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leaden striga close beneath it from beyond middle ; sides of ocellus marked 

 by broad undefined bluish-leaden suffusion ; a white longitudinal strigula 

 beneath apex : cilia light red-brownish, with a blackish-grey subbasal line, at 

 apex more or less spotted with blackish-grey. Hindwings dark fuscous, rather 

 thinly scaled, becoming blackish-fuscous posteriorly ; cilia grey, with dark 

 fuscous basal line, beneath apex tinged with red -brownish. 



Palnis, 6,000 feet (Campbell) : Khasis ; from August to October, eight 

 specimens. 



Argyroploce tetanota, n. sp, 



^ 9* '^l--3 mm. Head and thorax brownish sprinkled with whitish- 

 ochreous, forehead darker reddish-bvown. Palpi ascending, brownish or 

 reddish-brown, sometimes sprinkled with dark fuscous. Abdomen rather dark 

 fuscous, in ^ with large median lateral expansible tuft of hairs. (Posterior 

 tibiae in ^ broken.) Forewings elongate, rather dilated, costa slightly arched, 

 apex obtuse, termen somewhat rounded, rather oblique : dark fuscous more or 

 less sprinkled with ochreous-whitish, appearing irregularly strigulated ; two 

 pairs of whitish costal strigulaa before middle, three beyond middle, and two 

 single ones towards apex ; basal half crossed by irregular suffused subconfluent 

 dark leaden striaj ; five oblique leaden lines from postmediam costal strigulae 

 uniting near costa to form two broad dark leaden streaks crossing wing to 

 before and beyond tornus ; some whitish marking on termen beneath apex 

 and below middle : cilia brownish sprinkled with ochreous-whitish, indistinctly 

 barred, with dark fuscous subbasal line. Hindwing fuscous, with broad 

 terminal band of dark fuscous suffusion ; dorsum in ^ forming a pocket filled 

 with long expansible hairs above ; cilia whitish fuscous, with fuscous subbasal 

 line, in $ beneath with bright violet reflections. 



Khasis, in July ; two specimens. Allied to aprohola, Meyr. 



Argyroploce rupifera, n. sp. 



$ 9. ■*J-17 mm. Head and thorax pale brownish mixed with fuscous 

 thorax with indications of angulated transverse bars. Palpi subascending. 

 whitish-ochreous, second joint with two blackish spots near upper edge, and a 

 patch of indigo-blackish suffusion towards apex beneath. Abdomen dark 

 fuscous, anal tuft of $ mixed with ochreous-yellowish. Posterior tibise in ^ 

 above with a median tuft of expansible ochreous-whitish hairs. Forew'ings 

 elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen some- 

 what sinuate, nearly vertical, rounded beneath ; fuscous, sometimes much 

 mixed with leaden, tips of all scales whitish, all markings edged with whitish ; 

 costal edge dark fuscous strigulated with white ; basal patch indicated by 

 some irregular brown or dark fuscous marks, edge angulated ; a dark brown 

 trapezoidal blotch extending on dorsum from f to |, broadest anteriorly, 

 reaching nearly half across wing ; a more or less marked semioval brown spot 

 on costa beyond middle, marked posteriorly with an oblique leaden striga : 

 an irregular sinuate fuscous or dark fuscous streak rising in disc before middle 

 and running to termen beneath apex ; a triangular patch of leaden striation 



