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and legs brown mixed with whitish. Fore wing pale reddish brown 

 tinged with grey and with slight dark irroration ; a very indistinct 

 dark antemedial line, oblique to median nervure, then inwardly 

 oblique ; two slight dark discoidal points ; a very indistinct medial 

 line, slightly excurved beyond the cell ; an indistinct dark postmedial 

 line, oblique to vein 6, then slightly waved, obliqvie below vein 4, 

 some white points beyond it on costa ; a very indistinct pale waved 

 subterminal line slightly defined on inner side by fuscous ; a series 

 of blackish points before termen. Hind wing pale reddish brown, 

 the terminal area grey-brown ; faint ti-aces of a subterminal line ; 

 cilia whitish at tips. Underside of fore wing grey irroi'ated with 

 fuscous brown, a dark subterminal shade diffused on inner side, the 

 area beyond it white ; hind wing whitish irrorated with brown, a 

 black discoidal point, diffused curved medial line, faint curved 

 postmedial line, subterminal shade, and series of black points before 

 termen. 



Hah. Grenada {H. H. Smith), 1 J type. ^.rp. 28 millim. 



Genus ARGYEOSTEOTIS.* 



Type. 



Agnovwnia, Hilbn. Zutr. iii. p. 10 (1825), non descr anilis. 



Argyrostrotis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 253 (1827) anilis, 



Foaphila, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 299 (1852) deleta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about 

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth, with 

 tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed 

 with hair and scales mixed and without crests; tibi^ smoothly scaled, the fore 

 and hind tibitu not spined ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore 

 wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen evenly curved 

 and slightly crenulate ; veins 3 aud 5 from near angle of cell ; from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with the cell half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 

 6 fully developed from above angle; G, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. , 



A. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey. 



a. Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved to vein 4, 



then incurved mrrufula. 



h. Fore wing with the postmedial line erect bucetum. 



c. Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique. 



a^. Fore wing with the area beyond the postmedial line 

 not broadly suffused with red-brown. 

 d^. Fore wing with the antemedial line white and nearly 



straight pacalis. 



b'. Fore wing with the antemedial line indistinct, dark, 

 waved. 

 ci/\ Fore wing with short bluck streaks beyond the 



postmedial line above and below vein 5 dijfundens. 



¥. Fore wing without black streaks beyond the 



postmedial line •■•• herbicola. 



51. Fore wing with the area beyond the postmedial lir." 



broadly suffused with i-ed-brown sylvarum. 



* This name was used Cat. Lap. Phal. B. M. vii. p. 517 in error for 



Argyrosticta. 



