870 Jour., Bom. Nat. Hist. Soc., Vol. XXI., No. 3. [July 80, 1912, 
this suddenly narrowed and with a triangular slightly whitish-edged 
prominence downwards from anterior margin ; an oblique transverse spot 
from costa at 2, upper half blackish, lower half ferrugmous-brown with 
two black bars; a blackish blotch before middle of termen, touching 
eentral fascia and termen, suffused beneath, convex and white-edged 
above ; two small dark fuscous spots on costa posteriorly, terminated 
beneath with ferruginous-brown and a black dot ;a smalt dark fuscous 
apical spot: cilia grey sprinkled with bluish-white, on upper half of 
fermen obscurely barred with dark fuscous, Hmdwings grey, thinly 
scaled anteriorly, broadly suffused with dark fuscous towards termen ; 
eilia whitish-grey, with dark grey subbasal line. 
Maskeliya, Ceylon (Alston) ; in November, one specimen. 
Argyroploce scolopendrias, 1. sp. 
g.19mm. Head, palpi, and throrax reddish-fuscous mixed with blackish. 
Posterior tibixe without tufts. Forewings elongate, somewhat dilated 
posteriorly, costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, termen somewhat 
sinuate, rather oblique ; crimson-fuscous, indistinctly striated longitudi- 
nally with blackish in disc, suffused with ochreous-whitish towards base in 
middle ; costa strigulated with blackish and whitish; a slender black 
submedian streak from base to beyond middle, edged beneath with 
ochreous-brown suffusion ; dorsal area beneath this forming a broad pale 
ochreous streak continued across tornus and as a broad terminal patch 
mdistinctly lined with brownish to apex, where it is terminated by an 
oblique white mark ; a white transverse linear mark on end of ceH,, anc 
a black median streak from this to termen: cilia ochreous-whitish, with a 
reddish-fuscous bar at apex, and two on middle of termen. Hindwings with 
8 and 4 stalked ; light greyish-ochreous: cilia ochreous-whitish, with grey 
subbasal line. 
Nilgiris, 6,000 feet (Andrewes); in May, one specimen. Very similar 
to scorpiastis, but forewings miore elongate, termen more oblique, dorsal 
pale area forming a uniform band with straight blaek npperedge, hindwmg 
paler. : 
Argyroploce scorpiastis, n. sp. 
$ 9. 16-18 mm. Head and thorax fuscous, often reddish-tinged, some- 
times mixed with dark fuscous. Palpi reddish-whitish barred with blackish 
guffusion. Posterior tibie without tufts. Forewings elongate, moderate, 
somewhat dilated posteriorly, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen 
slightly smuate, little oblique ; crimson-fuseous, lighter and more crimson- 
tinged towards costa; costa obliquely strigulated with dark reddish- 
fuscous and sometimes with whitish ; basal 2 longitudinally striated with 
ochreous-whitish in disc, mixed with black between stris ; a white trans- 
-ptse linear mark on end of cell, space between this and termen streaked 
lor gitn linally with ochreous whitish or brownish-ochreous, with a black 
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