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cilia greyish, a darker subbasal line, round dorsum and tornus grey- 
whitish. Posterior tibise tufted with dense whitish hairs. 
Bismarck Is., New Britain, Talesea, February (A . F. Eivhhorn) ; 
1 ex. Allied to albitibiana, 
Argyroploce turmaria, n. sp. 
2 . 21 mm. Head greyish, face lighter with a dark central 
spot. Palpi whitish-grey, second joint with three small dark 
fuscous marks, terminal joint very short, dark fuscous except tip. 
Thorax light reddish-grey mixed ferruginous. Forewings moderate, 
posteriorly dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen straight, 
vertical ; light greyish-ochreous sprinkled grey ; basal J- suffusedly 
marbled bluish-leaden, basal patch formed by some ferruginous- 
brown basal marking, a blotch on costa at and an irregular spot 
slightly beyond it in disc ; an irregular elongate oblique ferruginous- 
brown blotch beneath middle of wing, space between this and 
dorsum suffused bluish-leaden ; an irregular-triangular light brown 
praetornal spot, beyond this a broad pale bluish-leaden inwards- 
oblique streak from tornus extending nearly to costa, followed by 
an irregular-edged whitish streak ; costal edge dark fuscous, with 
two pairs of short white strigulse before middle, and five posteriorly, 
from these latter very oblique blue-leaden strigse coalesce and run 
to termen above middle, apical area round these suffused dark grey: 
cilia leaden-grey, basal third dark brown, cilia on tornal area light 
yellowish. Hmdwings dark grey, somewhat lighter anteriorly; 
cilia light grey, a darker subbasal shade. 
Bismarck Is., New Hannover, March (A. S. Meek)\ 1 ex. 
Perhaps allied to placida. 
Argyroploce neolopha, n. sp. 
<j>. 21 mm. Head, palpi, thorax reddish-brown, base of palpi 
ochreous-whitish. Forewings rather elongate-triangular, costa 
anteriorly nearly straight, posteriorly moderately arched, apex 
obtuse, termen faintly sinuate, vertical; ferruginous, mostly suf¬ 
fusedly marbled light lilac-purplish ; along costa from near base to 
apex a series of eight narrow elongate small black-brown spots or 
marks ; an irregular dark brown spot towards costa before middle; 
an elongate whitish-ochreous tuft of rough scales in disc beyond 
cell, between this and dorsum a blotch of blackish-grey suffusion : 
cilia ochreous, two somewhat interrupted reddish-brown shades. 
Hindwings dark grey ; cilia grey, a dark grey subbasal shade. 
Bismarck Is., New Britain, Talesea, March (A. F. Eichhorn); 
1 ex. Somewhat related to joarasema. 
Argyroploce spelaeodes, n. sp. 
^ <j> # 14-15 mm. Head, thorax rather dark brown, face light 
ochreous, second joint with two black or dark indigo-blue spots. 
Forewings moderate, somewhat dilated, costa gently arched, apex 
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