296 EXOTIC MICIIOLEPIDOPTERA. 



Acrocercops lithogramma, n. sp. 



cJ . 7 mra. Head silvery-whitish, crown light grey. Palpi 

 slender, white, apex of second joint dark grey. Thorax greyish. 

 Abdomen grey. Forewings very narrow, pointed ; grey, with 

 irregular whitish mottling and scattered darker grey intervening 

 scales, especially towards costa and dorsum; a fine longitudinal 

 silvery-bluish line in disc from about | to a bronzy apical spot : 

 cilia light grey, at apex base violet-whitish within a short fine 

 black line. Hindwings grey ; cilia light grey. 



Queensland, Brisbane, September (Z'ocW) ; one specimen. Type 

 in Wals. Coll. (18308). 



Parectopa tyriancha, n. sp, 



2 . 9 mm. Head whitish-yellow, a crimson line above eyes. 

 Palpi smooth, ochreous-whitish. Thorax pale ochreous tinged 

 crimson. Abdomen grey. Forewings narrow-elongate, parallel- 

 sided, apex short-pointed, obtuse ; light browuish-ochreous sprinkled 

 or tinged crimson, posterior half brown ; a light yellowish streak 

 along posterior half of costa, at origin reaching half across wing, 

 attenuated posteriorly and not reaching a[)ex, cut by three white 

 streaks edged dark fuscous, which become crimson on entering the 

 brown area, first verj^ oblique, its apex forming a crimson spot on 

 end of cell, second less oblique, reaching |^ across wing, third little 

 oblique, its apex hooked outwards and almost reaching tormeu ; 

 some irregular white markings on dorsum before middle, and an 

 oblique white striga from middle of dorsum nearly reaching first 

 costal streak ; a triangular blotch on dorsum before tornus reaching 

 half across wing, upper part white, lower part yellow, separated 

 from precediug striga by crimson, and edged posteriori}^ by a 

 crimson streak reaching tornus ; a transverse-oval apical black dot 

 edged anteriorly by a crimson line : cilia grey, on costa light 

 yellowish, round apex white, two crimson apical hooks, a crimson 

 basal line on termen beneath apex. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia 



grey- 



Queensland, Brisbane, October (Dodd) ; one specimen, with 

 body and basal area of wing in imperfect condition, but very 

 distinct. Type in Wals. Coll. (19199). 



Cyphosticha centrometra, n, sp. 



c? . 6 mm. Head, thorax whitish mixed leaden-grey. Palpi 

 Avhitish, tips of second and terniiual joints d;irk grey. Abdomen 

 grey, beneath Avliitish, sides oblicjuely marked dark fuscous. An- 

 terior anrl middle femora and tibia; dark fuscous, tarsi Avhite, middle 

 femora with apical tuft of scales beneath. Forewings narrowly 

 elongate-lanceolate ; dark ])urple-fuscous, whitish-s])ecklod ; round 

 Avhitish dots on costa at middle, |, and near apex : cilia light grey. 

 Hindwings and cilia light grey. 



Fiji, Lautoka, xYpril, one specimen bred from larva mining leaves 



