373° Jour., Bom. Nat. Hist. Soc., Vol. X XT, No. 3. [ July 30, 1912. 
costa gently arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen rounded, little oblique ; 
orange red, irregularly reticulated with dark fuscous ; costa strigulated 
with black, interspaces posteriorly whitish ; a blackish streak along dorsum 
from base to 2 and a blackish spot on costa at j ; a larger irregular blackish 
spot on costa beyond middie, and the reticulation coalesces into irregular 
markings in dise posteriorly and before ternus. Hindwings dark grey, 
thinly scaled anteriorly ; cilia grey, with darker subbasal line. 
Hakgala, Ceylon (Green); in April, one specimen. 
Argyroploce iophaea, n. sp. 
36 @. 13-15 mm. Head white, crown tinged with grey. Palpi white, 
second joint with two faint grey or brownish spots. Thorax crimson- 
grey mixed with white, thoracic crest large, dark crimson-brown. Forewings, 
elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen sinuate, 
little oblique ; crimson-brown or deep crimson, often partially strewn with 
suffused whitish strigule, and marked with suffused iridescent-violet striz ; 
base narrowly whitish; a flattened-triangular patch of blackish suffusion 
extending along costa from near base to near apex, and reaching in middle 
half across wing, marked with oblique bluish-leaden-metallic strigee rising 
from pairs of whitish costal strigule ; some blackish and leaden-metallic 
suffusion towards dorsum, especially on anterior half and on tornus; a 
more or less marked whitish-ochreous streak along termen; a fine black 
terminal line: cilia whitish-ochreous, sometimes suffused with crimson on 
outer half, sometimes with a dark leaden-fuscous patch beneath tornus, 
Hindwings fuscous ; cilia pale fuscous, with darker subbasal line. 
Maskeliya, Ceylon (Pole, Alston); in May, June and November, four 
specimens. 
Argyroploce microplaca, n. sp. 
&@. 89mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark fuscous. Forewings elon- 
gate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex round-pointed, termen sinuate, 
hardly oblique ; blackish-fuscous, crossed by suffused blue-leaden-metallic 
strice rising from oblique white costal strigule; a pale yellow-ochreous 
transverse patch reaching from termen close before tornus 2 across wing, 
and touching an oblique apical wedge-shaped strigula of same colour: cilia 
pale yellow-ochreous. Hindwings grey ; cilia light grey. 
Khasis ; in October and November, three specimens. 
Argyroploce anemodes, ni. sp. 
@. 12-13 mm. Head fuscous. Palpi iridescent-white, second joint 
with two spots of dark grey suffusion. Thorax blackish. Forewings elon- 
gate, somewhat dilated posteriorly, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, ter- 
men almost straight, vertical ; dark purple-fuscous suffused with blackish, 
finely sprinkled with minute ochreous points, a basal patch of leaden- 
metallic striation mixed with whitish, outer edge oblique aud extended as 
a dorsal streak to ocellus; a blotch of leaden-grey markings mixed with 
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