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Stenoleuca gen. nov. 



Near Leuciris Wan-., but distinguished by the shape of tlie forewings, which 

 are hardly a third as wide as the hindwings, much elongated ; costa arched 

 and convex in its outer half; apex prolonged, but broad, and bluntly rounded; 

 hindmargin very oblique ; inner margin only two-thirds as long as costa. Hindwings 

 ver}' broad, quite as broad as long, with hindmargin ellipticaliy rounded. Palpi 

 exceedingly minute ; antennae of c? pubescent, as in Jimbrialis Stoll. 



Type : S. distoHa sj). nov. 



Stenoleuca distorta sp. nov. 



Forewings pearly white, with tiie costa brilliantly golden to beyond the 

 middle, thence to apex luteous ; hind border luteous, straight, edged internally 

 by a dark shaded, silvery margined, metallic line ; this line runs from the costa 

 before the apex to the inner margin before the anal angle, and as the hindmai-gin 

 of the wing is very oblique, the luteous border of the wing is broader on the 

 costa than at the inner margin ; a row of gilded lozenge-shaped spots towards 

 the outside of the luteous border, tlie lower .seven in a direct straight line, the 

 uppermost at an angle with the rest; a dark indi.stinct cell-streak; fringes white, 

 Hindwings like forewings. Thorax and abdomen white ; collar, face, and antennae 

 luteous. Underside dull white, with all the markings showing dull ; costa of 

 forewings in basal half bronzv fuscous. 



Expanse of wings : 2i) mm. 



One <S. 



Subfamily PALYADINAE. 

 This subfamily is characterised by the absence of the frenulum. 



Argyroplutodes gen. nov. 



Distinguished from the allied forms by the elongated forewings with ipiite 

 round apex and hindmargin, and by the transverse lines of silver-studded spots 

 across them. The character of the markings recalls Plutodes. 



Type : A. limbofjuUata Felder (Paly as). 



Arg^otome gen. nov. 



Forewings with costa gradually curved ; apex blunt ; hindmargin curved. Hind- 

 wings with hindmargin fully rounded, entire. Antennae simple in both sexes; jialjii 

 porrect, short ; tongue present ; hind tibiae of (? with four spurs. Neuration 

 normal; scaling glossy. Distinguished from its allies by having a large ocelloid 

 marking on discocellular of forewings, and no metallic ocellus on hindwings. 



Type : ..4. laira Oberth. {Ephyra). 



Argyrotome notata sp. nov. 



Wings pure white, with a few scattered l)ro\vn scales; tlie Hues indicated l)y 



brown spots ; the first by three spots, a small one on the subcostal, and two larger 



ones on the median and submedian, the former at the origin of the first m<dian 



nervule ; second line curved, gently denticulate, forming spots on the veins, a:id 



