CRAMBIDiE.—-XYL0R YCTID2E. 
571 
Argyria prototypa, n. sp. 
. 15 mm. Head whitish, crown tinged brownish. Palpi, 
thorax whity-brownish. Forewings elongate-triangular, termen 
rounded, somewhat oblique; whitish, mostly suffused irregularly 
brownish, costal edge white on posterior half with two or three 
small brown spots; a small white black-edged spot in disc before 
middle, preceded by a patch of dark grey suffusion and some 
irregular black irroration ; first line median, gently excurved, pale 
yellow-brownish edged darker brown on both sides, margined white 
anteriorly except near costa; discal spot forming an indistinct 
fuscous transverse annulhs, beyond this a rounded patch of fuscous 
suffusion and black irroration; second line slender, whitish, 
becoming ochreous-yellow near costa, edged on both sides through¬ 
out brown, rising from a fuscous spot on costa at 4, excurved in 
disc and running very near termen to tornus; one or two blackish 
dots on termen near tornus: cilia whitish mixed brownish, a dark 
brown subbasal line. Hindwings light greyish ; cilia pale grey, 
a darker subbasal shade. 
Morocco, Ksarel Souk, May {Rungs, Direction Generate de 
VAgriculture, Rabat ); 1 ex. Apparently nearest *■ duplicilinea 
Hamps. 
XYLORYCT] DiE. 
IDIOMICTIS, n. g. 
Head with appressed scales, sidetufts slightly raised; ocelli 
posterior; tongue developed. Antennae f, scape elongate, without 
pecten. Labial palpi long, recurved, second joint thickened with 
appressed scales, terminal joint as long as second, moderate, pointed. 
Maxillary palpi very short, filiform, appressed to tongue. Hind 
tibiae rough-scaled above. Forewings 2 and 3 stalked from angle, 
7 to costa, 8 absent, 11 from middle. Hindwings 1, trapezoidal, 
apex obtuse, termen hardly sinuate, cilia 5 , 2 from §, 3 and 4 
connate, 5 slightly approximated to 4, 6 and 7 rather approximated 
towards base. 
Type rhizonoma Meyr. 
Idiomictis rhizonoma, n. sp. 
2 . 15 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, a pale lleshcolour median 
line on crown. Palpi ochreous-whitish, second joint with dark 
fuscous subapical ring. Thorax whitish-ochreous, two indistinct 
fuscous lines on dorsum and one on each tegula. Forewings 
elongate, costa gently arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen rounded, 
rather oblique; ochreous-whitish, all veins marked irregular rather 
dark fuscous streaks; stigmata moderate, black, plical directly 
beneath first discal: cilia ochreous-whitish, slightly tinged brownish, 
a few dark fuscous specks. Hindwings wliitish-grey; cilia grey- 
whitish. 
Fiji, Yunidawa, January {H. Phillips ); 1 ex. (Erit. Mus.), 
