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ger Journ.^ Bom. Nat. Hist. Soc., Vo?.. XIX., No. 3. [November 15, 1909. 



brown, paler towards tornus. Hindwings fuscous, suffused with dark fuscous 

 posteriorly ; cilia grey, with dark grey basal shade, suffused with brownish 

 round apex and upper part of termen, more or less whitish towards dorsum. 



Maskeliya, Kandy, and Haldamulla, Ceylon (Green. Pole) ; Khasis ; in May, 

 and from August to December ; eight specimens, 

 Argyroploce dimorpha, n. sp, 



^$. 11-13 mm. Head and thorax whitish ochreous, sometimes suffused 

 with brown-reddish. Palpi ascending, ochreous-whitish, sometimes reddish- 

 tinged, with two small blackish spots on second joint above, and usually one 

 on base of terminal joint. Abdomen fuscous or dark fuscous, anal tuft of 

 X mixed with ochi-eouswhitish. Posterior tibiae with appressed scales. Fore- 

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

 termen slightly rounded, vertical ; whitish-ochreous or pale clay-colour, more 



or less strigulated or striated with fuscous or dark fuscous, sometimes sprinkled 



I / -»_ with black, sometimes largely or wholly suffused with brown-reddish ; costa 



black, obliquely strigulated with whitish ; a roundish spot in disc before 

 middle, and a suffusion along costa from near base to near apex grey or fus- 

 cous, sometimes much mixed with blackish and extending over whole basal 

 area ; sometimes two or three fine leaden strigge from costa, and a leaden streak 

 on posterior margin of ocellus ; sometimes a fine black terminal line : cilia 

 pale greyish-ochreous or whitish-ochreous, sometimes suffused with brown- 

 reddish. Hindwings fuscous, thinly scaled, posteriorly broadly suffused with 

 dark fuscous ; cilia grey- whitish, sometimes reddish-tinged round apex, with 

 blackish-grey subbasal line. 



Khasis, from October to March ; twenty specimens. 

 Eucosma, Hb. 



This name is now applied to the genus formerly called Fpiblema, Hb.^ 

 Eucosma ceriodes, n. sp. 



^ 9, Head, palpi, and thorax ochreous or ochreous-brownish, palpi ascend- 

 ing. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa slightly 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen sinuate, rather oblique ; yellow-ochreous, variably 

 suffused with brownish or dark fuscous on costal half or sometimes wholly 

 (especially in 9) ; sometimes irrorated with black except towards dorsum ; costa 

 marked with pairs of whitish strigulae, whence proceed irregular bluish-leaden 

 transverse striae, sometimes much marked with white on antemedian area, but 

 often more or less wholly obsolete : oscellus represented by a more or less defin- 

 ed irregular white streak from termen beneath apex to dorsum before tornus, 

 marked with four or five short black dashes, and followed by a thick leaden 

 metallic streak ; apex of wing ferruginous-oehreous : cilia ochreous, sometimes 

 with two or three grey lines, with a whitish tornal patch, and sometimes a whitish 

 subapical spot, Hindwings varying from greyish-ochreous to rather dark 

 fuscous ; cilia whitish-ochreous or pale greyish-ochreous, sometimes with an 



indistinct grey line, 



Khasis, from July to September ; ten specimens. Allied to ancyrota, Meyr.j. 

 but less narrow- winged, 



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