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second bars, a narrower and blacker one between second bar and 

 dot, and another beyond dot, all narrowly separate from the 

 whitish markings ; dorsum from base to near apex marked with 

 about seven irregular oblique white blackisli-edged marks reaching 

 nearly half across wing ; a hne curved transverse silvery-metallic 

 line near apex, costal part of apex blackish : cilia grey, round 

 apex with a blackish median line. Hind wings and cilia grey. 



Kanaka, Karwar, bred in July from unusually large irregularly 

 elongate oval semitrausparent white cocoons, with three or lour 

 small attached bubbles, found on surface of leaf, each on a vein, 

 scattered about ou various sorts of bushes in neighbourhood of 

 Tcrjnuialia jjanicalata {^Co>nhretacete), which is probably the food- 

 plant ; at considerable distances apart, indicating a wandering 

 habit before pupating {Maxwell) ; one specimen. Allied to con- 

 voluta. 



Acrocercops hormista, n. sp. 



5 . 10 mm. Head and thorax whitish-grey. Palpi with 

 appressed scales, whitish, second joint irrorated with dark fuscous, 

 terminal joint with two bands of dark fuscous irroration. Abdomen 

 grey, beucath whitish, with lateral series of oblique dark fuscous 

 streaks. Forewings very narrowly elongate-laiiccolate ; pale 

 greyish, irregularly irrorated with dark fuscous, dorsum obscurely 

 marbled with grey- whitish suffusion ; a line indistinct grey-whitisli 

 dark-edged acutely angulated transverse line at |, followed by a 

 somewhat oblique obtusely angulated violet-silver} -metallic trans- 

 verse line, its costal extremity whitish ; a suffused black costal 

 spot near apex, including a white dot: cilia grey, round apex 

 whitish-tinged, with three blackish lines. Hiudwings and cilia 

 grey. 



CooEG, Pollibetta, in November {Fletcher) ; one specimen. 



Acrocercops prompta, n. sp. 



cJ. 11 mm. Head white. Palpi white, second joint dark 

 fuscous except towards apex, with moderate projecting apical tuft 

 beneath, terminal joint loosely I'ough-scaled anteriorly, with 

 blackish subbasal dot. Antennse dark grey, basal joint white with 

 dark fuscous apical spot with well-marked pecteu. Thorax white, 

 patagia rather dark fuscous. Abdomen light greyish, anal tuft 

 whitish. Forewings very narrowly elongate-lanceolate ; (neuration 

 apparently 3 absent, 7 absent, 8 and 9 out of 6); dark fuscous 

 mixed with lighter ; a pale ochreous dorsal streak suffuscdly mixed 

 with white from base to near apex, its upper edge forming three 

 or four irregular very oblique projections ; an oblique pale fuscous 

 strigula towards costa at -i ; a pale ochreous apical spot, edged 

 anteriorly by an oblique indistinct leaden-silvery strigula termi- 

 nating at each end in a white dot and including an irregular 

 whitish praeapical dot and a black apical dot : cilia pale grey, 

 round apex with two dark fuscous lines separated with whitish, 



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