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TRACHYSCHISTIS, n. g. 

 Ciiaracters of Proschistis, but forewings with large tufts of scales. 



Trachyschistis Mans, n. sp. 



2 . 24 mm. Head, thorax purple-brownish mixed lighter and 

 darker. Palpi purple-brownish suffused dark grey anteriorly. 

 Forewings elongate -triangular, termen hardly oblique; brown 

 irregularly clouded purplish ; costa obscurely strigulated dark 

 fuscous; a large oblitjue ridgetuft beneath middle of disc, several 

 tufts towards dorsum, and a transverse ridge-tuft before tornus ; a 

 somewhat raised slightly curved inwards-oblique whitish mark on 

 end of cell ; an upwards-oblique purple-fuscous fasciate streak from 

 middle of termen : cilia brownish. Hindwings grey, somewhat 

 mottled darker ; cilia whitish-grey, a grey subbasal shade. 



Queensland, Bulimba, September ; 1 ex. (Coll. Lower). 



Argyroploce pachypleura, n. sp. 

 (5.12 mm. Head, palpi, thorax dark ashy-grey. Porewings 

 somewhat dilated, termen somewhat sinuate beneath apex ; dark 

 fuscous, crossed by sulf used obscure purplish-grey striae somewhat 

 sprinkled whitish ; costa witli irregularly arranged groups of very 

 fine whitish strigulte ; dorsal area from 5 to | more distinctly 

 striated transversely with white irroration ; ocellus obscurely 

 margined anteriorly with leaden, and posteriorly with whitislx 

 irroration, and including four indistinct dark dashes ; a small dark 

 purple-grey apical spot edged with fine whitish strigulae above 

 and lieneath. Hindwings dark grey ; a thickened fold along 

 dorsum, filled with dark grey scales ; cilia grey. 



PiJi, Lautoka, March {GreemuooJ) ; 1 ex. (Brit. Mus.). 



Argyroploce arithnietica, n. sp. 



(^ . Id mm. Head, thorax light rosy-ochreous, forehead suffused 

 dark grey. Palpi pale rosy-ochreous, anterior edge and very small 

 terminafjoint dark grey. Forewings costa moderately and evenly 

 arched, termen vertical; light rosy-ochreous; costa anteriorly 

 strigulated blackish and whitish, posteriorly brownish-rosy with 

 pairs of whitish strigulse enclosing very oblique short fine blue- 

 leaden strigte; a semicircular patch of ochreous- whitish suti'usion 

 stritiulated greyish-rosy occupying median third of dorsum and 

 reaching half across wing, edged by a band of rosy-browuish 

 suffusion towards posterior extremity suffused dark grey and marked 

 blackish; a subterminal scries of nine fine black whitish-edged 

 dashes near posterior part of costa and termen : cilia pale rosy, 

 round apex brownish-tinged and with a grey basal line, beneath 

 tornus bluish-grey. Hindwings dark grey, lighter anteriorly ; 

 cilia light grey. 



UCKENSLAND, Cairus {Dodd) ; 1 ex. (Coll. Lower). 



