5r)0 AGARISTID^. 



Subsp. 2. tlmorensis, Eoths. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 48 (1896). 

 (5" . Pore wing with the oblique postmedial series of spots white ; 

 the spot in cell reduced ; hind wing with the maculate crimson 

 band replaced by obsolescent whitish spots. 



Hab. Dutch Timor, Oinainisa {Dolierty). Type f in Coll. 

 Kothschild. 



Subsp. 3. dcsmonis, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xviii. p. 249 (1876) ; Kirby, Cat- 

 Het. p. 21. 



2 . Fore wing with the orange medial and postmedial spots 

 obsolete ; hind wing wdth the crimson maculate band represented 

 by traces of a spot above tornus, more distinct on underside. 



Hah. N. Guinea, Pt. Moresby, 1 $ type. 



Larva. Scott, Austral. Lep. i. p. 25, pi. 8. 



White ; head, legs, prolegs, a baud between somites 3 and 4, and 

 a large dorsal patch on penultimate somite orange ; each somite 

 with a black band somewhat expanding dorsally and ventrally ; 

 a white subdorsal striga on the orange band after thoracic somites ; 

 the intersomital folds yellowish ; about eight black setae flattened 

 and expanding towards extremity on each somite. Food-plant, 

 Vitis heterophylla. 



Genus ARGYROLEPIDIA, nov. 



Type, A. vamphilia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with hair, 

 the 3rd long, naked, somewhat porrect and dilated at extremity ; frons 

 with somewhat pointed conical prominence ; antennae hardly dilated towards 

 extremity : j^ectus hairy ; femora fringed with long hair; tibise nearly smooth, 

 the spurs well developed ; abdomen clothed with ridges of hair, male with the 

 clrtspers large and with protrusible lateral tufts of hair at base. Fore wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 from well above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with vein 2 from toM^ards angle of cell ; 3, 4 from angle ; 5 obsolescent from 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



A. Hind wing without white spots below and beyond cell. 



a. Hind wing with the basal area metallic blue novtB-hihernim. 



h. Hind wing with the basal area not metallic blue jpamphila. 



B. Hind wing with white spots below and beyond cell. 



a. Fore wing with blue spots at base. 

 a^. Hind wing without white in cell. 



«^ Abdomen with black patch on anal tuft fracta. 



IP'. Abdomen without black patch on anal tuft eequalis. 



¥. Hind wing with the end of cell white, the two 

 spots conjoined 



b. Fore wing without blue spots at base cmruleotincta. 



*44. Argyrolepidia novae-Mbernise. (Plate LII. fig. 9.) 



Agarista novm-liihernicB, Boisd. Voy. Astrolabe, Lep. p. 178 (1832) ; Kirbj^, 

 ■ Cat. Het. p. 23. 



S . Black ; palpi with the 1st joint in front and the 1st and 2nd 

 behind orange, the 2nd and 3rd with some white scales ; frons 

 and vertex of head white at sides ; tegulse with white point at 



