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with a bar of dark grey suffusion, above apex with three dark fuscous 

 strigulse, before first of these bronzy. Hindwings rather dark grey ; cilia 



gi'ey- 



Khasi Hills, in November : Pusa, Bengal, bred in April from larvae mining 

 leaves of Blumea lacera (Lefroy) ; four specimens. • 



Acrocercops isodelta, n. sp. 



$. 8 mm. Head white, face fuscous-tinged. Palpi white, second joint 

 with upper edge and an apical band blackish, terminal joint with blackish 

 submedian ring. Antennas grey, in front whitish, basal joint white, beneath 

 blackish. Thorax white, sides bronzy-fuscous. Abdomen grey, beneath white. 

 Legs white, banded with dark fuscous and blackish. Fore wings narrowly 

 elongate-lanceolate, bronzy-fuscous ; a moderately broad ochreous-white dorsal 

 streak from base, between \ and •§ forming three broad triangular black-edged 

 blotches whose tips almost or quite coalesce with white black-edged dots on 

 costa, the angular indentations between these almost reaching dorsum ; a fine 

 white black-edged oblique transverse streak before apex : cilia whitish, beneath 

 tornus greyish, beneath apex with a bronzy bar, above apex with three dark 

 fuscous strigalae, before first of these bronzy. Hindwings rather dark grey : 

 cilia grey. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon, in January (Pole) : one specimen. 

 Acrocercops lyrica n. sp. 



ft. 8 mm. Head shining white. Palpi white, second joint with two dark 

 grey bands, apex of terminal joint dark grey. Antennae grey. Thorax white, 

 sides bronzy-fuscous. Abdomen grey, anal tuft white, beneath white with 

 lateral series of oblique grey stripes. Legs white, banded with dark grey. Fore- 

 wings very narrowly lanceolate, gradually narrowed from near base ; bronzy 

 fuscous, becoming bronzy-ochreous on dorsal half : a silvery-white str' e along 

 dorsum from base to tornus, its apex rather dilated into an irrega 1 spot : a 

 silvery white elongate patch along termen from above tornus a 1 ost to apex, 

 its anterior extremity emitting a projection which extends f across wing ; above 

 this patch beneath costa is a sinuate black longitudinal line terminating in a 

 transverse black apical mark ". cilia white, towards tornus greyish, above apex 

 with a black median line, beneath apex with a blackish bar. Hindwings rather 

 dark grey ; cilia grey. 



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

 Acrocercops gemonitlla, Stt. 



(Gracilaria gemoniella, Stt., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. i (3rd sers.), 297, pi. x, 6.) 

 Maskeliya, Ceylon, in March and April (Pole); N. Coorg. 3,500 feet, in Octo- 

 ber (Newcome). None of my specimens show the anterior prominence of the 

 dorsal streak mentioned by Stainton, but otherwise they agree precisely, and I 

 am unable to regard them as distinct. 

 Acrocercops argyraspis, n. sp. 



$. 8 mm. Head white. Palpi white, lined with blackish. Antennae 

 whitish-grey. Thorax shining white, sides ochreous-bronzc. (Abdomen broken.) 



