524 lirocTTJiD^. 



3388. Argyrostrotis aurifundens. (Plate CXX. fig. 23.) 



Thyria aurifundens, Wlk. xv. 1788 (1858). 



Thyria ditissima, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 333 (pai-t.), 

 nee Wlk. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with o'reyish and some black 

 scales ; palpi with dark band near extremity of 2nd joint ; frons 

 Avith blackish bar ; tegulse with some black marks near base and 

 two medial lines ; patagia with black spot near base ; tarsi slightly 

 ringed with white; abdomen red-brown mixed with blackish, the 

 lateral area yellowish. Fore wing red-brown largely suffused 

 with black, the veins with paler streaks; subbasal line greyish, 

 waved, from costa to submedian fold, defined by black on inner 

 side ; antemedial line black defined by greyish on inner side, oblique 

 from costa to vein 1 and slightly angled inwards on median 

 nervure, bent inw^ards to inner margin, an oblique striga before it 

 from submedian fold to below vein 1 ; claviform small, slightly 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform silver with a golden tinge, 

 defined by black, the former represented by a U-shaped mark with 

 spot above its upper extremity, the latter formed by an oblique mark 

 ■U'ith round spot below it on inner side, a point at upper extremity, a 

 curved line at middle, spot at lower extremity and slight streak below ; 

 postroedial line double, black filled in with greyish, the inner line 

 formed by black lunules slightly defined by greyish on inner side, 

 angled inwards below costa to the orbicular, strongly bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely waved, slightly incurved at discal fold, 

 incurved below vein 4, a greyish line beyond it, oblique to vein 4, then 

 dentate, and some white points on costa; a large oblique silver spot 

 at apex, where it is bidentate, with two wedge-shaped subterminal 

 vspots below it with two spots beyond them just before termen, a 

 rather U-shaped spot below vein 5, a slight V-shaped spot below 

 vein 4 and a subterminal striga below vein 3 ; blackish lunules on 

 termen below veins 3 and 2 slightly defined by grey on inner side ; 

 a pale line at base of cilia,' whitish between veins 7 and 4 where 

 the cilia are tipped with white. Hind wing orange, the costal and 

 terminal areas broadly red-brown ; cilia with fine pale line at base 

 and whitish tips ; the underside with the costal area pinkish irrorated 

 with red-brown, the terminal area suffused with red-brown below 

 vein 5, a blackish spot at upper angle of cell, a postmedial line bent 

 outwards below costa, waved to vein 6, then oblique, and small 

 terminal black lunules from apex to vein 5 defined by white on inner 

 side. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing wholly suffused with red-browm. 



Ab. 2. Head, thorax, and fore wing with the ground-colour 

 black-brown, not red-brown. — Peru. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa(//^oer/e), 1 S; Panama, Chi riqui {Champion), 

 1 6, Godman-Salvin Coll., Cana Mines (Tylecote), 1 5 ; Beazil, 

 Pdo Janeiro, Piio Uerg, Eio Grande do !Sul, type t $ in Mus. Oxon. 

 Exp. 30-34 millim. 



