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sometimes preceded by two or three leaden strigulse ; dorsum sometimes 

 dotted with blackish or whitish ; usually a fine black terminal line : cilia light 

 brownish-oohreous, towards base usually markedly paler or grey-whitish. 

 Hindwings light fuscous-ochreous, rtowarda apex suffused with fuscous, in 

 the darkest specimen mostly suffused with rather dark fuscous ; cilia light 

 ochreous, with fuscous subbasal shade. 



Patipola and Hakgala, Ceylon, in April and May (Green, Alston, Pole) ; six 

 specimens. Nearly alUed to lichenoides, Wals., which is the type of the genus 

 Lipsotelus, Wals., but I do not regard the pecuUar form of forewings, which is 

 the main distinguishing character, as deserving generic separation. In liche- 

 noides, which I possess from the Khasi Hills, the costal prominence of fore- 

 wings does not extend so far towards apex, and the apex is less prominent. 



Argyroploce caryactis, n. sp. 



$ $. 14-15 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax ferruginous or ferruginous- 

 brown, palpi porrected. Abdomen dark fuscous, apex in $ grey-whitish, at 

 base in $ with an expansible lateral whitish hair-pencil. Posterior tibise with 

 oppressed scales. Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa gently arched, 

 C^-— apex obtuse, termen slightly sinuate, hardly oblique ; bright coppery-ferru- 



ginous, the ground colour mostly overlaid by suffused confluent light violet- 

 grey striae ; a broad undefined streak of dark ferruginous-brown suffusion 

 along dorsum, including in middle an undefined elongate-triangular patch of 

 pale grey strigulation, sometimes sprinkled with blackish : cilia ferruginous- 

 brown, mixed with whitish-ochreous and sometimes pale leaden-grey, towards 

 tips whitish on a subapical patch. Hindwings on basal half dark fuscous, 

 thinly scaled, outer half blackish-fuscous ; in $ with dorsal groove clothed 

 with long pale ochreous and whitish hairs ; cilia white, with dark fuscous 

 basal shade. 



Khasis, from December to March ; sixteen specimens. 



Argyroploce fibraf a, n. sp. 



^ 9' 1<>-18 mm. Head whitish-ochreous, forehead and sides of crown 

 suffused with red-brown. Palpi porrected, pale ochreous sprinkled centrally 

 with reddish -fuscous, beneath whitish. Thorax pale ochreous suffused with 

 red-brown and sprinkled with blackish, patagia suffused with ochreous-whitish 

 towards tips. Abdomen fuscous, anal tuft of $ mixed with ochreous-whitish. 

 Posterior tibiae and first joint of tarsi in $ clothed above with dense long 

 expansible whitish hairs. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa moderately 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, somewhat oblique ; red-brown, 

 sprinkled with blackish, tending to form longitudinal streaks on veins, dorsal 

 third especially strongly streaked with black suffusion and more or less mixed 

 with white between the streaks ; extreme costal edge white, with more or less 

 marked pairs of oblique whitish strigulee, interspaces more or less irrorated 

 with blackish ; oblique bluish leaden strigce rising from these, with indications 

 of transverse strias on posterior portion of wing, and transverse streaks mar- 

 gining ocellus, but all these sometimes almost wholly obsolete : cilia whitish- 



