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Show 1895.] OF THE SCHCENOBIIN.E AND CRAMBIN^. 907 Genus ARGYROSTOLA, nov. Palpi porrect, extending about the length of head, the 3rd joint hairy; maxillary palpi with a tuft of long hair at extremity, and nearly as long as the labial; frons rounded; antennas minutely serrate and fasciculate; spurs short. Fore wing with the apex rectangular; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked, and 10 anastomosing with them to form an areole; 11 becoming coincident with 12. Hind wing with veins 3, 4, 5 well separated at origin ; 6, 7 shortly stalked; the outer margin somewhat angled at vein 2. Fig. 10. Argyrostola ruficostalis, cf. \. Type. t ARGYROSTOLA RUFICOSTALIS, n. sp. o*. Silvery white; palpi, frons, fore tibiae, and tarsi rufous; a rufous stripe on shoulders. Fore wing with the costa rufous; both wings with a more or less prominent submarginal curved series of specks. Hab. Rio Janeiro, Brazil. Exp. 32-44 mm. Genus LEUCOIDES. Leucoides, Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix. p. 167 (1893). Palpi porrect, slightly scaled, and extending about twice the length of head ; maxillary palpi long and somewhat dilated with scales at extremity ; frons produced and acute ; antennae of male minutely serrate and ciliated; legs long and slender, the outer spurs about two thirds length of inner ; abdomen long; wings long and narrow. Fore wing with the apex produced and acute ; the outer margin oblique; vein 3 from angle of cell; 4, 5 stalked; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10 free; 11 becoming coincident with 12. Hind wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell; 4, 5 stalked; 6, 7 stalked. Kg. 11. Leucoidesfuscicostalis, cf. {. Type. tLEUCOiDEs FUSCICOSTALIS, Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix. p. 168, pi. 172. f. 18. Ceylon. |
