524 EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 



Forewings suboblong, slightly dilated, costa gently arched, termen 

 rounded, little oblique ; dark fuscous ; basal area strigulated IjIuo- 

 leaden ; an oblique irregular fascia of interrupted blue-leaden 

 strite before middle from four small white costal strigula^ ; 

 posterior edge of central fascia defined by a fine whitish stria 

 from middle of costa to tornus, acute-triangular-prominent in 

 middle, some blue-leaden strigulation before this below middle and 

 on dorsum, beyond it a narrow light shining blue fascia finely 

 attenuated towards costa, separated by a whitish stria from a 

 curved pale grey submarginal streak marked with a series of short 

 black dashes and in middle with a spot of ferruginous-grey 

 suffusion and limited by a whitish stria partly marked metallic- 

 blue, apical edge beyond this light grey ; costal edge on posterior 

 half blackish with oblique white strigula) and marked beneath 

 ferruginous : cilia grey mixed darker, round apex suffused deep 

 ferruginous. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia whitish-grey, a dark 

 grey subbasal line. 



Ekazil, Parintins, October (Parish) ; 1 ex. 



Argyroploce conoterma, n. sp. 



5 . 16 mm. Head, palpi, thorax rosy-fuscous. Forewings 

 elongate-triangular, costa slightly arched, termen slightly rounded, 

 little oblique ; rosy-fuscous, costa with oblique darker strigulte ; 

 some light greyish sufl'usion preceding a triangular dark fuscous 

 prsetornal spot from which a light brownish-ochreous band pointed 

 above extends along termen to near apes : cilia light brownish- 

 ochreous, round apex and costa rosy-fuscous. Hindwings dark 

 fuscous ; cilia light grey, a dark fuscous basal shade. 



China, Shanghai ; 1 ex. (Coll. Joannis). Perhaps near orophias. 



Argyroploce dependens, n. sp. 



J. 16 mm. Head, thorax brownish, face whitish-ochreous. 

 Palpi whitish-ochreous, second joint speckled greyish. Forewings 

 elongate, slightly dilated, costa gently arched, termen straight, 

 hardly obli(]ue ; brownish-ochreous, somewhat sprinkled grey ; a 

 suffused dark f'uscons band extending along costa almost from base 

 to apex, on median area forming a broad-triangular patch suffused 

 beneatb with brown and extending | across wing, on costa with 

 two pairs of oblique white striguke before and three beyond 

 middle, two single white strigulai towards apex, and one beneath 

 apex ; interior of ocellus indicated by a transverse series of four 

 irregular-linear blackish-grey dots surrounded with slight brownish 

 suffusion ; a dark brown elongate mark on dorsum towards base ; 

 cilia brownish-ochreous, more brownish on upper part of termen. 

 Hindwings grey, darker towards apex ; cilia whitish-grey, a grey 

 subbasal lino. 



China, Shanghai; 1 ex. (Coll. Joannis). Allied to herbosa. 



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