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this narrowly reddish-brown ; a narrow grey and brown subtemiinal fascia 

 marked Avith black dashes on veins, constricted or almost interrupted in 

 middle ; a short brown or grey streak marked with black along median 

 iportion of termen : cilia brownish or fuscous irrorated with whitish, with 

 two dark fuscous lines becoming obsolete towards tornus. Hindwings in 

 (S with subdorsal fold ; fuscous, lighter anteriorly ; cilia whitish-fuscous, 

 with darker subbasal line. 



"Colombo, Ceylon (Mackwood); Pusa (Fletcher); in July, two specimens. 

 Statherotis decorata, Meyr. 



§ . 19 mm. Head and thorax brown mixed with dark fuscous, lower half 

 of face whitish, thoracic crest mixed with whitish. Abdomen dark fuscous. 

 Forewings brown sprinkled with dark fuscous ; an undefined basal patch 

 strigulated with black ; a semioval reddish-brown blotch extending along 

 costa from \ almost to apex, on costal edge shortly strigulated with black, 

 on lower edge margined anteriorly by a thick curved black streak from 

 costa to beyond its middle, and posteriorly by an irregular black streak 

 running from apex towards tornus | across wing and dilated into a blotch 

 in its central portion, the opening between these two streaks somewhat 

 whitish-mixed ; a short blackish streak along median portion of termen: 

 cilia brown mixed with dark fuscous. Hindwings dark grey, cilia grey, 

 with dark grey subbasal line. 



Madulsima, Ceylon, in March (Green). This sex, which differs consider- 

 ably in colouring from the S , has not been described before. 

 Argyroploce lamyra, Meyr. 



Kegalle, Ceylon (Alston); one specimen. Described from Queensland, 

 and not hitherto recorded elsewhere. 

 Argyroploce compsitis, n. sp. 



5 . 13 mm. Head grey. Palpi grey, with a blackish band. Thorax 

 grey, crest blackish. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen slightly rounded, somewhat oblique ; leaden-grey with 

 faint purplish reflections ; costa strigulated with black and whitish ; two 

 black dots near base, and one beneath costa at i ; a triangular blackish 

 white-edged blotch on dorsum at 5, reaching more than half across wing : 

 central fascia blackish on upper half, blackish-sprinkled but little marked 

 on lower, white-edged on posterior margin, broadest in middle, beneath 

 this suddenly narrowed and with a triangular slightly whitish-edged 

 prominence downwards from anterior margin ; an oblique transverse spot 

 from costa at §, upper half blackish, lower half ferrviginous-brown with 

 two black bars ; a blackish blotch before middle of termen, touching 

 central fascia and termen, suffused beneath, convex and white-edged 

 above ; two small dark fuscous spots on costa posteriorly, terminated 

 beneath with ferruginous-brown and a black dot ; a small dark fuscous 

 apical spot : cilia grey sprinkled with bluish-white, on upper half of 



