AEGYRQSTROTIS. 525 



*3389. Argyrostrotis eubotes. (Plate CXX. fig. 24.) 



Thyria eubotes, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) xi. p. 201 (1903). 



$ . Head and thorax rufous mixed with red-brown and some 

 black; tegulse with black-brown spots near base and blackish medial 

 line ; coxae with white scales ; abdomen rufous with some yellow at 

 base on sides and below, the crests mixed with black. Fore wing 

 rufous mostly suffused and irrorated with dark red-brown ; subbasal 

 line rufous, defined on each side by black marks, waved, from costa 

 to vein 1 ; antemedial line black defined on inner side by rufous, 

 waved, excurved below the cell, an oblique rufous striga before it 

 from submedian fold to vein 1 ; orbicular with rufous striga on 

 inner side and two silvery striaj on outer, the upper oblique, the 

 lower almost or quite contiuent with the reuiform, which is defined 

 on inner side by an oblique silver striga above and spot below, a 

 curved rufous line at middle and silver points at upper and lower 

 extremities ; postmedial line rufous, defined on inner side by black 

 lunules, angled inwards below costa, then beut outwards, obliquely 

 excurved to vein 4, inwardly oblique to vein I and bent outwards to 

 inner margin, some white points beyond it on costa; an oblique 

 wedge-shaped silver apical patch with small lunule below it followed 

 by an oblique striga with small spot beyond it, then by a faint 

 waved rufous line with slight brown lunules on its inner side ; a 

 terminal series of small brown lunules defined on inner side by a 

 slight waved rufous line ; cilia with yellow line at base, black medial 

 line and black and white tips. Hind wing with the basal half 

 orange-yellow, its outer edge angled at middle, the terminal half 

 red-brown ; cilia white tinged with rufous at base ; the underside 

 with the costal area irrorated with rufous, the terminal area suffused 

 with red-brown, postmedial line bent outwards below costa, then 

 oblique waved. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the apical silvery markings obsolescent. 



Hah. Colombia, Minca {H. H. Smith), type t 6 in Coll. Druce ; 

 Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul. E.iy. 30 millim, 



*3390. Argyrostrotis d3&&ttmaiia. (Plate CXX. fig. 25.) 



Eriopus decumana. Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 110. f. 25 (1874). 

 Thyria satana, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. See. sxx. p. 164 (1904). 



S . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with dark brown and 

 yellowish ; tegulse with black patches near base and indistinct 

 medial line ; abdomen yellowish white dorsally tinged with rufous 

 except at base. Fore wing red-brown irrorated and suffused with 

 dark brown ; subbasal line black defined on outer side by yellowish, 

 excurved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line blnck defined on 

 inner side by yellowish, obliquely excurved and minutely waved ; 

 orbicular defined by yellowish, its outer edge produced to a point 

 in discal fold ; reniform with oblique silvery white bar on inner 

 edge followed by a dark line, then a yellowish lunule and curved 



