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termen ; an erect irregular or rounded blackish-grey blotch from 
termen below middle nearly reaching preeapical spot: cilia grey, a 
dark grey subbasal line, a whitish tornal spot. Hindwings white, 
a suffused grey apical blotch occupying | of wing in <$, or nearly 
half in £ ; cilia white, two grey shades, in less developed. 
Kashmir, Gulmarg, 8800 feet, June ( V . B. Fletcher) ; 3 ex. 
Argyroploce mixanthes, n. sp. 
2 . 16 mm. Head pale pinkish slightly mixed grey. Palpi pale 
pinkish, terminal joint and base and apex of second grey. Thorax 
dark leaden-grey, apex of tegulae white. Forewings rather elongate- 
triangular, costa gently arched, termen slightly rounded, rather 
oblique; grey sprinkled blackish, costal edge blackish ; several 
white dots on fold near base ; a group of four white strigulae from 
costa about ^, and some white marking on fold beneath these ; 
a blackish-grey blotch from costa representing upper of central 
fascia, between this and apex five white costal dots, first four 
emitting short oblique violet-leaden strigae, fifth a stronger white 
oblique strigula crossing apex, subcostal fulvous marking between 
these and at apex; irregular grey striae from first two of these 
uniting to form anterior edge of ocellus and a leaden-metallic 
outwardly whitish-edged streak forming posterior edge, several 
irregular blackish dots within it: cilia grey, a darker subbasal 
line, three whitish bars on termen beyond this, and a wholly 
whitish tornal patch. Hindwings grey, posterior third suffused 
darker grey ; cilia whitish, a dark grey basal shade. 
Kashmir, Gulmarg, 8800 feet, July ( T . B. Fletcher ); 1 ex. 
Allied to halantha, but easily separated by the different apical 
markings. 
Argyroploce sideropetra, n. sp. 
5. 16-22 mm. Head, palpi, thorax dark iron-grey, sometimes 
slightly spotted red-brown, thoracio crest red-brown. Forewings 
rather elongate-triangular, costa gently arched, termen rounded, 
rather oblique; dark iron-grey, transversely strigulated dark 
fuscous, the strigulae tending to unite into irregular striae ; two 
pairs of very short whitish strigulae indicated on costa before 
middle, and four more or less developed pairs posteriorly, the first 
two pairs beyond middle more distinct and uniting beneath costa in 
a triangular blotch of whitish-ochreous suffusion ; a white discal 
dot on end of cell; an irregular subterminal dark grey fascia crossed 
by five or six black lines, terminating in ocellar region, preceded 
and followed by more or less obscure leaden-metallic striae ; cilia 
dark grey. Hindwings dark fuscous ; cilia grey, a darker subbasal 
line. 
Brazil, Jaragua, September, October ( Hoffmann ); 4 ex. (type 
Vienna Mus.). 
