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liairs from sides. Posterior tibiae short, tufted with long dense 

 greyish hairscales beneath. Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, 

 costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, some- 

 what oblique ; light bluish-green ; costa dotted and strigulated 

 with blackish ; basal patch and central fascia deeper green, edge 

 of basal patch slightly curved, central fascia moderately broad, 

 oblique, narrowed towards costa, posterior edge with a median 

 prominence marked with black and finely edged with white ; 

 three small dark fuscous spots on costa posteriorly and one at apex, 

 separated by white strigula), some irregxdar green and dark fuscous 

 markings beneath these, and a subtriangular dark fuscous blotch 

 resting on middle of termen, the two upper sides well-defined and 

 edged with whitish, the base irregular, hollowed out and suffused 

 with groundcolour : cilia light grey somewhat mixed with whitish, 

 obscurely barred with darker grey. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia 

 light grey, towards tips whitish, with dark grey subbasal line, on 

 dorsum tufted with long dense whitish-grey hairs, with a dark 

 fuscous hairpeucil from near dorsal edge in middle projecting in 

 these. 



Kanaka, Kur, in October {Maxivell) ; Ceylon, Haputale, in 

 February {Pole) ; two specimens. 



Argyroploce ptilosoma, n. sp. 



cJ . 17 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax light greenish. Abdomen 

 dark grey, with very long lateral dark grey tufts of hairs except 

 towards base. Posterior tibise tufted with dense dark grey scales 

 above. Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa gently 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen almost straight, little oblique ; light 

 green, strewn with blackish strigulse, costa marked throughout 

 with blackish strigulae ; some blackish suffusion towards dorsum 

 from base to middle ; central fascia towards middle of disc suffusedly 

 marked with blackish and edged posteriorly with whitish, otherwise 

 little defined ; a roundish blotch resting on termen in middle sur- 

 rounded with whitish suffusion, its lower half suffused with blackish: 

 cilia dull greenish mixed with blackish except on tornus. Hind- 

 wings dark grey, thinly scaled towards base, vein 1 c clothed with 

 long spreading grey hairs ; cilia grey- whitish, with dark grey sub- 

 basal shade. 



S. India, Shevaroys, 4500 feet, in December (Fletcher) ; one 

 specimen. 



Eucosma trichocrossa, n. sp. 

 J . 14 mm. Head pale ochreous. Palpi grey tinged with 

 wliitish-ochreous. Thorax ochreous more or less suffusedly mixed 

 with dark fuscous. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, rather 

 narrow, posteriorly hardly dilated, costa slightly arched, without 

 fold, apex obtuse, termen faintly sinuate, somewhat oblique; 

 brownish-ochreous, paler towards dorsum, irrorated with ochreous- 

 whitish and a few dark grey scales ; cell more or less suffused with 

 dark "-rev and veins beyond it marked with dark grey lines ; costa 

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