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CALLARGYRA; SELAMBlNA; ARGYROSTICTA. By Dr. M. Dratjdt. 
accurata . 
bayni. 
trajiciens. 
ditissima. 
triangula¬ 
ris. 
amoenita. 
bellinita. 
meres. 
vau-aurea. 
eurysaces. 
C. accurata Edw. (35 a) is also somewhat similar to the preceding, but it has larger, light, below 
confluent maculae, the cell between them being darkened. Hindwing cpiite light reddish-brown with purely 
white fringes. Washington, Arizona. 
29. Genus: Callargyra Hmps. 
This genus hitherto contains but one South-American species separated from the preceding by a feeble 
longitudinal keel on the frons, loose tufts on the prothorax and metathorax, and a parted tuft on the mesothorax; 
the anterior tarsi exhibit outside on the first joint very much bent claw-like spines; the abdomen shows on 
the first ring a large tuft, on the two next rings smaller tufts. 
C. bayni Hmps. (35 a). Forewing greyish-brown, in some places mixed with reddish-yellow; the 
white transverse lines are on both sides bordered with black, they are intensely notched and nearing each other 
below the cell, and connected at the hind-margin; the ring-macula is a white dot, the white reniform macula 
hook-shaped and inwardly produced on the median, centred with yellow; the marginal area is a yellow notched 
band, the apex is parted bv a yellow oblique stripe. Hindwing white, at the margin broad red-brown. Argentina. 
30. Genus: Selainhiiia Wkr. 
Proboscis fully developed, frons smooth, male antennae serrate and ciliated; the thorax is almost purely 
clad with scales, with loose tufts on the prothorax and metathorax, legs unarmed, abdomen tuftless. Likewise 
only 1 species. 
S. trajiciens Wkr. (35 a). The fiery red forewing is irrorated with brown in the costal area down as 
far as the median, with purely white transverse lines being bordered with black, the maculae being white; 
behind the distal line the veins are black-striped. The white hindwing is irrorated with fiery red at the margin. 
Brazil (Petropolis in the Organ Mountains, Rio de Janeiro). 
31. Genus: Argyrostfeta Hbn. 
Very closely allied to the preceding genus and chiefly separated by tufts on the first abdominal rings, 
the second of which is particularly long and above bipartite, the anal tuft being also bipartite. Hind tibiae 
of <$ with extraordinarily long hair-tufts. The genus contains quite a number of mostly beautifully red- 
coloured species decorated with silvery spots. From Southern America. 
A. ditissima Wkr. (= fulgida Fldr., croesita Schs.) (35 a). Forewing yellow mixed with red-brown, 
with yellow veins, with double black transverse lines filled up with yellow, instead of the maculae with silvery 
spots, in the apical part of the marginal area with large silvery spots. Abdomen and hindwing orange as in 
the following species. — In ab. triangularis Strd. (= ab. 1 . Hmps.) the silvery spot behind the lower cell-angle 
is triangular, in the type obliquely oval. — Most widely distributed from Mexico to Paraguay. 
A. amoenita Cr. (= ditissima part. Drc.) (35 a) is somewhat similar to the preceding and differs in 
the more pinkish ground-colour, particularly in the red filling of the transverse lines; the silvery maculae are 
below connected, and the subapical silvery spots are much smaller and not in a double row, but only consist 
of a small angular spot with 2 small ones below behind it. Known from Panama and Surinam. 
A. bellinita Gn. (35 a) resembles amoenita except the subapical silvery spots which are here quite 
absent; the transverse lines are neither double, but single, the anterior line bordered with pink on the inside, 
the distal line on both sides bordered with pink. The expanse of the wings is smaller. Panama to Brazil. 
A. meres Drc. (35 a) on the whole resembles ditissima , but it has a blackish-brown dorsal stripe on 
the abdomen by which it is at once discernible. The transverse lines are single, and on the averted sides 
bordered with grey not yellow or pink. Widely distributed from Colombia, Ecuador, Guiana, and Brazil. 
A. vau-aurea Hmps. (35 b) by the absence of the subapical silvery spots recalls bellinita but it is much 
larger, and on the abdomen it exhibits the brownish-black dorsal stripe of meres; the ground-colour is more 
a yellowish blackish-brown, the transverse lines are bordered with yellowish. Trinidad and British Guiana. 
A. eurysaces Schs. (35 b) has likewise an orange abdomen being above striped blackish-brown, the 
tw r o last rings also being dark. Ground-colour in the basal half more steel-coloured grey, only at the hind- 
margin, postmedianly, and at the distal margin somewhat brown, subterminally again steel-grey; above the 
reniform macula there is a triangular area edged by white lines; the dark brown undulate line is in some places 
bordered with white. A very small species of an expanse of only 16 mm. Surinam. 
