g b9 
OV) 
July 30, 1912.) Indian Micro~Lepidoptera, 
hairs above, basal joint of tarsi with long projecting brush ef whitish nairs. 
Forewings suboblong, rather narrowed anteriorly, costa gently arched, 
apex obtuse, termen rounded, little oblique; pale ochreous mixed with 
brownish-ochreous and grey; basal patch strigulated with blackish, outer 
edge only defined by a small dark spot on costa and a slight angulated 
mark in disc ; central fascia irregular, brown, reaching from costa j across 
wing, strongly marked with black from costa to near middle of wing ; costa 
posteriorly dark fuscous with four pairs of grey-whitish strigulw, beneath 
this narrowly reddish-brown ; a narrow grey and brown subterminal fascia 
marked with black dashes on veins, constricted or almost interrupted in 
middie; a short brown or grey streak marked with black along median 
portion of termen: cilia brownish or fuscous irrorated with whitish, with 
two dark fuscous lines becoming obsolete towards tornus. Hindwings in 
do with subdorsal fold ; fuscous, lighter anteriorly ; cilia whitish-fuscous, 
with darker subbasal line. 
Colombo, Ceylon (Mackwood) ; Pusa (Fletcher); in July, two specimens. 
Statherotis decorata, Meyr. 
9.19mm, Head and thorax brewn mixed with dark fuscous, lower half 
of face whitish, thoracic crest mixed with whitish. Abdomen dark fuscous. 
Forewings brown sprinkled with dark fuscous; an undefined basal patch 
atrigulated with black ; a semieval reddish-brown blotch extending along 
costa from 2 almost to apex, on costal edge shortly strigulated with black, 
on lower edge margined anteriorly by a thick curved black streak from 
costa to beyond its middle, and posteriorly by an irregular black streak 
running from apex towards tornus ? across wing and dilated inte a_ blotch 
in its central portion, the opening between these two streaks somewhat 
whitish-mixed ; a short blackish streak along median portion ef termen: 
cilia brown mixed with dark fuscous. Hindwings dark grey, cilia grey, 
with dark grey subbasal line. 
Madulsima, Ceylon, in Mareh (Green). This sex, which differs consider- 
ably in colouring from the ¢, kas not been described before. 
Argyroplece lamyra, Meyr. Nos" Rae, 
Kegalle, Ceylon (Alston); one specimen. Described from Queensland, 
and not hitherto recorded elsewhere. 
Argyroploce compsitis, n. sp. 
@.13 mm. Head grey. Palpi grey, with a blackish band. Thorax 
grey, crest blackish. Forewings elungate, costa gently arched, apex 
obtuse, termen slightly rounded, somewhat oblique; leaden-grey with 
faint purplish reflections ; costa strigulated with black and whitish ; two 
black dets near base, and ene beneath costa at + ; a triangular blackish 
white-edged blotch on dorsum at 3, reaching more than half across wing ; 
central fascia blackish on upper half, blackish-sprinkled but little marked 
en lower, white-edged on posterior margin, broadest in middle, beneath 
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