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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OE BTTTTEEFLIES CAPTUEED BY 

 ME. C. M. WOODFOED IN THE SOLOMON ISLANDS. 



BY H. GROSE SMITH, F.E.S. 



Argyronympha RTTBIANENSIS. 



<J and ? . Upper-side : anterior-wings brown, with dark brown, broad marginal 

 border as in ugiensis, Mathew. Posterior- wings brown at the base to a little beyond 

 the middle, thence to the margin shading into dark brown. 



Under-side : anterior-wings pale brown at the base, gradually shading to 

 chestnut-brown at the margins. A submarginal silvery stripe, narrowly bordered 

 externally with black, extending partially along the costa near the apex, near the 

 posterior angle turning inwardly for about one-fourth the extent of the wings, thence 

 turning upwards as far as the upper median nervule, an ochreous stripe from near 

 the apex to the lowest median nervule, inside and parallel to the submarginal silvery 

 stripe, its lower third being within both the silver stripes. Posterior-wings : basal 

 half grey shaded with brown, outside which is a sinuate rufous-brown band, bordered 

 outwardly with a silver stripe, continued round by anal angle and outer margin, and 

 with other markings as in ptdcra, Mathew, except that in place of the two ochreous 

 lunules, above the confluent black spots between the discoidal and subcostal nervules, 

 is an ochreous quadrate spot. Exp., 1^ in. 



Sab. : Rubiana Lagoon. 



This species is between ugiensis and pulchra. It has the dark 

 marginal border of the former on the upper-side of anterior-wings, 

 and the markings (with the exception above stated) of pulchra on 

 the under-side of posterior-wings. 



ArGYROJTTMPHA TJLAVA. 



£ and ? . Upper-side : both wings dusky greyish-brown, somewhat paler 

 towards the base of anterior. 



Under-side: both wings brownish-grey, the outer third dusky brown, with 

 submarginal silvery stripes and markings as in rubianensis, but all paler and less 

 distinct. Exp., If in. 



Sab. : TJlawa Island. 



Near pulchra and rubianensis, but larger and more grey. 



Mtcalesis interrupt a. 



$ . Upper-side : anterior-wings, with the inner two-thirds, bright brown ; the 

 outer half of the costa and the rest of the wings dark brown. A subapical black 

 spot centred with white ; a similar spot between the middle and lowest median 

 nervules, the bright brown of the base extending above this spot between the upper 

 and middle median nervules. Posterior-wings dark brown, rather paler towards the 

 base and anal angle ; two narrow submarginal dark brown lines, inside which are 

 four black spots centred with white, the three lowest surrounded with a pale brown 

 ring, the first spot nearly obsolete, the third much the largest. 



