SELAJIBIjSTA. — AKGTEOSTEOTTS. 517 



Fore wiug Sery red, the costal area to median nervure and vein 2 

 sufFased with brown to postmedial line ; a very oblique pure white 

 streak from base of costa to median nervure, interrupted at middle ; 

 antemedial line pure white defined by black on outer side, oblique 

 from costa to vein 1 where it is bent inwards and terminates, 

 emitting a short Avhite streak on inner side just above median 

 nervure; a white point at origin of vein 2; orbicular a minute 

 black spot defined by white at sides ; reniform pure white, its upper 

 part linear, its lower angled inwards on median nervure and out- 

 wards beyond angle of cell ; medial line blackish, arising from costa 

 well beyond the cell, oblique and sinuous to lower extremity of 

 reniform, then obliquely incurved, some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; postmedial line pure white defined on each side by black, 

 arising from costa towards apex, produced to short streaks on the 

 veins, incurved to vein 4 where it is angled outwards, then obliquely 



Fig. 109.— Selambina trajiciens, (J . 



incurved, the veins bej'ond it with blackish streaks ending in 

 minute white streaks at termen and on cilia, which have a blackish 

 line through them. Hmd wing white, the inner and terminal areas 

 suffused with fiery red ; an indistinct oblique sinuous medial line 

 with blackish discoidal lunule on it ; an indistinct curved postmedial 

 line; a fine brown terminal line; the underside whitish suffused 

 and irrorated with fiery red, the medial, postmedial, and terminal 

 lines strong, black. 



Hah. BiiAZiL, Petropolis (Doer), 1 c5' , Organ Mfcs., Tijuca 

 (Wagner), 1 d , Rio Janeiro (Wihon), 2 (S . Exp. 32-36 millim. 



Genus ARGYROSTEOTIS. 



^fn. Type. 



Argyrostveiir, Hiibn. \'erz. p. 253 (]S27) amcenita. 



Thyria, Guen. ISoct. ii. p. ob'i (1852) beilmita. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reac-bing about to 

 middle of frons and moderately fringed with scales in front, the 3rd sbort ; 

 frons smooth; eyes large, round; antennae of male ciliated; thorax clothed 

 almost entirely with scales, the pro- and m'etathorax with spreading crests ; 

 tibise fringed with long hair, the hind tibia; of male with- fringe of extremely long 

 hair on inner side ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments, the crest 

 on 2nd segment extremely long and forked, anal tuft forked. Fore wing with 

 the, apex somewhat pi-oduced and acute, the termen crenulate, somewhat excised 

 to vein 4, then oblique ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle ; 9 from lU anastomosing with 8 t:o form the areole ; 11 from ceil. 

 Hind wiug with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsalescent from just below 

 middle of discocellulai-s ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



