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EXOTIC MLCEOLEPIDOPIEEA. 
ochreous irregularly strigulated brownish, and irregularly spotted 
especially posteriorly greyish-silvery iridescence; some dark fuscous 
strigulation on dorsal half of basal area; central fascia represented 
by brown suffusion towards costa with a blackish-grey spot on 
middle of costa and more widely scattered blackish-grey strigulee 
downwards becoming obsolete dorsally ; a curved transverse marking 
formed of three confluent round spots outlined blackish-grey towards 
termen on upper half of disc : cilia whitish-grey, a grey basal line. 
Hindwings grey or light grey; cilia whitish. 
Beemtjda, June to September ( Ogilvie ); 15 ex. (type Brit. Mus.). 
Argyroploce elaeanthes, n. sp. 
<5 . 18 mm. Head, thorax greyish-fuscous, lower part of face 
and palpi whitish-ochreous. Forewings slightly dilated, termen 
somewhat obliquely rounded ; dull olive-green ; costa with pairs of 
very short whitish strigulae on posterior | ; a greyish-fuscous basal 
patch extending on costa to about ^ and on dorsum to rather less, 
edge angulated in middle ; a light purplish-rosy patch mixed leaden- 
grey occupying more than terminal third of wing, anteriorly convex 
and margined with blue-leaden finely edged white in disc, and con¬ 
taining a dark brown hemispherical blotch convex upwards, beneath 
this 2 or 3 dark fuscous superposed dashes in ocellus, two short 
blackish consecutive dashes above it, and four small dark brown 
spots on costa, from third a stria running to middle of termen and 
along it : cilia grey. Hindwings dark grey; cilia grey, a darker 
basal shade. 
Bolivia, Andes, 10,000 feet; 1 ex. Near malachitana. 
Argyroploce isopercna, n. sp. 
c? . 21 mm. Head whitish mixed fuscous and ferruginous. Palpi 
dark fuscous. Thorax dark fuscous slightly sprinkled whitish. 
Forewings posteriorly dilated, costa evenly arched, termen vertical; 
rather dark fuscous suffusedly striated blue-leaden, striae rising 
from small paired white costal strigulae; central fascia darker, 
somewhat oblique, broad, gradually narrowed towards costa; beyond 
this some chestnut-brown suffusion extending beneath costal edge 
to apex, crossed by short blue-leaden strigse, one from extended 
to middle of termen, preceded by dark brown suffusion; ocellus 
wholly suffused blue-leaden : cilia pale leaden-grey, an interrupted 
dark fuscous subbasal line. Hindwings rather dark fuscous ; cilia 
pale greyish, a dark grey subbasal shade. 
Colombia, San Antonio, 6600 feet, February; -1 ex. 
Argyroploce hoplista, n. sp. 
J 5 • 13-14 mm. Head, palpi, thorax dark grey. Forewings 
termen little oblique; dark fuscous, almost covered by irregular 
leaden-grey marbling; some minute white costal strigulae; an 
obscurely indicated lighter quadrate spot on dorsum before middle 
slightly suffused whitish on sides ; central fascia indicated by an 
