ARGYROLERIDIA. By Dr. K. Jordan. 
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black with blue sheen and a large glossy blue median patch. Underside of forewing with white discal band 
and a small white cell-spot, the base blue. Hindwing with a large glossy blue basal area, which is about 
twice as wide behind as in front; fringes with white spot before the anal angle above and beneath. —• 
In the mountains of British New Guinea. 
A. mutans Roths. Body above almost as in palaea', the hindwing beneath for the greater part mutaws. 
yellow in <$, only the apex yellow in $. Forewing above with blue dots in the basal area and a narrow 
discal band, which is rather more distinct than in palaea ; hindwing with a large white median spot, which 
enters the cell and is bordered with blue; fringes of both wings without spots. The blue of the underside 
about as extended as in palaea, the white spot being shaded with blue; band of forewing interrupted by 
the veins, narrow, not reaching the costal vein. —- In the mountains of British New Guinea. 
A. lunaris R. & J. (3 b). Forewing above with cell-spot and discal band, both distinct, but more lunaris. 
or less shaded with brown; hindwing with a white central spot which is more or less luniform and does 
not enter the cell, the basal area glossy blue to the outer edge of the spot. Fringes ((J) with a white 
spot at the apex of both wings and at the anal angle of hindwing. -—- In the mountains of British New 
Guinea. 
A. resplendens R. & J. (4 b). <$: Larger than the previous species; abdomen blackish blue, ringed resplendcn 
with bluish white, underside white. Forewing bluish black, with a straight white oblique discal band and 
before the margin thin bluish grey vein-streaks. Hindwing very strongly glossy blue, with a large white 
area which reaches from the abdominal margin to the subcostal vein and is evenly rounded distally. —• 1 <$ 
from the mountains of British New Guinea. 
A. fractus Roths. (3 b). Thorax above striped and spotted with bluish white; abdomen ringed with fradns. 
bluish white, the apex orange, at least beneath; coxae with yellow hair. On the forewing a cell-spot and 
a discal band composed of 5 spots transparent white, at the base and before the distal margin blue spots, 
between band and margin 2 rows of such spots. Hindwing with 2 white spots which stand apart from one 
another, and with a blue basal smear. — Throughout New Guinea, and North Queensland. 
A. aequalis. The apex of the abdomen as well as the coxae and the base of the palpi bright orange, 
the distal abdominal segments with broad black bands beneath. The discal band of the forewing more 
straight than in fractus, the spots of the proximal postdiscal row placed in between the veins, not upon 
them. Geographically variable. Distributed from the Aru Islands to the Solomons. — caeruleotincta Luc. caeruleo- 
(3 b). Paler brown than the other races, thorax above almost without any markings, and the forewing only 
with traces of blue dots; band of forewing above extended to the costal edge; the two spots of the hind¬ 
wing well separate also in $. Queensland. — aequalis Walk. (= dohertyi Oberth.) (3 c). Blackish brown. Thorax aequalis. 
with bluish grey and white markings. Forewing with blue dots, which are more or less numerous. The 
two spots of the hindwing touch one another in $, sometimes also in Aru Islands; Dutch, German and 
British New Guinea, and Fergusson; not rare. —- capiens Lord. The white scaling on the palpi, legs and the capiens. 
underside of the abdomen less extended than in aequalis ; moreover, the blue basal area of the hindwing beneath 
reduced. In the $ the lower white spot of the hindwing is either vestigial only (in 3 of our 6 <3$) or it 
is as large as in ^aequalis; in the $ it is the same size as in caeruleotincta' and touches the central spot, which 
is also the case in one of the $<$. On Treasury Island, Salomons. — integra Jord. Band of forewing in £ Integra. 
2—-3, in $ 4 —5 mm broad, the blue spots placed close to it on its distal side well developed and usually 
united so as to form a line. Hindwing with one large white patch which, in the <$, is about as broad as 
the black marginal area and usually incised at median vein 2; in the $ the patch twice as large as in the 
and mostly twice as wide as the black margin, the abdominal margin, however, always remains black. On 
the islands of Bougainville, Choiseul, Isabel, Rendova, Guizo, Vella Lavella and Kulambangra of the Solomon 
group, collected in some numbers by Meek. — salomonis Roths. (= solomonis [Roths.] Hamps .) (2 g), of salomonis. 
which only 1 $ from Tulagi, Guadalcanal is known (in the original description the name of the locality was 
misprinted Tugela), on the contrary very closely resembles the $ of capiens, but the two spots of the hind¬ 
wing are somewhat larger and more broadly united at the median nervure, and the base of the hindwing 
beneath is more densely scaled with blue in and before the cell. 
A. concisa spec. nov. $: Head and upperside of thorax blackish olive-brown, the former with distinct concisa. 
and the latter with very feeble greyish white markings; base of palpi and the breast yellow, claspers with 
greyish yellow and black hair; abdomen black, ringed with bluish white, beneath white for the greater part, 
segments 7 and 8 entirely black. Forewing above dark purple-brown, with small blue spots near the base, 
in and beyond the middle of the costal margin, and before the distal margin on the 3 or 4 posterior veins, 
fringes white at apex; a thin white band from the tip of the areole to median 2, transsected by the vein. Hind¬ 
wing with a large, elliptical, transparent white spot which is 7 mm. long and stands about as far away from 
the base as from the abdominal margin; base dusted with blue; lie low the apex a white fringe-spot. Under¬ 
side of both wings blue at the base; forewing (as also above) without white cell-spot. — 1 $ from the foot¬ 
hills of the Snow Mts. in Dutch New Guinea. 
A. goldiei. Similar to concisa ; pronotum with yellow margin, apex of abdomen orange. Band of fore- 
