DESCRIPTIONS OF INDIAN MICJiO-LEPIDOPTERA. 593 



a triangulai- spot of blackish suffusion : cilia yellow-brown sprinkled with 

 ochi-eous- whitish, on upper part of tormen indistinctly barred with blackish. 

 Hindwings rather dark fuscous ; dorsal area somewhat dilated and clothed with 

 hairs • cilia ochreous-whitish tinged with a brownish subbasal lino. 



Bentota. Ceylon ; one specimen, bred in January from larva feeding in fruit 

 of Burrimjtonia racemosa (Green ), 



Argyroplocc oedalea, n. sp. 



^ 9- 19-20 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous more or less tinged or 

 mixed with red-brownish. Palpi ascending, white, more or less tinged or mixed 

 with red-brownish except towards base, in ^ very slightly. Abdomen in 

 ^ dark brown, in $ dark grey. Posterior femora and basal half of tibiae in 

 ^ with long fine expansible white hairs beneath. Forewings elongate, posteri- 

 orly, dilated, costa slightly sinuate in middle, rather abruptly arched posteriorly, 

 apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, hardly oblique, rounded beneath ; in ^ 

 brownish-ochreous, in $ red-brownish, more or less strewn with scattered black 

 scales : costa spotted and strigulaied with black ; several black strigulai towards 

 costa before middle ; a cloudy streak of whitish-ochreous suffusion running 

 beneath posterior part of costa and before upper portion of termen, margining 

 an undefined posterior discal patch sometimes irregularly mixed with black and 

 dark leaden, containing a tuft of long raised white and pale brown scales on 

 transverse vein, more elongated in ^ ; several minute black dashes in the 

 whitish-ochreous streak towards costa posteriorly ; sometimes some short dark 

 blue-leaden marks beneath costa posteriorly and a line almost on apical edge ; 

 series of more or less marked black strigulse on and before termen : cilia whitish- 

 ochreous, with two brownish shades and indications of darker bars. Hindwings 

 dark grey ; cilia grey-whitish, with dark grey subbasal and light fuscous 

 subapical shades. 



Kandy and Peradeniya, Ceylon, from July to September (Green) : three 

 specimens. Specially characterised by the discal tuft of scales. 



Arijijroploce d'/serta, n. sp. 



$ $. 24-25 mm. Head red -brownish, mixed with dark fuscous and white, 

 lower half of face white. Palpi ascending, brownish mixed with dark fuscous, 

 banded with white. Thorax dark fuscous mixed with white. Abdomen fus- 

 cous, and tuft of $ whitish-ochreous. Posterior tibife clothed with long rough 

 white hairs above and beneath, longer in $. Forewings elongate-triangular, 

 costa rather abruptly bent at §, apex obtuse, termen almost straight, nearly 

 vertical, rounded beneath ; light reddish-brown, densely mixed and strigulated 

 throughout with blackish : disc irregularly mixed with white on basal half ; a 

 transverse series of three roundish leaden-grey spots irregularly edged and con- 

 nected with white, extending from near costa at § to near tornus ; a blue-leaden 

 almost marginal interrupted line round apex and termen : cilia leaden-grey, 

 basal half light brown-reddish, suft'usedly barred with blackish. Hindwing 

 dark fuscous : cilia whitish-fuscous, with two dark fuscous shades. 



Khasis, in September : two specimens. 



