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greyish brown ; cilia pale whitish cinereous, with a slender 

 greyish brown shade running through them near their base. 

 Abdomen greyish brown. Legs whitish, hind tarsal joints 

 faintly spotted. 



Type, $ (60059) Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. Japan [Fryer, 1886) — Hondo — Yokohama {Man- 

 ley, 1888). Four specimens. 



This species appears to be allied to corticana, Hb., but the 

 pale ground-colour of the wing almost obliterates the central 

 fascia below the middle ; the apical markings also are some- 

 what different and the palpi are white instead of dusky. 



933 (1). Argyroploce auricristana, sp. n. 



Antenna* subochreous, basal joint white. Palpi white. 

 Head hoary grey above, white in front. Thorax olive 

 ochreous mixed with white, with a conspicuous golden olive 

 crest posteriorly. Fore wings olive ochreous, shading to 

 olive-brown, especially along the costa ; apical third of the 

 wing snow-white, the apex slightly tinged with brownish 

 grey ; the olive ochreous colour is irrorated with lustrous 

 chalybajous scales which extend as shining silvery streaks 

 along the inner margin of the white space and around the 

 termen; cilia shining whitish, slightly clouded with grey. 

 Exp. al. 19-20 mm. Hind wings greyish brown; cilia 

 shining pale cinereous. Abdomen greyish brown. Legs 

 shining cinereous, hind tarsal joints spotted with brownish. 



Type, <? (70137) ; ? (70138) Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. JAPAN [Fryer, 1886)— Kiusiu [Leech, 1890). Ten 

 specimens. 



934 (1). Argyroploce geminata, sp. n. 



Antennai ($) simple; greyish. Palpi porrect, with the 

 tuft on the underside of the median joint considerably deve- 

 loped ; whitish, shaded with greyish fuscous externally. 

 Head whitish ochreous. Thorax with the tuft scarcely deve- 

 loped ; whitish, mixed with greyish fuscous and olivaceous. 

 Fore wings white, much mottled, streaked, and clouded with 

 greyish fuscous, grey, and olivaceous ; an irregular curved 

 band of mixed greyish fuscous and olivaceous within the 

 basal third, further from the base on the dorsum than on the 

 costa, encloses a speckled and striated basal patch, in which 

 is a tuft of olivaceous ochreous scales on the dorsum ; the 



