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NOCTUID^. 



Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 439, pi. 127. f. 4 ; Stepli. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. 

 p. 91. 

 Cucullia subccBndea, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 217 (1901). 



Head olive-brown mixed with white ; thorax white, the tegulae 

 at base and tips, upper edge of patagia, and metathoraeic crests 

 olive-brown ; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with ochreous at base. 

 Fore wing golden green with some dark irroration ; a more or less 

 developed oblique silvery-white subbasal band from below costa to 

 vein 1 and a streak above inner margin before middle ; a slight dark 

 spot in middle of cell defined by silvery-white lunules above and 

 below, the lower conjoined to a more or less developed oblique 

 quadrate patch below the cell ; a slight dark discoidal spot defined 

 by silvery-white lunules above and below ; traces of a whitish post- 



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'Fig.^.—Argyrogalea argent ea, (^ . \. 



medial line oblique from costa to vein 6, then inwardly oblique ; a 

 silvery-white postmedial band, formed by a dentate patch below 

 costa, connected with or separated from an oblique band from 

 vein 4 to just above inner margin ; the costa white towards apex ; 

 a white terminal band; cilia grey at base, white at tips. Hind 

 wing white, the terminal area suff'used with brown, 



Ab. 1 . suhccerulea. Paler, the fore wing bluish green. — W. Siberia ; 

 W. Turkestan. 



Hah. Geemant, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Atjsteia - 

 HuNGAET ; Galicia ; Balmatia ; Greece, Merlin Coll. : Scandi- 

 navia ; Russia ; "VV. Siberia, Altai ; W. Turkestan, Ferghana,. 

 Tarbagatai ; E. Siberia, Amurland. E.vp 36-42 millim. 



Larvn. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 260, pi. 41. f. 9. 



Dorsal area olive-brown with the dorsal and subdorsal lines pale 

 yellow, each somite with a broad pinkish band thickly striated with 

 purple-brown ; thoracic somites with pale yellow lateral stripe, 

 broken up into oblique bars on abdominal somites ; stigmatal and 

 ventral lines defined on each side by purple-brown ; head with the 

 hemispheres pinkish. 



Genus ARGYROMATA, nov. 



Type, A. splendida. 



Proboscis fully deyeloped ; palpi short, obliquely upturned and fringed with 

 hair ; frons with truncate, rather heart-shaped prominence with raised edges, 

 its lower edge produced to a point; eyes large, rounded; antennae ahnost 

 simple ; head and thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the tegulas' 



