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Novemher 15,1900.] Descriptions of Jndi an Mkro-LejMoptera. 6<W- 



on middle of teimen and longitudinal mark before it ; a white subtriangular 

 spot or linear mark at apex ; a black terminal line : cilia dark leaden grey 

 sometimes mixed with red-brown, with a clear whitish apical patcli. Hind- 

 wings with 3 and 4 stalked or connate ; dorsum clothed with long hairs ; dark 

 fuscous ; cilia whitish-grey, with fuscous basal shade. 



Khasis, in June ; two specimens. Allied to the group of oropMas. 



Argyroploce halantha, n. sp. 



$ 9- 16-18 mm. Head brown. Palpi ascending, white, with violet-blue 

 reflections, base dark fuscous. Thorax dark brown mixed with whitish, crest 

 pale ferruginous posteriorly. Abdomen dark fuscous. Anteiior tarsi thickened 

 with scales, white ringed with black ; posterior tibite with appressed scales. 

 Forewings elongate, posteriorly slightly dilated, costa gently arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen rather abruptly sinuate, little oblique ; 3 much curved, 3-5 

 approxiraateil postei'iorly ; brown, irregularly spotted and marked with black, 

 basal, dorsal, and terminal areas more or less mixed wiih white ; a more or less 

 well-marked round white spot on costa beyond |, containing a black costal 

 _dot ; Gost a posteriorly black strigulated with white, with a very oblique 

 leaden striga close beneath it from beyond middle ; sides of ocellus marked 

 by broad undefined bluish-leaden suffusion ; a white longitudinal strigula 

 beneath apex : cilia light red-brownish, with a blackish-grey subbasal line, at 

 apex more or less spotted with blackish-gi'ey. Hindwings dark fuscous, rather 

 thinly scaled, becoming blackish-fuscous posteriorly ; cilia grey, with dark 

 fuscous basal line, beneath apex tinged with red -brownish. 



Palnis, 6,0U0 feet (Campbell; ; Khasis ; from August to October, eight 

 specimens. 



Argyroploce tetanota, n. sp. 



$ 9- '^l--3 mm. Head and thorax brownish sprinkled with whitish- 

 ochreous, forehead darker reddish-brown. Palpi ascending, brownish or 

 reddish-brown, sometimes sprinkled with dark fuscous. Abdomen rather dark 

 fuscous, in ^ with large median lateral expansible tuft of hairs. (Posterior 

 tibia3 in ^ broken.) Forewings elongate, rather dilated, costa slightly arched, 

 apex obtuse, termen somewhat rounded, rather oblique ; dark fuscous more or 

 less sprinkled with ochreous-whitish, appearing irregularly strigulated ; two 

 pairs of whitish costal strigulas before middle, three beyond middle, and two 

 single ones towards apex ; basal half crossed by irregular suffused subconfluent 

 dark leaden striaa ; five oblique leaden lines from postmediam costal strigulte 

 uniting near costa to form two broad dark leaden streaks crossing wing to 

 before and beyond tornus ; some whitish marking on termen beneath apex 

 and below middle : cilia brownish sprinkled with ochreous-whitish, indistinctly 

 barred, with dark fuscous subbasal line. Hindwing fuscous, with broad 

 terminal band of dark fuscous suffusion ; dorsum in $ forming a pocket filkd 

 with long expansible hairs above ; cilia whitish fuscous, with fuscous subbasal 

 line, in $ beneath with bright violet reflections, 



Khasis, in July ; two specimens. Allied to aprobola, Meyr. 



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