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inner margin near angle, outwardly shaded with reddish 
brown. Secondaries light brown, a dark subterminal shade. 
Undcrneath: primaries greyish, the margin narrowly, the 
apex broadly light brown ; a dark discal streak : secondaries 
buff, irrorated with brown, a dark median line. 
Expanse 33 millim. 
Hab. Castro, Parana. 
Argidia subapicata. 
Palpi and fore coxe ochreous. Body fawn colour. Pri- 
maries light brown, the costa broadly tinged with roseate 
beyond inner line; the cell tinged with ochreous; the inner 
and median lines fine, dark, parallel, forming three outward 
curves ; two oblique dark shades from costa, one to median 
line, the other to reniform ; the reniform large, finely outlined, 
and divided vertically by a dark line extending beyond cell 
and above subcostal vein; the outer line fine, dark, geminate, 
angled at vein 7, followed from vein 7 to costa by a broad 
dark brown space; between the submedian and vein 4 a pale 
buff shade; three subterminal black points between veins 3 
and 5; a terminal fine dark line. Secondaries light brown ; 
a dark wavy inner line; a straight outer line, dark brown, 
partly followed by a fine blackish line; a subterminal irre- 
gular brown line. Underneath: primaries with a large costal 
spot reaching apex, inwardly bordered by a semilunar dark 
brown line, and crossed by a darker brown oblique shade ; 
costal margin to spot broadly white; outer margin and disc 
brown; lines darker, fine, inner and median lines straight, 
outer and subterminal lines wavy; orbicular and reniform 
large, whitish, the former cut by the inner line, the latter with 
a vertical fine dark line: secondaries yellow ; fine dark inner, 
outer, and subterminal lines. 
_ Eixpanse 45 millim. 
Hab. Rio Janeiro. 
Allied to A. palmipes, Gn. 
Thermesia pallescens. 
Body and wings grey, thinly irrorated with black scales. 
Primaries : the costa and lines light reddish brown; the inner 
line indistinct, nearly straight, faintly shaded inwardly with 
buff; the outer line broader, deeply angled below costa, out- 
wardly shaded with buff; the orbicular small, vague, dark 
grey; the reniform large, light reddish brown, not very 
distinct ; fringe brown. Secondaries: the outer line straight 
as on primaries; a small black discal spot near base; fringe 
