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Type. (1). Mixopuita RENATUSALIS, WIk., xvii., 484. E.Himalayas, 
TCrambus ermineus, Moore, Lep. Ceyl., Ceylon, Bur- 
ill., p. 580, pl. 184, fig. 7. ma, Borneo, 
Angonia crambidalis, Snell., Tijd. v. Ent., Java, Sam- 
XXEVI., D- OG, pl, option Le bawa. 
(2). MIXOPHILA TRILINEALIS, sp. n. 
¢. Head, thorax, and abdomen white suffused with fuscous. 
Forewing white, the inner half suffused with fuscous ; ante- and 
postmedial fuscous lines widening to costa, the former highly 
excurved at middle, the latter strongly angled at middle, and 
interrupted by yellow streaks on vein 6 and the median uervules, 
a fuscous line across apical area ; a fine black line on apical part of 
margin ; three submarginal black specks between the yellow streaks 
on median nervules with the cilia beyond them metallic silvery. 
Hindwing white tinged with ochreous and fuscous. 
Hab. Fergusson Island, N. Guinea (Meek). JHup., 
20mm. Type in Coll. Rothschild. 
B. Hindwing of f# with a tuft of red scales in cilia at 
anal angle, the inner area more or less clothed 
with ochreous scales below. 
(3). -MIXOPHILA XANTHOCASIS, Meyr., Trans. N.W. Hima- 
Ent. Soc. Lond., 1897, p. 81 . layas, Pulo Laut, Sangir, 
Fergusson I., New Guinea. 
Sect. IJ. Hind tibie of { dilated with groove and 
tuft of long yellow hair. 
(4). MrxopuILa cHrysias, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Amboina,Ban. 
Soc. Lond, 1897, p. 82 . : : . da, N.Guinea, 
Genus ARGYRACTIS, nov. 
Palpi upturned, the 3rd joint long and acuminate ; maxillary 
palpi long and dilated with scales at extremity ; frons rounded 
Argyractis argentilinealis, 3, 4. 
antennz of male ciliated. Forewing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle 
of cell ; 7 straight and well separated from 8 9,10. Hindwing 
