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orange, strewn with about twenty irregular dark indigo-blue-grey spots 
and marks edged with some black scales, and some scattered mmute black 
strigulx between these: cilia fulvous-orange, with several partially in- 
dicated dark bars. Hindwings orange-yellow; dorsal and  subdorsal 
streaks of blackish suffusion, and costal whitish space edged beneath with 
blackish; an interrupted streak in dise sometimes more or less indicated ; a 
broad blackish terminal band ; cilia orange, base blackish. 
Khasis, in October ; Baco River, Mindoro, Philippines, in February; two 
specimens. Allied to solaris and eatmsana. 
Argyroploce liochlora, nu. 8p. 
$ 15mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dull green mixed with blaekish. 
___Antennee simple. Abdomen dark-fuscous, beneath yellowish. Forewing 
elongate, rather dilated posteriorly, costa gently arehed, apex obtuse, 
termen slightly rounded, little oblique; light bluish-green ; eosta shortly 
and indistinctly strigulated with blackish; basal pateh yellow-green, 
edge obtusely angulated im disc, its dorsal margin suffused with blackish ; 
central fascia moderate, oblique, yellow-green, narrowed at extremities, 
posterior edge somewhat irregular, slightly marked with blackish and 
towards middle edged with white; wing beyond this wholly light-dulh 
purple marbled with leaden-bluish, with some broken dark fuseous strigz 
partially edged with whitish, and an irregularly triangular blackish-fuscous 
partially whitish-edged blotch with one angle resting on middle of termen : 
cilia bluish-fuseous, base dark fuscous ; with subbasal and apical series of 
minute white specks. Hindwings dark-fuscous; cilia fuscous becoming 
light-bluish-grey towards apex, with darker basal line. 
Ganesh Gudi, Kanara, in May (Maxwell) , one specimen. 
Laspeyresia torodetta, n. sp. 
32. 9-10mm. Head light greyish-ochreous. Palpi very pale greyish- 
ochreous. ‘Thorax light bronzy greyish-ochreous. Abdomen dark-grey. 
Forewings elongate, rather dilated posteriorly, costa gently arched, apex 
obtuse, termen nearly straight, slightly oblique ; purplish-grey or purplish- 
fuscous, irregularly mixed or marked with dark-fusecous suffusion in dise 
and towards dorsum; costa marked with oblique whitish strigule, with 
several longer dark-fuseous strigwe between these, one from 3 of costa 
running to termen above middle; a triangular ochreous-white blotch on 
middle of dorsum, its apex somewhat produced a little obliquely posteriorly; 
ocellus margined laterally by obscure violet-leaden-grey streaks, and 
containing about four black dots or short linear marks: cilia fuscous 
sprinkled with whitish specks, with dark fuscous subbasal line. Hindwings 
dark-fuscous ; cilia whitish, with dark-fuscous basal shade. 
Coimbatore, and in Malabar, bred in December and January (Fletcher) ; 
eight specimens, larva pale-green, head reddish ; burrows into the growing 
tips of stem of Dolichos lablab (Leguminose), causing it to droop and die; 
pupation within the burrow (Fletcher). 
Laspeyresia pycnota, n. sp. ; 
2. 10mm. Head fuscous, face whitish. Palpi whitish, second joint 
loosely rough-sealed. Thorax and abdomen rather dark-fuscous. Fore- 
wings sub-oblong, costa gently arched, slightly bent in middle, apex obtuse, 
termen almost straight, rather oblique; dark-fuscous, crossed by thick 
dark-leaden lines angulated in disc, on posterior half of costa rising from 
four pairs of whitish strigul, first of these running to ocellus, others 
confusedly to termen ; ocellus indicated by leaden-metallic lateral approxi- 
mated streaks, without dots: cilia fuscous, with blackish subbasal line. 
Hindwings rather dark-fuscous; cilia light-fuscous, with dark-fuscous 
subbasal line. 
Yellapur, Kanara, in October (Maxwell), two specimens, 
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