﻿699 Journ., Bom. Nat. Ihst. Soc, Vol. XVIIL, No. 3. \_.hdy 15, 1908. 



Argyrotoxa cMonocenlra, n. sp. » 



^. 15 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax fuscous, lower part of face and palpi 

 internally whitish. Abdomen grey, apex whitish-ochreous. Forewings oblong, 

 costa much arched near base, thence almost straight, apex round-pointed, 

 termen sinuate, hardly oblique ; reddish-fuscous, with several irregular trans- 

 verse purplish-leaden glossy streaks, and between these several transverse 

 series of very small grey tufts tipped with black ; a small snow-white spot in 

 disc at f , nearly preceded by a larger tuft, and an elongate white dot obliquely 

 beneath and before this : cilia reddish-fuscous, apical half whitish-ochreous on 

 termen except towards tornus. Hindwings ochreous-whitish, dorsal half 



sufEused with light grey, apex and termen narrowly suffused with darker grey, 



f ' f cilia pale whitish-ochreous, with a grey shade. 



Khasis, in July ; one specimen. 



Ehoda ohstinata, n. sp. 



9. 13-14 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-fuscous sprinkled with blackish 

 Palpi brownish-ochreous sprinkled with dark fuscous. Abdomen grey. Fore- 

 wings elongate-cblong, costa abruptly arched near base, thence nearly straight, 

 apex rounded -obtuse, termen slightly rounded, somewhat oblique ; brownish- 

 ochreous ; markings deep ferruginous sufCusedly mixed with dark fuscous and 

 a few black scales ; basal patch with outer edge oblique, sometimes nearly 

 obsolete dorsally, sometimes extended as a broad dark fuscous dorsal suffusion 

 to coalesce with central fascia ; central fascia moderately broad, broadly con- 

 fluent in middle with large suffused costal patch ; a black and ferruginous 

 striga extends from costal patch to tornus, and another round apex and upper 

 part of termen : cilia whitish-ochreous. Hindwings fuscous ; cilia whitish- 

 ochreous with a fuscous shade, 



Puttalam, Ceylon, in November (Pole) ; two specimens. Vein 7 of forewings 

 terminates about the apex, but both in this species and smaragdinana the apex 

 is so obtusely rounded off as not to be exactly definable, therefore the termina- 

 tion of 7 should be treated as indefinite. 

 -J Oxygrapha ntpax, n. sp. 



M^-ifSAt* <J$. 17-19 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax fuscous. Abdomen grey. Fore- 



, *,i*-*' wings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen sinuate, 



oblique, fuscous mixed with whitish-fuscous, and transversely striated with 

 ferruginous mixed with dark fuscous and blackish ; a basal patch especially 

 mixed with blackish, extending to J of wing, marked with a pale yellowish dot 

 towards costa near base, and a large ridge of scales on its outer edge : cilia 

 fuscous. Hindwings very elongate-trapezoidal, fuscous ; cilia fuscous. 



Maskeliya and Maturatta, Ceylon, in June, September and October (Pole, 

 de Mowbray) ; three specimens. The narrowest-winged species of the genus 

 known to me. 



Oxygraplia halUlora, n. sp, 



^$, 12-15 mm. Head grey. Palpi dark grey irrorated with white. 

 Thorax whitish-greenish mixed with dark grey. Abdomen pale ochreous 

 irrorated with dark grey. Forewings elongate, narrower in ?, costa gently 

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