EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 



GRACILAHIAD.E. 



Acrocercops triscalma, n. sp. 



c? . 6 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax grey. Abdomen dark grey, 

 beneath whitish. Forewings very narrowly elongate- lanceolate ; 

 dark greyish-purple; a cloudy white spot in disc at |, a dot at A, 

 and a minute dot at apex : cilia grey. Hind wings dark fuscous ; 

 cilia grey. 



Kanaka, Karwar, bred in August and September from larv^ 

 mining blotches on upperside of leaves of Wagatea spicata (Le(/u- 

 minosce), occupying whole leaf; cocoon external, white {Maxwell) ; 

 two specimens. 



Acrocercops hemigljrpta, n. sp. 

 S . 6 mm. Head white. Palpi white, second joint externally 

 suffused with dark fuscous. Thorax dark purplish-fuscous. Abdo- 

 men dark fuscous, beneath white ringed with dark grey, f orewinos 

 very narrowly elongate-lanceolate ; dark purplish-fuscous ; a rather 

 oblique white wedgeshaped mark from costa beyond middle, reach- 

 ing half across wing, and two shorter less oblique similar marks 

 from costa between this and apex, first two pointing to minute 

 indistinct white dots on termen : cilia grey, above apex white 

 divided by a dark fuscous strigula. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia 

 grey. 



Kanaka, Karwar, bred in August from larvte mining round 

 blotches in leaves of an unidentified plant ; cocoon external, white 

 {Maxwell). 



Acrocercops hapalarga, n. sp. 

 (S . 6 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen white, palpi 

 slender. Forewings narrow-lanceolate ; shining snow-white ; four 

 narrow somewhat oblique irregular-edged light ochreous-yellowish 

 transverse fasciae, sprinkled with a few minute dark fuscous specks, 

 first almost obsolete, second indistinct, third at f, fourth at i, 

 somewhat darker : cilia white, at apex with grey subbasal line. 

 Hindwings and cilia white. 



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

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