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14. Argyroploce conchopleura, n. sp. 



$. 12 mm. Head ochreous-brownish. Palpi porrected, whitish, slightly marked with 

 fuscous, terminal joint rather long. Thorax light brownish, sides beneath wings suffused 

 with violet-white. Abdomen grey. Posterior tibiae without tuft. Forewings elongate, 

 rather dilated posteriorly, costa anteriorly gently, posteriorly hardly arched, apex obtuse, 

 termen slightly sinuate, vertical; brownish sprinkled with black, more ochreous-brown 

 towards apex, crossed throughout by oblique irregular blue-leaden-metallic stria? rising 

 from pairs of whitish costal strigulae, costal edge blackish between these; costal third 

 of central fascia moderate, obliquely blackish; a blackish longitudinal mark resting 

 on termen above middle, cut by a white mark; ocellus margined laterally with blue- 

 leaden-metallic, and containing a transverse series of four linear black marks : cilia fuscous 

 mixed with blackish. Hindwings with 3 and 4 connate; dark grey; cilia light grey with 

 darker subbasal shade, tips whitish. 



Silhouette, Mare aux Cochons plateau, 1000 feet, in September; one specimen. Allied 

 to the Indian dimorpha Meyr. 



Laspeyresia Hueb. 



15. Laspeyresia miranda, n. sp. 



£$. 13 mm. Head pale ochreous, crown suffused with rosy-grey. Palpi ochreous- 

 whitish. Thorax greyish-purple. Abdomen dark purplish-grey. Forewings elongate, 

 moderate, rather dilated posteriorly, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen somewhat 

 sinuate beneath apex, rounded, little oblique; red-brown, crossed by suffused purple 

 stria? rising from pairs of very short whitish costal strigulye; two larger wedge-shaped 

 white strigulse on costa before apex ; undefined patches of darker or greyish suffusion 

 on dorsum before middle and about f , indicating margins of a dorsal patch hardly lighter 

 than ground-colour; two small blackish dots towards termen in middle: cilia grey, 

 with blackish-grey basal line. Hindwings orange; a moderate blackish-grey terminal 

 fascia ; cilia whitish-grey, with blackish-grey basal line. 



Aldabra ; two specimens. 



Gelechiadae. 



Aristotelia Hueb. 



16. Aristotelia schematias, n. sp. 



?. 10 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-whitish, shoulders dark fuscous. Palpi rather 

 stout, whitish, second and terminal joints each with two blackish rings. Abdomen grey. 

 Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen extremely obliquely 

 rounded; 6 separate; brown suffused with dark fuscous irroration; an oblique ochreous- 

 white fascia towards base; an oblique whitish streak from costa at -|, running into a 

 rather narrow somewhat curved whitish postmedian fascia, both these somewhat mixed 

 with blue-grey; stigmata indistinct, formed by blackish irroration, discal approximated, 

 plical before first discal, a curved white line running from postmedian fascia round upper 

 edge of first discal and thence direct beyond plical to dorsum ; a white spot on costa 

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