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brown, cut by a strong black bar in middle, and a narrow one beneath this, 

 posterior edge with abrupt projections above and below upper bar ; apical area 

 beyond upper half of central fascia and a line connecting it with tornus white, 

 except an irregular grey streak from costa beyond central fascia to tornus, more 

 or less broken, into three spots, a small brown costal spot beyond this, three 

 yellow-brown marks from costa before apex converging to termen beneath 

 apex and suffused togethoi- with grey, and an upwards-oblique mark from 

 middle of termen marked with three black spots : cilia grey sprinkled with 

 white, indistinctly barred with yellow brownish, towards tornus suffused with 

 whitish, Hindwings pale yellow-ochreuus, infuscated m ^ towards apex, in 

 9 generally ; cilia pale yellow-ochreous, with a more or less distinct fuscous 

 shade. 



Khasis, in June ; three specimens. 



Argyroploce charadrcea, n. sp. 



(^$. 18-21 mm. Head dark grey, mixed on crown with white and on 

 forehead with red- brownish. Palpi ascending, reddish-fuscous mixed with 

 dark fuscous. Thorax white mixed with dark fuscous, crest ferruginous- 

 brownish. Abdomen grey, anal tuft in ^ whitish-ochreous. Posterior tibias 

 rather densely scaled, in ^ with whitish-ochreous hair-peneil from base above. 

 Forewings elongate, rather narrow, posteriorly dilated, costa slightly arched, 

 apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, rather oblique ; bluish-leaden-grey 

 mixed and strigulated with black, anterior area from base to before middle 

 of costa and beyond middle of doisum much suffused with irregular 

 •whitish except along costa, so that the dark colour appears as a coarse 

 strigulation ; a white patch occupying apical fourth of wing, its edge 

 extending from f of costa to dorsum before tornus, upper half sending 

 an oblique triangular projection downwards to fold ; a small ochreous- 

 brownish mark on costa before apex, and another at apex sometimes containing 

 a black dot ; a cloudy grey striga before termen, terminating in a small 

 brownish spot on termen above tornus : cilia grey irrorated with white, with 

 indications of blackish lines, towards tornus wholly whitish. Hindwings grey 

 with a slight bronzy tinge ; cilia whitish-grey, with grey subbasal shade. 



Maskeliya and Patipola, Ceylon, in AprO and May (Alston, Pole) ; three 

 specimens. 



Argyroploce cifharisUs, n. sp. 



^ 9. 11-14 mm. Head brown, sometimes mixed with paler or darker. 

 Palpi porrected, brownish, mixed in middle with dark fuscous, towards base 

 whitish. Thorax brown mixed with dark fuscous, with a transverse median,, 

 band of whitish irroration or suffusion. Abdomen fuscous, in 9 darker. 

 Posterior tibias with appressed scales. Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, 

 costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen almost straight, rather oblique ; dark 

 bronzy-fuscous, strigulated with blackish ; anterior half crossed by four pairs 

 of irregular blue-leaden striae rising from short whitish costal strigulae, two 

 posterior pairs sometimes partially whitish-edged ; costa spotted with blackish- 



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