DESCRIPTIOXS OF INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 605 



Khasis, in June and July ; nine specimens. 



Argijroploce aeraria, n. sp, 



^9. 1.M5 ram. Head, palpi, and thorax whitish-ochreous, sometimes 

 faintly losy-tinged. palpi ascending. Abdomen blackish, segmental margins 

 yellow. Posterior tibia; with ap pressed scales. Forewings elongate, posteriorly 

 dilated, costa slightly arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen shghtly rounded, 

 somewhat oblique ; varying from olive-greenish or brownish-ochreous to bright 

 deep ferruginous, sometimes partially sprinkled with black; usually more or lesa 

 distinctly ferruginous towards tornus ; three cloudy streaks varying from 

 pale pinkish to orange, viz., costal and median streaks from base to near 

 middle, and one from near costa before apex to near middle of dorsum ; some 

 irregular scattered blue-leaden marks specially on a longitudinal supramedian 

 series ; area between these streaks and beneath median sometimes suffused with 

 dark red-brown, sometimes partly mixed with black ; apical area sometimes 

 suffused with crimson : cilia varying from ochreous to ferruginous. Hindwings 

 with 3 and '4 usually short-stalked ; blackish ; an irregular variable orange- 

 yellow streak in disc from base to middle, slenderly attenuated anteriorly, and 

 an elongate-triangular spot above its posterior extremity ; cilia whitish, with 

 blackish basal line. 



Khasis, from December to March ; fourteen specimens. 



Arrjyrojjloce Solaris, n. sp. 



9- 14-15 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous tinged with rosy, and 

 mixed with reddish-fuscous and dark fuscous. Palpi ascending, whitish- 

 ochreous tinged with rosy, with one or two blackish dots. Abdomen blackish, 

 segmental margins orange. Posterior tibite with appressed scales. Forewings 

 elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa slightly arched, apex rounded-obtuse termen, 

 almost straight, rather oblique ; reddish-fuscous, more or less rosy-tinged, 

 irregularly mixed with ochreous-whitish and sprinkled with dark fuscous; 

 numerous irregularly scattered small dark leaden-grey marks or striguloc, some- 

 limes partly marked with black, the most conspicuous being two irregular 

 oblique spots from costa at i and h, and a smaller spot at § ; costal edge yellow- 

 ish ; a fine black terminal line : cilia reddish-fuscous, mixed with ochreous- 

 whitish, and somewhat barred irregularly with blackish, Hindwings bright 

 orange ; irregular black costal, submedian, and dorsal streaks, connected with a 

 broad black terminal fascia ; cilia orange, base blackish round apex and upper 

 part of termen. 



Khasis, in October and November ; three specimens. A specimen from 

 same locality, with similar hindwings, but forewings deep coppery-orange with 

 numerous irregular dark leaden-grey spots is probably a variety only, though 

 at first sight very different. 



Argyroploce calUcratis, n. sp, 



^. 15 mm, Head dark fuscous mixed with white. Palpi ascending, white 

 Thorax greyish -white, with a small spot on each shoulder, a cruciform mark on 

 back, and two posterior spots black. AVxlomen blackish, segmental margins 



