522 NOCTUID.E. 



3385. Argyrostrotis vaii-aurea, n. sp. (Plate CXX. fig. 20.) 



5 . Head and thorax dark red-brown mixed with yellowish ; 

 palpi with the extremities of 1st and 2nd joints white ; tegtilas with, 

 the basal half yellowish with paired dark brown patches ; legs 

 yellowish-white streaked with dark red-brown : abdomen orange with 

 dorsal series of black spots, the crests and anal tuft red-brown, the 

 ventral surface irrorated with red-brown. Pore wing yellowish 

 almost wholly suiFused with black-brown, the veins slightly streaked 

 with yellowish ; subbasal line represented by blackish spots below 

 costa and cell defined on each side by yellowish at costa ; ante- 

 medial line black defined on each side by yellow, obliquely excurved 

 and slightly sinuous from costa to vein 1, bent inwards to inner 

 margin, an oblique yellowish, striga before it from submedian fold 

 to vein 1 ; orbicular with fine yellowish annulus conjoined to ante- 

 medial line, round ; reniform wath two golden-silvery strise on inner 

 side, an oblique yellowish bar in middle with silver striga beyond it 

 with point below it and oblique silver streak below its extremity ; 

 postmedial line yellowish defined on inner side by black lunules, 

 angled inwards below costa, then bent outwards, then dentate, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved and bent ontw^ards to inner 

 margin, traces of a greyish line beyond it oblique to vein 4, then 

 dentate, and some white points on costa ; subterminal line whitish, 

 dentate, oblique to vein 6, then angled outwards to near termen at 

 veins 4, 3, and 1 ; a terminal series of small black lunules defined 

 by whitish on inner side ; cilia blackish with fi.ne white line at base 

 and intersected with white at veins 6 and 4. Hind wing orange, 

 the terminal area broadly black-brown, its inner edge excurved at 

 middle ; cilia whitish with series of black points ; the underside 

 yellow, the costal and terminal areas whitish irrorated and suffused 

 with dark brown, postmedial line bent outwards below costa, then 

 oblique, waved. 



Hah. Tkinidad; Br. Guiana {Roberts), 2 $ type. Exp. 36 

 millim. 



*3386. Argyrosti»%is phraortes. (Plate CXX. fig. 21.) 



Thyria phraortes, Druce, A. M.N. H. (7) xi. p. 202(1903). 

 Head rufous mixed with whitish ; palpi black with slight white 

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

 yellowish white ; thorax black mixed with some white ; tegulaj with 

 the basal half white with some black spots ; patagia with white and 

 rufous patches ; metathoracic crests mixed with rufous ; pectus and 

 legs rufous mixed with black and white, the coxae silvery white, 

 the tarsi rufous ; abdomen dorsally si;ft'used with blackish and white, 

 the crests at base rufous, some yellowish on sides at base, the ventral 

 surface white irrorated with black. Fore Aving rufous mostly 

 suffused with black leaving the inner medial area rufous, the veins 

 streaked with rufous; subbasal line whitish, angled inwards in cell 

 and ending at vein 1, an oblique white striga beyond it across the 

 cell; antcmedial Hne black defined on inner side by rufous and by 



