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ARGYROLEPIDIA. By Dr. K. Jordan. 
not separate. — The only species which belongs here is placed by Hampson, and also in the Palearctic volume 
3 of the present work, under Ophthalmis, but differs from that genus in the perfectly setiform antennae, 
and also does not well agree with Argyrolepidia on account of the short third segment of the palpi and 
the position of median 2 in the forewing. 
C. funebris. Body black above, yellow beneath, head and thorax with white markings above, ab¬ 
dominal segment 1 edged with white on upperside, the other segments having yellow margins. Wings 
with dull white markings; forewing with rows of bluish spots before the margin; fringes of both wings che- 
fnrtebris. quered with white. North India, China and Formosa. — funebris Moore (3 f). In contradistinction to the 
Chinese form vithoroides Leech (cf. vol. 3, p. 58, pi. 1 f) the white band of the hindwing is not divided 
in the cell by a black transverse line. The discal spots of the hindwing are sometimes suppressed. Sikkim, As- 
cognaia. sam. — cognata subsp. nov. A- differs from vithoroides in the larger extent of the white colouring on the 
hindwing, the white discal band being broader than the black median band with the exception of the 
two spots between radials 1 and 3. Moreover, the proximal postdiscal row of spots on the forewing consists 
of white and larger spots. Horisha, Formosa. 
22. Genus: Argyrolepidia Hamps. 
Antennae setiform, not being incrassate between centre and apex, distally slightly compressed. 
Eyes naked. Frons conical, with or without raised ring. Hindwing rough-hairy above at the base. Fore- 
wing with areole, from which the second subcostal branches off; radials 2 and 3 and median 1 close together, 
medians 1 and 2 about as far apart at the cell as at the margin. In the hind wing median 2 near apex of 
cell. — Some of the species are dealt with under Phalaenoides by Hampson, but all differ in the antennae 
not being incrassate. A Papuan genus. The early stages are not known of any species. 
Odice Hbn., Verz., was erected for pamphilia and 4 other Heterocera. The first species which agrees with the 
description is 0. acharia Cr., Pap. Ex. pi. 346 C, which, for that reason, should be regarded as the type of Odice. 
a) Head and thorax above not yellow. 
A. pamphilia. Black, palpal segment 1, throat, fore coxae and apex of abdomen orange, abdomen 
ringed with blue-white. Forewing above with a white cell-dot and white discal band; distally of the 
latter two macular bands and in the basal area several spots glossy blue. Hindwing usually spotted with 
glossy blue at the margin, there being blue spots or traces of such in the cell and often also below it; fringes 
ombiranus. white. Moluccas. - ombiranus Lord. The blue markings of the upperside vestigial, the white discal band 
of the forewing 3—4 mm. broad. The blue markings are also reduced beneath, but similarly arranged on the 
wrirlina. forewing as in the following forms. 1 $ known, from Obi. — madina subsp. nov. A'- The blue markings well 
developed, the white band of the forewing narrow; the blue marginal spots of the hindwing forming a 
band which widens behind and reaches from the apex or subcostal to the lower median. On the underside 
the forewing bears a blue band distally to the white band. Mt. Mada, Buru, 5 AS collected in September. 
pamphilia. — pamphilia Stoll (= eusebia Stoll, micacea Walk., ceramensis Kirby) (3 c). The blue marginal band of the 
upperside of the hindwing abruptly widened in front of the lower median. Underside of forewing of A 
without blue discal band or at most with vestiges of such. Amboina, Ceram. 
nova chi- A. novaehiberniae Bdv. (3 b). Similar to the preceding species, but the basal area of the hindwing 
h'num. ^ exc p 0 f cos tal margin) metallic blue. — Bismarck Archipelago: New Mecklenburg, New Hanover; in the 
Tring-Museum 2 AS, 1 ¥• 
A. leonora. Thorax above with bluish grey transverse markings; abdomen bluish black, above not 
at all or only indistinctly marked with light edges, apex orange; coxae, underside of femosa and centre of mid 
tibia rusty orange. On the forewing a cell-spot and a discal macular band white, the following markings 
being blue, viz., an angle-shaped line at the base, further distally a transverse line, a spot below the cell, 
a discal line which curves basad in front of the hind angle and then runs to the hind margin, and in front 
of the distal margin a row of spots. Hindwing black, with a yellowish white macular band from the anal 
leonora. angle to radial 3 or 2. Fringes spotted white andblack. Tropical Australia. —- leonora Dbl. The band of the hindwing 
tasso. distant from the outer margin. North-West Australia: Pt. Darwin and Pt. Essington. — tasso subsp. nov. 
(3g). The band of the hindwing close to the margin and somewhat broader than in true leonora, the first 
spot being as long as its distance from the outer margin. Cedar Bay, south of Cooktown, Queensland, 4 AS- 
aethrias. A. aethrias Turn. (-- cyanobasis Hamps.) (4 c). Head and thorax black with yellowish white mark¬ 
ings; breast with yellowish white hair, centre of mid tibia orange; abdomen above bluish grey, beneath 
white proximally and orange distally, apex orange. Forewing above with 4 whitish yellow spots along the 
hind margin and a discal band of the same colour; this band extends to the lower median, and is constricted 
in the centre, the lower half being produced into 3 teeth on the distal side; a number of small spots 
in and before the cell and a row of spots before the distal margin blue; fringes white at the apex and 
ill front of the hind angle. Hindwing black, the fringes spotted with white; basal half greenish yellow, this 
area being extended to the anal angle on the underside. — North-West Australia. 
pataca. A. palaea R. & J. (3a). Olive-brown; abdominal segments thinly edged with blue-white, coxae 
and hair of femora orange. Forewing above brown, with a feeble vestige of a pale discal band. Hindwing 
