240 Lord Walsingham on Asiatic Tortricidae. 



underside dark fuscous, with a slight purplish reflection (on 

 botli wings), the tessellated white cilia showing very clearly. 

 Exp. al. 22 mm. Hind wings cupreous ; cilia brownish 

 grey. Abdomen cupreous. Legs', posterior pair coppery 

 brownish, the tarsi blackish, with three or four white annula- 

 tions. 



Type, ? (61150) Mus. Wlsm. 



Bob. China — Pan-tse-Fang, VI.-V1I. 1892 {Leech). 

 Unique. 



A very distinct species, not closely allied to any known 

 European form. The male is unknown, but it will probably 

 be found to belong to the genus Argyroploce. 



963. Argyroploce Branderiana, L. 

 Penthina Branderiana, Stgr. & Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 249. No. 963 (1871), 



Hab. Europe. Japan— Yesso (Pryer, 1882). 



963 (1). Argyroploce inornata, sp. n. 



Antenna?, dull cinereous. Palpi appressed to the face, 

 terminal joint short, concealed ; pale ochreous at the sides, 

 touched with fuscous above. Head fuscous. Thorax crested ; 

 greyish fuscous, slightly mottled with subochreous. Fore 

 wings greyish fuscous, indistinctly mottled with grey, sub- 

 ochreous and olive-brown to two-thirds the wing-length, the 

 apical third subochreous, shaded with olive-brown; on. the 

 costa are five or six pairs of pale ochreous geminated streaks, 

 separated and divided by greyish fuscous, a slender slaty grey 

 line running from the pair nearest the middle of the costa to 

 the termen ; below this line is a series of inconspicuous 

 narrow fuscous lines crossing the paler portion of the wing 

 towards the termen, but interrupted below the middle by an 

 elongate upright slaty grey patch, forming the outer edge of 

 the ocelloid spot; cilia pale ochreous, much mottled and 

 speckled with brownish fuscous, and with a brownish fuscous 

 line along their base. Exp. al. 24-25 mm. Hind wings 

 brownish fuscous ; cilia very pale ochreous, with a brownish 

 fuscous line running through them near their base. Abdo- 

 men brownish fuscous. Legs subochreous, hind tarsi barred 

 with dark fuscous. 



Type, ? (70161) ; <? (70162) Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. Japan (Pryer, 1886). Six specimens. 



