AEGTROSTROTIS, 521 



red-brown, its iniier edge angiud outwards, at vein 4; cilia white ; 

 tlie underside yellow, the costal area except at base and terminal 

 area tinged with pinkish aud irrorated with red-brown, postmedial 

 line bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, oblique, 

 tAvo terminal black points below apex defined by white on inner 

 side. 



Hah, Panama, La Chorera (^Dolhy- Tyler), 1 S ; Brazil, Pernam- 

 buco. Exp. 28 millim. 



3384. Argyrosteotis meres. (Plate CXX. fig. 19.) 

 Thijria meres, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) xi. p. 201 (1903). 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with grey and black ; palpi with 

 slight white rings at extremities of 1st and 2nd joints ; lower part 

 of frons whitish ; tegulae with black spots near base and black lines 

 at middle and near tips ; patagia with oblique blackish bars ; 

 abdomen orange with dorsal black fascia and the extremity black, 

 the basal crests rufous, the ventral surface irrorated with rufous 

 and black. Fore wing rufous suff'used with black and irrorated with 

 grey ; the veins streaked with rufous : subbasal line grey, angled 

 inwards to base in cell aud ending at vein 1, an oblique grey striga 

 beyond it 'across the cell ; antemedial line black defined on inner 

 side by grey, oblique and slightly sinuous to vein 1 and bent inwards 

 to inner margin, an oblique grey streak before it from median 

 Tiervure to vein 1 ; orbicular represented by a slight oblique silvery 

 U-shaped mark with oblique silver spot above its upper extremity ; 

 reniform with oblique silver spot with another spot below it on inner 

 side, a slight curved line at middle, point at upper extremity and 

 oblique bar at lower extremity ; postmedial line grey defined on 

 inner side by black lunules and on outer side by a black line angled 

 inwards below costa, then strongly bent outwards, oblique to 

 vein 4, then inwardly oblique and bent outwards to inner margin, 

 some white points beyond it on costa ; an oblique elliptical silver 

 apical patch bifid at apex, with silver lunules below it above 

 veins 6' and 5 with three small marks beyond them between 

 veins 7 and 4, slight silver subterminal lunules above veins 3 and 2 ; 

 a terminal series of small blackish lunules ; cilia with pale lines at 

 base and tips. Hind wing orange-yellow with broad terminal 

 black-brown band ; cilia white chequered with blackish from apex 

 to vein 2 ; the underside with the costal area whitish irrorated with 

 red-brown except at base, the terminal area whitish suffused with 

 red-brown, a small discoidal spot and postmedial line bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely crenulate and ending at submedian 

 fold. 



Hah. Colombia, Minca {H. H. Smith); Ecuador, Sarayacu 

 (Bucl-ley); Bk. Guiana {Bodivay), 1 J ; Brazil, Castro Parana, in 

 Coll. D. Jones. jBo-p. 28-36 millim. Type t in Coll, Druce. 



