {Spurrell), 5 $ type, 

 R. San Juan, Juntas de K. Tamana, 1 $ . i^uyj. 20 mm, 



(25 a) Argyractis brunneosvjfusa, sp. n. 



5. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some whitish; 

 abdomen fulvous brown with whitish segmental lines, the base with 

 some whitish ; palpi with the 3rd joint white ; ventral surface of 

 abdomen red-brown with white segmental lines. Fore wing 

 whitish suffused with red-brown especially on costal area ; a sub- 

 basal shade formed b}^ black-brown scales ; a curved whitish ante- 

 medial line defined by shades formed by dark brown scales in the 

 interspaces ; a slight white discoidal lunule defined by diffused 

 dark brown ; postmedial line white defined on inner side by rather 

 diffused dark brown, oblique to vein 6, incurved at discal fold, at 



