DESCRIPTIONS OF INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. r.97 



apex obtuse, termen slightly sinuate, hurdly oblique ; bright coppery-ferru- 

 ginous, the ground colour mostly overlaid by snflPuaed confluent light violet- 

 grey striaj ; a broad undefined streak of dark ferruginous-brown sufl'usion 

 along dorsum, including in middle an undefined elongate-triangular patch of 

 pale grey strigulation. sometimes sprinkled with blackish : cilia ferruginous- 

 brown, mixed with whitish-ochrcous and sometimes pale leaden-grey, towards 

 tips whitish on a subapical patch. Hindwings on basal half dark fuscous, 

 thinly scaled, outer half blackish-fuscous; in $ with dorsal groove clothed 

 with long pale ochreous and whitish hairs ; cilia white, with dark fuscous 

 basal shade. 



Khasis, from December to March ; sixteen specimens. 



Argijroploce Jibrala, n, sp. 



(J 9- iCf-l^ mm. Head whitish-ochreous. forehead and sides of crown 

 suffused with red-brown. Palpi porrected. pale ochreous sprinkled centrally 

 with reddish-fuscous, beneath whitish. Thorax pale ochreous suffused with 

 red-brown and sprinkled with blackish, patagia suffused with ochreous-whitish 

 towards tips. Abdomen fuscous, anal tuft of ^ mixed with ochreous-whitish. 

 Posterior tibia) and first joint of tarsi in ^ clothed above with dense long 

 expansible whitish hairs. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa moderately 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, somewhat oblique ; red-brown, 

 sprinkled with blackish, tending to form longitudinal streaks on veins, dorsal 

 third especially strongly streaked with black sufftision and more or less mixed 

 with white between the streaks : extreme costal edge white, with more or less 

 marked pairs of oblique whitish strigulse, interspaces more or less irrorated 

 with blackish ; oblique bluish leaden strigae rising from these, with indications 

 of transverse stiiae on posterior portion of wing, and transverse streaks mar- 

 gining ocellus, but all these sometimes almost wholly obsolete : cilia whitish- 

 ochreous suffused with red-brown, more or less barred with blackish ii-roration. 

 Hindwings dark grey, in ^ with dorsal fold enclosing an expansible pencil of 

 long blackish hairs becoming yellowish towards base ; cilia whitish, with grey 

 subbasal line. 



Khasis, in September and October : four specimens. 



Argyroploce metacte.nis,n. sp. 



$. ly mm. Head whitish-ochreous, on crown more or less suffused with 

 ferinjgi nous-brown. Palpi subascending, fuscous sprinkled with whitish, 

 beneath and towards base whitish, second joint with median bar and subbasal 

 dot of blackish suffusion. Thorax light Inownish, crest suffused with ferru- 

 ginous. Abdomen rather dark fuscous, anal tuft mixed with whitish-ochreous. 

 Posterior tibiae and tarsi tufted with long expansible ochreous-whitish and 

 gi-ey hairs above. Forewings elongate, rather dilated posteriorly, costa gently 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, little oblique ; brownish, longitu- 

 dinally striated and largely suffused with brown-whitish ; veins in disc more 

 or less marked with brown-reddish ; costa strigulated with reddish-fuscous 

 and black uroration : two or three very oblique dull reddish striga; beneath 



