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and clothed with dense long hairs, tornus distorted and tufted with long pro- 

 jecting scales ; fuscous, somewhat suffused with light brownish-ochreous in and 

 beneath disc ; cilia pale greyish-ochreous, with suffused fuscous subbasal shade. 



Trincoraali, Ceylon, in November (Green) ; one specimen. 



Argyroploce ionsoria, n. sp. 



^. 16 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax pale brownish-ochreous irregularly 

 sprinkled with dark fuscous, palpi subascending. Abdomen grey, apex rosy- 

 tinged. Posterior tibise and basal joint of tarsi densely tufted above with long^ 

 expansible whitish hairs. Forewings moderately elongate, rather dilated pos- 

 teriorly, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen rounded, little oblique ;. 

 brownish-ochreous suffused with ochreous-whitish ; basal third irregularly 

 mixed with yellow-brown and sprinkled with black ; a yellow-brown triangular 

 patch extending on costa from middle to near apex, its apex nearly reaching 

 dorsum beyond middle, much mixed with black posteriorly, costal edge marked 

 with five pairs of wtiite strigulae ; a yellow brown streak along upper part 

 of termen, confluent above with triangular patch, preceded above middle 



by a triangular spot of blackish suffusion : cilia yellow-brown sprinkled 

 with ochreous-whitish, on upper part of termen indistinctly barred with, 

 blackish. Hindwings rather dark fuscous ; dorsal area somewhat dilated and. 

 clothed with hairs ; cilia ochreous-whitish tinged with a brownish subbasal 

 line. 



Bentota, Ceylon ; one specimen, bred in January from larva feeding in fruit 

 of Barringtonia racemosa (Green j. 



Argyroploce oedalea, n. sp. 



^ $ . 19-20 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous more or less tinged or 

 mixed with red-brownish. Palpi ascending, white, more or less tinged or mixed 

 with red-brownish except towards base, in ^ very slightly. Abdomen in 

 ^ dark brown, in $ dark grey. Posterior femora and basal half of tibiae in 

 ^ with long fine expansible white hairs beneath, Forewings elongate, posteri- 

 orly, dilated, costa slightly sinuate in middle, rather abruptly arched posteriorly, 

 apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, hardly oblique, rounded beneath ; in $ 

 brownish-ochreous, in $ red-brownish, more or less strewn with scattered black 

 scales ; costa spotted and strigulaied with black ; several black strigulae towards 

 costa before middle ; a cloudy streak of whitish-ochreous suffusion running 

 beneath posterior part of costa and before upper portion of termen, margining 

 an undefined posterior discal patch sometimes irregularly mixed with black and 

 dark leaden, containing a tuft of long raised white and pale brown scales on 

 transverse vein, more elongated in ^ ; several minute black dashes in the 

 whitish-ochreous streak towards costa posteriorly ; sometimes some short dark 

 blue-leaden marks beneath costa posteriorly and a line almost on apical edge ; 

 series of more or less marked black strigulae on and before termen : cilia whitish- 

 ochreous, with two brownish shades and indications of darker bars. Hindwings 

 dark grey ; cilia grey- whitish, with dark grey subbasal and light fuscous 

 subapical shades. 

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