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fringe, beyond which it (the fringe) is almost pure white : 

 secondaries silvery white, with faint cupreous reflections ; an 

 indistinct marginal testaceous line : body testaceous ; palpi 

 with the terminal bristles dark brown ; abdomen silvery at 

 the base. Primaries below greyish testaceous, with a narrow 

 buff-coloured border; fringe silvery : secondaries with greyish 

 testaceous costal area, otherwise as above : body below shining 

 golden buff. Expanse of wings 6 lines. 

 A pair. Honolulu. 



ArgyresthiidsB. 



42. Argyresthia zebriaa^ sp. n. (No. 74). 



Primaries above stramineous ; two black spots placed ob- 

 liquely near the base on the costal and dorsal margins, two 

 larger spots at about the basal third, almost uniting in the 

 centre into an oblique band ; an oblique irregular abbreviated 

 band across the end of the cell, divided by a longitudinal 

 line of the ground-colour at its inferior extremity, and beyond 

 this four submarginal black .dots ; a broad oblique black sub- 

 apical band, divided by a slender line of the ground-colour 

 close to its outer edge ; fringe white at apex, but interrupted 

 by a large black spot confluent with the subapical band, and 

 emitting a short curved line outwards and downwards close to 

 the edge of the fringe : secondaries silvery white, slightly 

 tinted Avith stramineous towards the apex : body ochraceous, 

 frons black. Under surface shining grey : primaries with 

 cupreous reflections. Expanse of wings 4 lines. 

 One specimen. Honolulu. 



43. Argyresthial aurisquamosa^ sp. n. (No. 42). 



Primaries coarsely scaled; brown, clianging to purple in 

 the light, and with the scales beyond the middle metallic 

 golden in the centre ; an irregular sulphur-yellow spot at 

 about the centre of the dorsal margin, and a cuneiform sub- 

 apical costal spot sulplmr-yellow, changing in the light to 

 brassy gold; fringe pale bronzy brown: secondaries bronzy 

 brown, with the basicostal area and outer margin metallic 

 silver ; fringe very long and bronzy brown : thorax dark 

 brown, shot with purple and spotted with gold; frons, palpi, 

 and antenna bright pearly opaline ; abdomen greyish brown ; 

 legs whitish ; tarsi obscurely banded with grey. Wings 

 below bronzy brown : secondaries paler than primaries : body 

 shining whity brown. Expanse of wings 5 lines. 



One imperfect specimen. I have taken the description 



