174 EXOTIC MICROr-EPIDOPTEUA. 



apex whitish with dark fuscous basal line, and dark fuscous median 

 shade above apex forming an apical hook. Hindwings grey; cilia 

 pale greyish. 



Assam, Khasis, A])ril, ISfay ; five specimens. 



Acrocercops loxias, n. sp. 



c? 5 . 7 mm. Head white, crown grey. Palpi wliito, apical 

 band of second joint and median band of terminal blackish. 

 Thoi'ax grey. Abdomen greyish, sides obliquely streaked white 

 and dark fuscous. Forewings very narroAvly elongate-lanceolate; 

 grey; markings white edged black, especially anteriorly; oblique 

 transverse lines about | and beyond middle ; a dot or short mark 

 on costa at |^; a rather oblicjue mark from costa at ^: cilia greyish, 

 an apical white patch edged at base by a black mark, and two 

 white basal dots on termen. Hindwings rather dark grey ; cilia 

 light grey. 



Uajputana, Jodhpur, bred in June from Eugenia jamholmia 

 (Myrtacece) {Beeson); five specimens. 



Acrocercops selmatica, n. sp. 



cJ. 9 mm. Head, palpi, thorax white. Forewings narrowly 

 elongate-lanceolate ; very pale yellow-ochreous ; four I'ather 

 oblique white fasciae with faint median striae of groundcolour, 

 first two suffusedly confluent and occupying basal third of wing, 

 third slightly before middle, fourth at | ; a slender rather oblique 

 transverse whitish streak at |-, lower | occupied by a group of 

 blackish specks ; a small indistinct white apical spot with some 

 blackish specks: cilia whitish, basal half very pale yellow-ochreous, 

 with two indistinct whitish bars on costa and two on termen. 

 Hindwings pale grey ; cilia whitish. 



Assam, Khasis, September ; two specimens. Allied to hapalarga. 



Acrocercops orthostacta, n. sp. 



(S ? . 4-5 mm. Head white. Palpi white, apex of second 

 joint and median ring of terminal fuscous. Thorax white speckled 

 black. Abdomen ochreous-whitish, Forewings lanceolate; brownish- 

 ochreous ; markings white, edged black irroration ; a narrow 

 irregular subbasal fascia; a moderate oblique fascia at ^ ; a narrower 

 less obliijue fascia beyond middle, slightly broader towards costa ; 

 a subtriangular spot on costa at |, black-margined beneath (as well 

 as laterally) but touching a white tornal dot; a wedgeshaped spot 

 from costa before apex touching termen : cilia whitish-grey, at 

 apex whitish, within a blackish median line brownish-oclireous. 

 Hindwings and cilia light grey. 



Bengal, Pusa, bred in August from larvae mining blotches in 

 leaves of 8vla conlifolia (Malvacece) (Fletcher); two specimens. 

 Nearest p^ aeospora. 



