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to February, twenty-two specimens. Also taken commonly by Mr T. B. Fletcher in the 

 Amirantes and Chagos Islands. Widely distributed in the Indo-Malayan region, S. 

 Pacific islands, and E. Australia; probably attached to some cultivated plant. 



11. Argyroploce nebulana Wals. 



$. 23 mm. Head fuscous-whitish suffused with grey on crown, face with two 

 black spots. Palpi porrected, fuscous-whitish with several blackish spots. Thorax grey, 

 spotted anteriorly with whitish-ochreous and behind this with fuscous-crimson, thoracic 

 crest mixed with whitish-ochreous and crimson. (Abdomen broken.) Posterior femora 

 beneath tufted with long whitish-ochreous hairs, with an erect apical light ochreous 

 scale-tooth, tibiae with light fuscous rough hairscales above, and whitish-ochreous ones 

 beneath. Fore wings elongate-triangular, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen bowed, 

 hardly oblique ; light brownish, extreme tips of scales ochreous- whitish, irregularly strigu- 

 lated with dark fuscous, and with some spots of ferruginous-reddish suffusion ; costal 

 edge black marked with pairs of whitish-ochreous strigulae ; a large black blotch extend- 

 ing along dorsum from ^ to f , sides vertical, upper margin with central third forming 

 a broad truncate projection reaching § across wing; a triangular brown-reddish spot on 

 costa beyond middle; some greyish clouding in disc posteriorly; an oblique brown- 

 reddish mark partially suffused with black below apex resting on middle of termen : cilia 

 grey mixed with brown-reddish, with a patch of whitish-ochreous suffusion on tornus. 

 Hindwings rather narrowed, dorsum formed into a strong thickened whitish-ochreous 

 projecting lobe, adjoining which is a groove on upper surface, containing some long grey 

 hairs, termen excavated between lobe and vein 1 b ; dark grey ; cilia grey with darker 

 subbasal shade, tips whitish. 



Mahe\ Cascade Estate, 800 feet, in February; one specimen. Also from W. Africa. 

 Described by Lord Walsingham from a single ? ; I therefore describe the $. 



12. Argyroploce hygrantis, n. sp. 



$. 17 mm. Head and palpi dark fuscous, palpi ascending. Thorax dark fuscous, 

 patagia and crest bright leaden-metallic. Posterior tibiae and basal joint of tarsi with 

 large expanded brush of white hairs above, suffused with grey beneath, tarsi short. Fore- 

 wings elongate-triangular, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, 

 rather oblique ; dark fuscous, thickly strewn with small irregular spots of raised 

 bright bluish-leaden-metallic scales except along costa, in middle of disc only thinly, 

 posteriorly tending to coalesce into thick striae: cilia rather dark leaden-fuscous. Hind- 

 wings reduced in size, beneath with subdorsal groove terminating in a tornal patch 

 of dense rough whitish-ochreous scales; grey, along dorsum suffused with whitish; cilia 

 whitish, round apex tinged with grey, round tornus with ochreous. 



Silhouette, south side of Mont Pot-a-eau, at 1500 feet, in August; one specimen. 



13. Argyroploce leucaspis Meyr. 



Silhouette, Mare aux Cochons plateau ; Felicite" ; in September and December, two 

 specimens. Common in India and Ceylon, and occurs also in the Maldive Islands ; 

 probably introduced. 



