Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
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Argyroploce ptilonota n.sp. 
^ 20 mm. Head light brownish-ochreous slightly sprinkled with dark 
fuscous. Palpi pale ochreous, second joint with blackish median spot and 
subapical bar. Thorax light fuscous, pale-speckled, collar dark fuscous. 
Abdomen dark grey, anal tuft pale greyish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, 
posteriorly dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen hardly oblique; 
dark fuscous, irregularly spotted with dark leaden suffusion; eight pairs of 
ochreous-whitish costal strigulae only partially developed ; some slight brown- 
ish-ochreous marking towards costa at a rather broad irregular-edged 
ochreous-whitish band along dorsum throughout, irregularly mixed with pale 
ochreous: cilia whitish-ochreous barred with greyish, on costa with dark 
fuscous. Hind wings rather dark grey; a moderate dorsal lobe from base, not 
reaching tornus; cilia pale greyish, with darker subbasal shade. 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in December (Capt. Paget) ; one specimen. Type in 
Transvaal Museum. 
Argyroploce peltastica n.sp. 
^ $ 21-22 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax rather dark fuscous, in partly 
suffused with blackish. Abdomen grey. Posterior tibiae and basal joint of 
tarsi in ^ densely tufted above with long rough brownish-ochreous hairscales 
suffused with blackish above. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa slightly 
arched, apex obtuse, termen rounded, somewhat oblique; i c curved and 
nearly approximated to 2 near its origin; fuscous, somewhat mottled obscurely 
with brownish, towards dorsum posteriorly obscurely strigulated with whitish 
irroration ; costa somewhat marked with brownish and dark fuscous strigulae ; 
a triangular blackish-fuscous praetornal spot, cut by two brownish veins; a 
more or less developed blackish-brown fasciate streak from beneath costa near 
apex to middle of termen; a transverse series of about four small irregular 
black dots before lower half of termen: cilia dark grey speckled with whitish 
points. Hindwings rather dark grey; cilia pale fuscous with darker subbasal 
line, in ^ becoming longer and pale greyish-ochreous along dorsum. 
PoNDOLAND, in April, i (Swinny) ; Natal, i $ in my collection. Type in 
Transvaal Museum. Previously not possessing the I had mistakenly 
identified the $ with the Indian illepida But!., to which it is extremely similar; 
but the S now obtained is quite distinct from illepida, which has the special 
sexual characteristics of a dense subdorsal brush of hairs on surface of hind- 
wings, and also has termen of forewings more oblique, and other differences. 
Hence illepida must be removed from the African list, though ranging to 
Australia and the Hawaiian Islands. The example I recorded as illepida from 
the Seychelles was presumably also peltastica. 
Argyroploce niphadastra n.sp. 
^ 1 6 mm. Head whitish-ochreous suffusedly marked with ferruginous. 
Palpi ferruginous mixed with dark fuscous, towards base and at tip ochreous- 
whitish. Thorax whitish-ochreous mixed with ferruginous and transversely 
marked with blackish. Forewings elongate, moderate, rather dilated pos- 
teriorly, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, little 
oblique ; whitish, irregularly mixed with light brownish and violet-bluish, with 
scattered blackish strigulae; basal patch darker-mixed, edge angulated in 
middle; central fascia rather narrow, little oblique, irregular, narrowed near 
dorsum, rather dark fuscous, upper part preceded by leaden-blue, posteriorly 
with an irregular median projection marked with black and surmounted by 
a conspicuous white dot ; an excurved subcrescentic rather dark fuscous patch 
