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and thinly strewn with fine scattered violet-silvery-white scales, its outer edge 

 irregular and prominent above middle ; small brownish-ochreous spots on 

 dorsum at f and tornus ; posterior area of wing strongly tinged with purple on 

 lower half, and with pale green between this and costal area ; at oblique irreg- 

 ular spot on costa at §, an elongate mark along apical fourth of costa, a large 

 spot on termen beneath apex, and a smaller one below it light fuscous : (cilia 

 defective.) Hindwings light prismatic-grey, posteriorly strongly purple tinged : 

 cilia whitish-grey (defective). 



Khasis, in October; one specimen, taken by a native collector. It is an 



insect of curious appearance, somewhat recalling small Arctiadce of the 

 Ntidaria or Chamaita type. 



Synonymic Correction. 



Argyroploce mosaica. Low. Trans. Roy. Soc, S, Austr,, XXV, 72. 



This supersedes cJydonias, Meyr., Journ. Bomb. N, H. Soc, XVII, 734 ; 

 Mr. Lower has recently sent me the type for inspection ; described from 

 Queensland as type of a supposed new genus Temnolopha. 



Argyroploce poetica, n. nom. 



I propose this name for the species described as mosaica, Meyr., Journ. Bomb. 

 N. H, Soc, XVIII, 139, which in consequence of the above change finds its 

 name preoccupied. 



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