Loiil WaUiiigliiiiiJ on Asiatic r<jrtriciJa;. 24,1 



9GG (1). Aiyj/ropluct mnjur^ sj). n. 



Antenme and juxlpi cijicreous. Head brownish ocliieom. 

 Thorax dark fuscous, tej^ulae brownisli oclireou3. Fore wini/a 

 brownish ochreous, tending to olive-brown across the middle, 

 much shaded with dark tuscuus to two-thirds the wing-len<;tli 

 and crossed by numerous irregular waved pale steel-blue 

 bands, or chains ot" connected spots, beyond the base; the 

 fuscous shading occurs for the most part along the dorsum, 

 obliquely across the middle of the wing to near the tornus, at 

 the base of the extreme costa and below it at a little distance 

 from it, the apical third of the wing showing scarcely any 

 fuscous scales ; the pale shining steel-blue bands are distri- 

 buted from the costa befoie the middle to the dorsum beyond 

 it, and profusely also on the pale apical third, where they 

 follow tiie outer margin of the oblique dark shade which 

 precedes it, and are carried round the costa and termen, but 

 a little within them ; cilia light brownish ochreous along their 

 basal halt', their outer half pale ochreous. Exp. al. 20 mm. 

 Hind icinijs dark brownish fuscous ; cilia whitish cinereous, 

 tinged with ochreous at the apex. Abdomen dark brownish 

 fuscous. Legs whitish cinereous. 



Type, ? (70232); S (TOoOo) Mus. Wlsm. 



Hah. Japan [l^rytr, 1886)— rE.s.90 {Pryer, lii&l). Four 

 specimens. 



in llie hind wing veins 3 and 4 are normally connate, but 

 sumctimes stalked. 



970. Aiifyiopluce titibiana, Un. 



Penthimi stibiana, StgT. & Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 249. No. 970 (18711 ' ; 

 Stgr. Hor. Sue. Ent. Rosa. XV. 250 (1879)='. 



Jll>. EunorE '. A.si.vnc Tukkey— iS'/rjs— Ak-Dagh, 

 13 Vli.'; JJALi-D — fiUiiv DiiVii^y, 13-18 VI. Ih90 (Aa^jye 

 Coll.). 



iJ84. Argyruploct lacunanaj Schitf. 



PetUhina lacvnana, Stgr. & \N'k. Cat. Lp. Eur. 260. No, 984 (1871) ' ; 

 Stgr. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ko.s>. XV. 251 (1879) ^ 



Hah. Europe'. Asiatic Turkey — Brussa, V.-Vl.* 

 China— Chang Yang, 4000-0000 feet (Pra«, 1886); Mupin, 

 21 V. 1890 [Leech). 



989 (2). Aryyroploce obuvata, sp. n. 



Antenna- brownish grey. Palpi whitish ochreous. Iltud 

 rust-brown. Thorax brow nish grey, mottled with rust-brovvu 

 Ann. d: May. S. Hist, Scr. 7. Vol. vi. 10 



