242 Lord Walsingham on Asiatic Torfricidse. 



and pale cinereous. Pore wings rather short and stumpy, 

 with rounded costa, obtuse apex, and rather obliquely convex 

 term en ; pale cinereous, mottled with grey, based and banded 

 with rust-brown, shaded with grey ; the basal patch ill- 

 defined, its outer edge dilated a little inward on the told ; 

 the median band wide, attenuated inward to the middle of 

 the costa, beyond which are five oblique pale ochreous 

 geminated coital streaklets, a sinuous steel-grey line from the 

 first pair meeting a line from the apex a little above the 

 middle of the termen ; cilia pale ochreous, a rust-brown line 

 along their base. Exp. al. 14 mm. Hmd wings brownish 

 grey ; cilia pale cinereous, a shade-line near their base. Ab- 

 domen brownish grey. Legs pale cinereous. 



Type, S (60386) Mus. Wlsm. 



Hub. Japan (Pryer, 1886)— Hondo— Foochau, IV. 1886 

 (Leech). Four specimens. 



998(2). Argyroploce humeralis, sp. n. 



Antennce fuscous. Palpi pale cinereous. Head and thorax 

 fuscous, tore icings with a basal patch extending to one- 

 fourth, bent outward about the middle, fuscous mottled with 

 leaden grey ; the space beyond it is pale ochreous, a slender 

 fuscous line running through it parallel to the outer edge of 

 the basal patch ; the outer portion of the pale space is diffused 

 and strongly tinged with ferruginous ; along the costa a series 

 'Ot tuscous spots alternate with oblique geminated pale ochreous 

 streaks ; from the third spot, about the middle, arises a 

 fuscous shade, dilated outward and downward to the dorsum 

 betore the toinus and much mottled with leaden grey, a larger 

 patch ot v\hich occurs at its outer edge above the tornus; the 

 outer portion of the wing is bright ferruginous, a slender 

 leaden grey line running from the fifth costal spot to the 

 termen below the apex ; cilia pale ochreous, based (and tipped 

 along the middle of the termen) with greyish fuscous. Exp. 

 al. 17 mm. hind wings dark greyish brown; cilia pale 

 cinueous, with a dark line running through them near their 

 base. Abdomen greyish brown. Legs pale cinereous, with 

 four blackish spots on the hind tarsi. 



Type, <$ (70532) Mus. Wlsm. 



Hub. Japan {Pryer, 1886). Unique. 



1003(1). Argyroploce (?) acharis, Btl. 



Penthina acharis, Btl. 111. Typ. Lp. Het. B. M. III. 80, PI. LX. 9 

 (187y) '. 



Hab. COREA — Gensan, VT. 1886 {Leech). Japan {Pryer, 



