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November 15, 1909.] Descriptions of Indian Micro- Lepidoptera. -©M< 



Katidy and Peradeniya, Ceylon, from July to September (Green) ; three 

 specimens. Specially characterised by the discal tuft of scales. 



Argyroploce diserta, n. sp. 



$ 9- 24-25 mm. Head red -brownish, mixed with dark fuscous and white, 

 lower half of face white. Palpi ascending, brownish mixed with dark fuscous^ 

 banded with white. Thorax dark fuscous mixed with white. Abdomen fus- 

 cous, and tuft of ^ whitish-ochreous. Posterior tibiae clothed with long rough 

 white hairs above and beneath, longer in ^. Forewings elongate-triangular, 

 costa rather abruptly bent at f, apex obtuse, termen almost straight, nearly 

 vertical, rounded beneath ; light reddish-brown, densely mixed and strigulated 

 throughout with blackish ; disc irregularly mixed with white on basal half ; a 

 transverse series of three roundish leaden-grey spots irregularly edged and con- 

 nected with white, extending from near costa at | to near tornus ; a blue-leaden 

 almost marginal interrupted line round apex and termen : cilia leaden-grey, 

 basal half light brown-reddish, suffusedly barred with blackish. Hindwing 

 dark fuscous ; cilia whitish-fuscous, with two dark fuscous shades. 



Khasis, in September ; two specimens. ■ — : ■ ~' 



Argyroploce astrosema, n. sp. 



^ 9 • 20-21 mm. Head and thorax ochreous, upper half of face deep 

 ferruginous, sides of thoracic crest ferruginous. Palpi ascending, ochreous, 

 suffused above with deep ferruginous. Abdomen fuscous, apex in ^ whitish- 

 ochreous, in 9 ferruginous-ochreous, Posterior tibiae clothed with rough 

 scales, in ^ with expansible ochreous- whitish hair-pencil from base above. 

 Forewings elongate- triangular, costa strongly and evenly arched, apex obtuse, 

 termen in ^ almost straight, in 9 somewhat sinuate, vertical, rounded beneath ; 

 ochreous, irregularly suffused with ferruginous, with an undefined pale fascia 

 from 4 of costa to termen above tornus ; basal half, posterior fascia, and centre 

 of disc between these strewn irregularly with small bright silvery-leaden- 

 metallic spots or strigulae ; a blackish discal dot beyond middle ; an apica) patch 

 of blackish suffusion, cut by a silvery-blue-metallic streak crossing apex and 

 continued along upper part of termen ; white marginal dots above and below 

 apex : cilia light ochreous, on upper half of termen and round apex dark 

 leaden-grey with blackish subbasal line. Hindwings dark fuscous ; cilia pale 

 ochreous tinged with reddish, with fuscous subbasal line. 



Khasis, in June ; two specimens. 



Argyroploce generosa, n. sp, 



^9- 15-16 mm. Head fuscous, face whitish. Palpi ascending, whitish. 

 Thorax fuscous miied with white, crest dark brown. Abdomen pale ochreous, 

 in 9 somewhat infiiscated. Posterior tibiiE smooth-scaled, Forewings 

 elongate-triangular, costa moderately and evenly arched, apex obtuse, termen 

 almost straight, hardly oblique, rounded beneath ; grey ; basal patch suffused 

 with yellow-brown on upper half, marked with a suffused white streak along 

 fold, beneath this somewhat mixed with black and suffused with darker grey, 

 outer edge rather irregular ; central fascia rather narrow irregular, yellow- 



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