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times partly marked with black, the most conspicuous being two irregular 

 oblique spots from costa at i and ^, and a smaller spot at f ; costal edge yellow- 

 ish ; a fine black terminal line : cilia reddish-fuscous, mixed with ochreous- 

 Whitish, and somewhat barred irregularly with blackish. Hindwings bright 

 orange ; irregular black costal, submedian, and dorsal streaks, connected with a 

 broad black terminal fascia ; cilia orange, base blackish round apex and upper 

 part of termeti. 



Khasis, in October and November ; three specimens. A specimen from 

 same locality, with similar hindwings, but forewings deep coppery-orange with 

 numerous irregular dark leaden-grey spots is probably a variety only, though 

 at first sight vei-y different. 



Argyroploce calUcratis, n. sp. 



$. 15 mm* Head dark fuscous mixed with white. Palpi ascending, white. 

 Thorax greyish-white, with a small spot on each shoulder, a cruciform mark on 

 _back, and two posterior spots black. Abdomen blackish, segmental margins 

 yellow. Posterior .tibiae rough-scaled above on anterior half. Forewings i / 



elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa almost straight, apex rounded-obtuse, ter- (J 



men slightly rounded, somewhat oblique ; grey, strewn with moderate dark 

 bluish-leaden rounded spots, interspersed with irregular black marks ; a white 

 basal patch, extended as a moderate streak along costa to f , enclosing a black- 

 ish spot on base of dorsum, costal edge with minute dark grey strigulas ; a very 

 pale pinkish spot beneath costal streak beyond middle, and a pale pinkish-grey 

 streak from beyond this to termen above torn us, beyond which the apical area 

 is black, enclosing several round dark blue-leaden spots and two or three white 

 marks : cilia dark grey, base brownish, on upper half of termen sprinkled and 

 indistinctly barred with whitish. Hindwings blackish ; an elongate orange 

 discal patch extended as a narrow streak to base, partially interrupted by a 

 blackish vein, and an ill-defined orange-yellow subdorsal streak beneath this ; 

 cilia white, with dark grey basal shade. 



Khasis, in October ; one specimen. 



Argyroploce tonica,n. sp, 



^9. 12-14 mm. Head and thorax dark fuscous irrorated with whitish. 

 Palpi ascending, whitish, second joint mixed with dark fuscous except towards 

 apex and beneath. Abdomen rather dark fuscous, anal tuft in $ ochreous- 

 • whitish. Posterior femora in $ with long projectmg white hairs beneath, 

 posterior tibiae in $ with rough white scales above and beneath. Forewings 

 elongate, narrow towards base, dilated posteriorly, costa almost straight, rather 

 bent near apex, apex obtuse, termen slightly sinuate, hardly oblique ; 3 strongly 

 curved, 3-5 rather approximated posteriorly ; dark brown, finely irrorated with 

 Whitish ; costa marked with oblique whitish strigulse ; from dorsum between 

 I and tornus several cloudy lines of whitish irroration converge to I of costa, 

 the interspaces partially streaked indistinctly with leaden-grey, and a similar 

 Whitish line from middle of termen tends to unite with last of these beneath 

 costa, enclosing a triangular patch more or less tinged with leaden-grey ; a 

 more or less defined small apical spot of blackish suffusion : cilia ferruginous- 



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