INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 873 



Argyroploce iophaea, n. sp. 



S 2 . 13-15 mm. Head white, crown tinged with grey. Palpi white, 

 second joint with two faint grey or brownish spots. Thorax crimson 

 (Trey mixed'with white, thoracic crest large, dark crimson-brown. Forewings 

 elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen sinuate, 

 little oblique ; crimson-brown or deep crimson, often partially strewn with 

 suffused whitish strigulse, and marked with suffused iridescent-violet strise ; 

 base narrowly whitish ; a flattened-triangular patch, of blackish suffusion 

 extending along costa from near base to near apex, and reaching in middle 

 half across wing, marked with oblique bluish-leaden-metallic strigse rising 

 from pairs of whitish costal strigulse ; some blackish and leaden-metallic 

 suffusion towards dorsum, especially on anterior half and on tornus ; a 

 more or less marked whitish-ochreous streak along termen ; a fine black 

 terminal line : cilia whitish-ochreous, sometimes suffused with crimson on 

 outer half, sometimes with a dark leaden-fuscous patch beneath tornus. 

 Hindwings fuscous ; cilia pale fuscous, with darker subbasal line. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon (Pole, Alston) ; in May, June and November, four 

 specimens. 



Argyroploce onicroplaca, n. sp. 



,J$. 8-9 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark fuscous. Forewings elon- 

 gate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex round-pointed, termen sinuate, 

 hardly oblique ; blackish-fuscous, crossed by suffused blue-leaden-\netallic 

 strise rising from oblique white costal strigulse ; a pale yellow-ochreous 

 transverse patch reaching from termen close before tornus | across wing, 

 and touching an oblique apical wedge-shaped strigula of same colour : cilia 

 pale yellow-ochreous. Hindwings grey ; cilia light grey. 



Khasis ; in October and November, three specimens. 



Arcjyroploce anemodes, n. sp. 



5 . 12-13 mm. Head fuscous. Palpi iridescent-white, second joint 

 with two spots of dark grey suffusion. Thorax blackish. Forewings elon- 

 gate, somewhat dilated posteriorly, costa gently arched, apex, obtuse, ter- 

 men almost straight, vertical ; dark purple-fuscous suffused with blackish, 

 finely sprinkled with minute ochreous points, a basal patch of leaden- 

 metallic striation mixed with whitish, outer edge oblique and extended as 

 a dorsal streak to ocellus ; a blotch of leaden-grey markings mixed with 

 white on costa before middle ; three white costal strigulse beyond this ; two 

 stronger white strigulse enclosing apex ; ocellus margined anteriorly by a 

 double blue-leaden-metallic streak, and posteriorly by a blue-leaden- 

 metallic whitish-edged spot cut by a blackish dash : cilia fuscous mixed with 

 leaden-grey and dark fuscous, sometimes suffused with whitish-ochreous 

 on tornus. Hindwings dark fuscous, more blackish posteriorly ; cilia grey- 

 whitish, with dark grey subbasal shade. 



Kandy, Ceylon (Green) ; in June and August, two specimens. 

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