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pointed, terraen faintly sinuate, rather oblique; whitish-ochreous 

 tinged with brownish, tending to be marked with fine fuscous lines 

 on veins, and fine broAvnish lines between veins; costa obliquely 

 strigulated with brownish and fuscous ; dorsal edge with a scries of 

 cloudy dark fuscous dots or marks; some dai'k fuscous irroration 

 towards lower margin of cell, tending to form dark fuscous lines on 

 veins, with a more or less developed irregular dark fuscous spot at 

 I, and one or two cloudy dark fuscous marks on end of cell; a 

 more or less developed triangular spot of fuscous suffusion on 

 termen beneath apex : cilia whitish-ochreous suffused with grey, 

 with obscure dark grey bars. Hindwings whitish-grey or light grey, 

 somewhat darker posteriox'ly ; cUia grey-whitish, with grey subbasal 

 Ime. 



Peru, Aqualani; three specimens. 



Argyroploce faceta, n. sp. 



(^ $. 13-14 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax fuscous-whitish suf- 

 fusedly spotted or marbled with red-brown. Abdomen dark grey, 

 anal tuft of (J grey-whitish. Forewmgs rather elongate-triangular, 

 costa moderately arched, somewhat bent beyond middle, apex 

 rounded, termen rounded, somewhat oblique; ochreous-whitish to 

 light ochreous-brownish, irregularly strigulated with brown-reddish 

 and leaden-grey ; basal patch and central fascia coarsely strigulated 

 with black but very indefinite, on costa suffused with dark red- 

 brown, edge of basal patch irregular, somewhat curved, central 

 fascia broadening downwards, rather oblique ; beyond central fascia 

 a very irregular blue-leaden stria; posterior half of costa black with 

 white strigulae, whence rise short blue-leaden marks, and a sinuate 

 blue-leaden striga from j^ of costa running to termen beneath apex, 

 subcostal area round these deep fulvous or ferrugmous; beneath 

 this a curved dark red- brown fasciate patch crossed by black lines 

 on veins extending to near termen below middle, its lower extremity 

 followed by a blue-leaden terminal mark ; a very fine black terminal 

 line : cilia pale red-brownish, deeper towards base, spotted with 

 leaden-grey. Hindwings with 3 and 4 connate; blackish-grey; 

 cilia grey, with dark grey subbasal shade. 



British Guiana, Bartica, from January to April 

 {Parish); five specimens. 



Argyroploce cataphracta, n. sp. 



(J$. 14-15 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark fuscous, head 

 tinged with crimson. Abdomen dark grey. Posterior tibiae in cJ 



