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costa with short dense rough scales, longest towards base ; dark fuscous, more 

 blackish posteriorly ; cilia grey, towards tips whitish, with dark fuscous 

 subbasal line. 



Khasis, in June, October, and November ; four specimens. 

 Argyroploce claviculata. n. sp. 



$^. 12-14 mm. Head and thorax varying from greyish -ochreous to 

 ferruginous-brown, sometimes mixed with dark fuscous. Palpi porrected 

 whitish, sometimes tinged with ferruginous, variably spotted with dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen dark fuscous. Posterior tibiae with tolerably appressed scales. Fore- 

 wings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen 

 slightly rounded, vertical ; varying from ferruginous- brownish to rather dark 

 fuscous ; costa black obliquely strigulated with white ; costal half of wing 

 from base to central fascia often suffused with blackish, especially in $ , more 

 or less indistinctly striated transversely with leaden metallic ; doisal area 

 beneath this sometimes striated with whitish ; upper portion of central fascia 

 usually forming a large trapezoidal blackish blotch, narrow on costa, issuing a 

 Jong irregular projection posteriorly above ocellus, in $ often little defined ; 

 ocellus narrow, margined anteriorly by two oblique subconfluent thick leaden- 

 metallic streaks, and posteriorly by a broad irregular leaden-metallic streak, and 

 crossed by several longitudinal black dashes, but all these are sortietimes very 

 indistinct ; an oblique leaden-metallic striga beneath posterior half of costa, 

 in $ sometimes obscured with blackish suffusion ; a white longitudinal strigula 

 touching termen beneath apex : cilia varying from whitish-ochreous to ferrugi- 

 nous-brownish, with a more or less marked blackish subbasal line, of ten with 

 two or three patches of blackish suffusion. Hindwings rather dark fuscous, 

 thmly scaled anteriorly, suffused with blackish-fuscous posteriorly ; cilia grey, 

 more whitish towaids tips, sometimes reddish-tinged round apex, with dark, 

 fuscous subbasal line, 



Kliasis, from December to March ; ten specimens. 

 Argyrouloce acrosema. n. sp, 



It. 23-24 mm. Head brownish-ochreous, crown suffused with brown oi 

 crimson fuscous. Palpi porrected, whitish-ochreous sufaised with grey or 

 brownish except towards base. Thorax brown mixed with dark fuscous and 

 ferruo-inous. Abdomen rather dark fuscous. Posterior tibia) clothed with 

 dense tolerably appressed scales. Forewings elongate, rather dilated posterior- 

 ly costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen almost straight, somewhat oblique, 

 rounded beneath ; light brownish or ochreous-grey strigulated with darker ; a 

 blackish blotch extending along costa from base to apex, its lower edge running 

 along fold from base to beyond middle, thence in a straight line to apex, costa 

 marked with pairs of whitish strigulte, in one specimen giving rise to oblique 

 leaden-metallic streaks whose interspaces are red-brown towards costa between 

 i and 3 • maro-ins of ocellus indicated by thick leaden-metallic streaks, between 

 which is a quadrate dark fuscous tornal spot ; space above ocellus more or less 

 iuffused with brownish ochreous or dark red-brown, with a dark fuscous spot 

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