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lateral blotch touching torn us and termen and reaching J across wing, more 

 or less strigulated and edged with black, upper anterior side margined by 

 a white V-shaped mark pointing upwards, above which is a suffused green 

 spot ; three semioval spots on costa posteriorly more or less suffused with 

 black, separated by pairs of white strigulee ; some white and black scales on 

 termen : cilia dull green, irregularly barred with blackish. Hindwings 

 fuscous, rather darker in $, suffused with dark fuscous towards apex ; cilia 

 light fuscous, with dark fuscous subbasal line. 



Khasis, in October; Maskeliya, Ceylon, in May (de Mowbray): four 

 specimens. 



Argyroploce semicuUa, n. sp, 



^ 5 . 21-22 mm. Head dull greenish, face dark fuscous. Palpi ascending, 

 dull greenish, suffused with dark fuscous beneath and towards apex. Thorax 

 dull green, crest suffused with ferruginous-brown. Abdomen dark grey. Pos- 

 terior tibiae in $ rough-scaled beneath and towards base above, Forewings 

 elongate -triangular, costa moderately, in $ beyond middle rather strongly 

 arched, apex in $ rectangular, in 9 obtuse ; termen in $ subsinuate, rather 

 oblique, in $ nearly straight, little oblique ; light dull green, indistinctly 

 strigulated with dark grey irroration ; two large subtriangular dark red-brown 

 blotches mixed with blackish resting on central and apical thirds of costa, 

 reaching £ across wing, subconfluent towards costa but including a spot of 

 ground colour more or less marked with white on upper angle of cell ; on costal 

 edge of these blotches are several pairs of whitish strigulfe, whence proceed 

 in distinct oblique purplish streaks : cilia reddish brown mixed with blackish. 

 Hindwings in $ with abrupt rounded prominence in middle of termen, concave 

 above and below this, upper margin of cell above with a ridge of dense scales, 

 dark fuscous, in $ paler and thinly scaled towards base and dorsum ; cilia 

 whitish-fuscous, with dark fuscous subbasal shade. 



1 $, Hakgala, Ceylon, in April (Green) ; 1 $, Khasis, in November. 



Argyroploce gyrotis, n. sp. 



9. 15-17 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax fuscous or brown tinged with 

 ferruginous ; palpi porrected. Abdomen dark grey. Posterior tibia3 with toler- 

 ably appressed scales. Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa gently 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, somewhat oblique ; ferruginous 

 brownish more or less overlaid with purplish-leaden- grey, markings dark 

 ferruginous-brown, partialliy finely edged with whitish ; an oblique transverse 

 blotch from dorsum marking lower half of edge of an angulated basal patch ; 

 a small triangular dorsal spot beyond this ; central fascia rather narrow, curved, 

 oblique, posterior edge well-defined, anterior sufliised and dilated into a large 

 blotch projecting downwards in disc ; a rounded blotch before middle of 

 termen, well-defined above, suffused beneath ; an oblique spot on costa at f . 

 and two or three oblique strigae beyond this : cilia ferruginous-brown, towards 

 tornus suffused with grey. Hindwings dark fuscous, lighter anteriorly ; cilia 

 grey irrorated with whitish, with dark grey subbasal shade. 



