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costa posteriorly ; a transverse mark of dull reddish suffusion with some black 

 irroration on end of cell ; a rather broad reddish-fuscous streak mixed with 

 dark fuscous along dorsum throughout, upper edge somewhat prominent before 

 middle and at | : cilia brown whitish towards tornus tinged with brown -reddish, 

 on middle of termen with three reddish-brown bars sprinkled with blackish, 

 Hindwings dark fuscous, lighter anteriorly ; a hyaline lanceolate spot beneath 

 base of cell ; a longitudinal pecten of whitish hairs between veins 2 and 3 ; 

 a dorsal furrow clothed with long expansible tuft of fuscous hairs : cilia 

 whitish, with dark fuscous subbasal line. 



Khasis, in October and November ; two specimens. 



Argyroploce paragrmiima, n. sp. 



$, 19 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax brownish-ochreous ; palpi subascend- 

 ing, second joint with a blackish median spot above ; thorax partly tinged with 

 grey. Abdomen dark grey. Posterior tibias rough-scaled, Forewings elon- 

 gate, moderately broad, rather dilated posteriorly, costa moderately arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen slightly sinuate, hardly oblique ; brownish-ochreous, tending to 

 be longitudinally marked with pale or ochreous-whitish lines on veins and 

 some blackish irroration between these ; costa strigulated with ochreous- 

 whitish tinged with leaden, with blackish interspaces ; three very oblique 

 bluish-leaden strigse from median third of costa, first two ending above posterior 

 portion of cell, third running almost to termen beneath apex ; a leaden-metallic 

 almost marginal striga along lower half of termen : cilia pale ochreous, above 

 middle or termen tinged with brownish, above apex with a blackish spot. 

 Hindwings dark fuscous, lighter anteriorly ; cilia ochreous-whitish tinged with 

 grey, with dark fuscous subbasal line. 



Pusa, Bengal, bred in September from stem of bamboo (Lefroy) ; one speci- 

 men. 



Argyroploce anaplecta, n. sp. 



$^. 15-16 mm. Head, palpi, thorax and abdomen dark fuscous; palpi 

 porrected, beneath and towards base white ; anal tuft of $ whitish. Posterior 

 tibiae of $ clothed above and beneath with dense (probably expansible) white 

 scales, Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa gently arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen straight, vertical ; blackish-fuscous, suffusedly striated with 

 purplish-leaden (more purplish in 9 )> except a thick streak from | of costa to 

 middle of termen, and another slightly curved from middle of costa to apex ; 

 costal extremities of striae whitish, space between these in $ tinged with bronzy- 

 brown towards costa ; ocellus filled with ground colour sprinkled with whitish ; 

 two or three white specks on termen beneath apex : cilia dark fuscous. Hind- 

 wings dark fuscous, in $ thinly scaled and subopaque except towards apex ; 

 cilia whitish-fuscous, with dark fuscous subbasal shade. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon, in February, M.&,y and June (Pole, de Mowbray) ; three 

 specimens. 



Argyroploce cyanura, n. sp, 



$ $ . 18-20 mm. Head and thorax dark leaden-fuscous. Palpi porrected, 



