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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTEEA. 
speckled whitish, narrow space between these mostly suffused 
brown, anterior edge of terminal streak with 3 or 4 small black 
dots, its costal end white : cilia grey mixed darker, a basal chestnut- 
brown line (imperfect). Hindwings dark fuscous, lighter ante¬ 
riorly ; cilia whitish-grey, a dark grey basal line. 
Andamans, 1200 feet, June ( Ferrar ) ; 1 ex. A quite peculiar 
species, with exceptional facies ; possibly the discovery of the <5 
might indicate a new genus. No thoracic crest is perceptible, 
but the thorax is injured. 
Argyroploce strepsibathra, n. sp. 
<5 . 20 mm. Head, palpi brownish, face rather dark fuscous. 
Antennae very minutely ciliated. Thorax brownish sprinkled 
blackish. Abdomen clothed dorsally with dense rough pale greyish- 
ochreous hairs, anal tuft pale greyish-ochreous. Porewings tri¬ 
angular, costa nearly straight, gently arched towards apex, termen 
slightly rounded, somewhat oblique ; pale ochreous mixed light 
brownish ; costa marked with blackish strigulae and small spots ; 
some oblique undefined brownish suffusion and blackish strigulae 
extending from middle of dorsum to middle of apical patch ; a tri¬ 
angular brownish spot irrorated black before torn us; a triangular 
dark grey apical patch with three sinuate blackish striae, reaching 
to below middle of termen : cilia dark grey with rows of whitish 
points. Hindwings grey, paler towards base; cilia pale grey ; cell 
contorted and apparently reduced, space between 2 and 3 forming 
a deep groove on lower surface covered especially towards extremity 
with dense rough scales from each side, curled up at extremity. 
New Britain, Talesea, January (Eichhorn); lex. Related to 
toxogramma and illejnda. 
Argyroploce tetraploca, n. sp. 
$ . 24 mm. Head, palpi, thorax fuscous mixed darker. Antennal 
ciliations minute. Abdomen grey, dorsally clothed with dense 
rough hairs, anal tuft brownish-grey. Posterior tibiae densely 
tufted with' pale greyish-ochreous hairs. Porewings elongate- 
triangular, costa anteriorly nearly straight, gently arched towards 
apex, termen nearly straight, little oblique ; light greyish irrorated 
blackish-grey ; costa marked with paired ochreous-whitish oblique 
strigulae, towards apex with three small dark spots ; basal third 
suffusedly mixed ochreous-whitish; a blotch of brownish suffusion 
in posterior part of cell, veins between this and posterior fascia 
ochreous-whitish, spaces between them brownish-tinged; an oblique 
fasciate blotch of four parallel ochreous-whitish striae from middle 
of dorsum to just beyond lower angle of cell; a fascia of four 
ochreous-whitish striae from costa beyond middle to termen above 
tornus, its median interspace tinged brownish, edged posteriorly 
by a dark fuscous stria, two others between this and apex; a short 
blackish subdorsal dash ending in tornus, edged brownish above 
and whitish beneath : cilia grey speckled whitish, a dark grey 
subbasal shade, tornal area obscurely barred whitish-ochreous 
