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terminal joint white with two dark fuscous bands. Antenna? dark fuscous, 

 slenderly ringed with whitish. Thorax bronzy-ochreous, sprinkled with dark 

 fuscous. (Abdomen broken.) Legs blackish, banded with white. Forewings 

 very narrowly elongate, moderately pointed, acute ; whitish-ochreous mostly 

 suffused with ochreous-brownish ; an undefined streak of black suffusion along 

 costa ; four narrow white transverse streaks edged with dark fuscous, first and 

 second at <t and %, slightly curved, direct, third median, obliquely curved, 

 fourth at |, similar ; beyond third is an outwardly oblique white dark-edged 

 strigula from costa, and an oblique white mark below middle ; on anterior half 

 of wing are two or three dark fuscous striae parallel with and intermediate 

 between the white streaks ; a curved transverse silvery metallic dark-edged 

 line before appex : cilia whitish, with blackish subbasal and median lines round 

 apex, beneath tornus greyish. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon, in April (Pole) ; one specimen. 



Acrocercops convoluta, n. sp. 



<£$. 9 — 10 mm. Head whitish-ochreous mixed with grey, face white. 

 Palpi ochreous-fuscous, second joint white at apex, with tuft of loose project- 

 ing scales beneath, terminal joint white with two dark fuscous rings. Antenna; 

 ochreous-whitish suffusedly ringed with dark fuscous. Thorax ochreous- 

 whitish irrorated with ochreous and dark fuscous. Abdomen grey, beneath 

 white, with lateral series of oblique dark fuscous streaks. Legs dark ochreous- 

 fuscous ringed with white, bristles of posterior tibia? very short. Forewings 

 very narrowly elongate, parallel-sided, short-pointed, apex obtuse ; whitish- 

 ochreous, with numerous strong dark fuscous transverse stria?, angulated above 

 middle, at first slightly, more acutely posteriorly ; the coalescence of these 

 tends to form a dark fuscous fascia before middle, and two pairs of oblique 

 dark fuscous costal and dorsal spots posteriorly ; alternating with these are 

 oblique white costal and dorsal strigula?, variable and irregular, sometimes meet- 

 ing, last dorsal long and curved ; a curved oblique silvery transverse stria 

 towards apex, beyond which is a white dot on costa : apex longitudinally 

 brownish-ochreous, suffused with dark fuscous anteriorly ; cilia grey, round 

 apex grey- whitish with a black subbasal line and dark grey median line, 

 Hindwings dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon, in Jauuary, February, May, September, and October 

 (Pole) ; eight specimens. 



Acrocercops xtrophala, n. sp. 



$. 10 — 11mm. Head whitish, crown mixed with light grey. Palpi fuscous 

 mixed with blackish, second joint with tuft of loose projecting scales beneath, 

 terminal joint Avhite, anterior edge black except towards base. Antenna? dark 

 grey. Thorax whitish mixed with dark fuscous. Abdomen grey-whitish, 

 beneath white with lateral series of oblique dark fuscous streaks. Legs dark grey 

 ringed with whitish. Forewings very narrowly elongate, parallel sided, short- 

 pointed, apex obtuse ; dark fuscous sprinkled with whitish, with four pairs or 

 triplets of white transverse lines separated by black lines, first to somewhat 



