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jecting dorsal lobe folded over beneath and concealing an area clothed with 
dark fuscous scales; cilia grey-whitish. 
British S. E. Africa, Bela Vista, in November (Swierstra) ; two specimens. 
Argyroploce exhilarata n.sp. 
$ 17 mm. Head and palpi ferruginous. Thorax whitish-ochreous tinged 
with reddish, crest ferruginous. Abdomen pale grey. Forewings elongate, 
posteriorly rather dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen straight, 
rather oblique; brown-reddish obscurely overlaid with glistening violet iri- 
descence, indistinctly darker-strigulated ; markings dark red-brown, mixed 
with black; an interrupted striga indicating edge of basal patch, obtusely 
angulated in middle; some dots or strigulae on dorsum; upper half of central 
fascia well-marked, narrow, irregular, oblique, pale-edged anteriorly, with a 
pale dot in an excavation of its extremity posteriorly; ill-marked spots out- 
lined rising from dorsum in middle and before tornus; a short oblique streak 
from apex: cilia light brown-reddish. Hindwings grey; cilia grey -whitish, 
towards base tinged with pale grey-reddish, towards tornus with grey subbasal 
shade. 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in March (Swierstra) ; one specimen. 
Argyroploce sponditis n.sp. 
cJ 19mm. Head and thorax dark brown. Palpi brownish, towards base 
whitish-ochreous, second joint with two suffused dark grey spots towards 
apex. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa gently 
arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, little oblique; reddish-brown 
mixed with fuscous and dark fuscous; basal patch darker on upper half, edged 
by a sinuate rather oblique strigula; central fascia on upper half darker, 
moderate, oblique, obsolete beneath; an elongate patch of whitish-ochreous 
suffusion running from posterior edge of this in disc to two pairs of suffused 
whitish-ochreous strigulae on costa about f , followed on lower portion by a 
broad dark streak forming a rounded-acute angle upwards, its anterior arm 
short, posterior arm running to middle of termen ; several small dark marks 
on posterior half of costa; ocellus laterally margined by very obscure dark 
leaden-grey streaks: cilia reddish-fuscous obscurely barred with dark fuscous. 
Hindwings rather dark grey; cilia grey, with darker subbasal shade. 
Cape Colony, Port St John, in January (Swinney), one specimen; also 
one in my collection from Natal, Pinetown, in January (Leigh). 
Argyroploce encharacta n.sp. 
$ 16 mm. Head brownish-ochreous, face and sides of crown mixed with 
reddish-fuscous. Palpi reddish-fuscous, basal area and a spot on second joint 
ochreous-whitish, tip whitish. Thorax pale ochreous. Abdomen pale greyish, 
anal tuft whitish-ochreous. Forewings moderately broad, dilated posteriorly, 
costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen almost straight, vertical; pale 
ochreous; costa strigulated with dark fuscous; some irregularly scattered 
fine short reddish-fuscous longitudinal lines, a group of several stronger lines 
partially suffused together indicating lower § of central fascia; an oblique 
triangular patch of similar marking from costa towards apex finely attenuated 
to termen above tornus, followed by a dark stria and some pale violet 
iridescence; a fine dark fuscous terminal stria: cilia whitish-ochreous, on upper 
part of termen with basal half brown-reddish. Hindwings light grey, veins 
darker; cilia grey -whitish, with grey subbasal shade. 
Cape Colony, Port St John, in December (Swinney); one specimen. 
