552 AGARISTID^. 



and 4 conjoined to a diffused terminal series, the underside with 

 the basal half silvery blue, extending on inner area to tornus and 

 including a black discoidal bar. 



Hah. Amboina {J. J. Walker), 1 c? ; Ceram, type t (S micacea 

 in Mus. Oxon. Ea^p. 48 millim. 



*46. Argyrolepidia fracta. (Plate LIl. fig. 11.) 



Pkalcs7ioides fr actus, Roths. Nov, Zool. vi. p. 432 (1899). 



Head and thorax black-brown mixed with white hair ; frons 

 white at sides ; palpi with the 2nd joint in front and behind, and 

 neck yellowish ; the coxae and fore femora fringed with yellow hair ; 

 abdomen dorsally banded black and white, the ventral surface 

 white, the anal tuft orange with black dorsal patch. Fore wing 

 black-brown, with two small blue spots below base of costa and two 

 on median nervure, larger spots at base of inner margin and above 

 vein 1 before middle ; a quadrate white spot in middle of cell ; a 

 sinuous series of five spots between veins 7 and 2 beyond the cell, 

 with a series of blue points beyond them ; a postmedial blue spot 

 on vein 1 and a subtermiual series of points. Hind wing black, 

 with blue streak below base of cell ; a medial white spot below the 

 cell, and a spot beyond the cell traversed by a blue streak on 

 vein 4 ; cilia chequered black and white. Underside with the base 

 suff'iised with silvery blue, on hind wing extending along inner 

 margin nearly to tornus. 



Hab. N. Guinea, Kapaur, type t in Coll. Rothschild, Milne Bay ; 

 Queensland. Kvp. 40 millim. 



47. Argyrolepidia aequalis. 



Agarista csqualis, Wlk. xxxi. 47 (1864); Swinh. Cat. Het, Mus. Oxen. 



p. 169 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 23. 

 ThalcBnoides dohertyi, Obertb. Et. Ent. xix. p. 24, pi. v. f. 28 (1894). 



(S . Black-brown tinged with blue; palpi fringed with orange 

 hair and with some white in front ; sides of frons, basal joint of 

 antennae, spots on vertex of head, guise, edges of tegulae, and spots 

 on patagia white ; front of pectus and the hair on fore coxae and 

 femora orange, the hair on back of pectus and stripes on legs white ; 

 abdomen banded with white, the bands confiuent on ventral 

 surface, the terminal segment orange. Eore wing with short 

 brilliant blue streak below base of vein 1, a spot at base, subbasal 

 spots below costa and cell followed by spots below costa and in cell, 

 and by antemedial spots below costa and above vein 1 ; a white 

 spot in middle of cell, and an oblique maculate band beyond the cell 

 from vein 7 to below 3 ; a blue spot below base of vein 2 ; a curved 

 postmedial series of spots below costa and between vein 4 and inner 

 margin; a subterminal series of spots obsolescent towards costa; 

 cilia white at apex and near tornus. Hind wing shot with brilliant 

 blue ; large white spots below end of cell and beyond discocellulars ; 



