4G8 EXOTIC MICKOLEl'IDOrTKRA. 



very narrow, moderately pointed, acnto ; rather dark bronzy-fuscous ; 

 a narrow Avhite dorsal streak from base to tornus, occupying ^ of 

 winf^, npper edge straight, with a subtriangular prominence at |- 

 of its length and another at apex, dorsal edge suffused whilish- 

 ochreous from" i to | ; fine white black-edged oblique strigulse 

 from costa at | and |, reaching nearly across wing, first terminating 

 in apical prominence of dorsal streak and extended backwards on 

 costa as a fine white black-edged line to | ; a silvery dot at apex, 

 blackish-edgod anteriorly: cilia grey, on costa with whitish mark 

 on ])rteapical strigula and white blackish-edged wedge-shaped spot 

 on apical dot, round apex whitish with dark grey line. Hindwings 

 rather dark grey ; cilia grej'. 



South Australia, Adelaide, October ; 1 ex. (Coll. Lower). 

 Nearest parallela, which has dorsal streak broader with edge 

 sinuate posteriorly, and other differences. 



Acrocercops grammatacma, n. sp. 



(5 . 8 mm. Head white. Palpi slender, white, second joint 

 dark fuscous towards apex. Forewings very narrow, moderately 

 jiointed ; fuscous ; a narrow shining white straight-edged dorsal 

 streak from base to apex, on apical fourth black-edged ; a Avhite 

 black -edged subcostal line from | to apex : cilia white, beneath 

 tornus pale grej'ish, at apex with two fine projecting blackish 

 hooks. Eiiidwings light grey ; cilia pale greyish. 



Queensland, Cairns ; 1 ex. (Coll. Lower). 



Acrocercops rhothiastis, n. sp. 



c? . 9 mm. (Head missing). Thorax white, patagia grey. 

 Forewings very narrow, moderately pointed ; dark fuscous ; costal 

 tdge white except towards extremities; dorsal half from base to 

 l(.rnus mainly occupied by oblique subconfluent white strigulation ; 

 t^\o fine very oblique white strigulte from costa towards apex, 

 second continued transversely across wing before apical spot ; some 

 irregular longitudinal or very oblique white strigulation from tornus 

 along lower part of termen ; a subquadrate black apical spot finely 

 edged white above and beneath : cilia white, a black basal line and 

 two fuscous shades. Hindwings rather dark grej' ; cilia grey. 



S. JS'iGERiA, Ibadan, bred August from pupa on Brideliu macraniJia 

 (Erijiliorbiacece) {Poriiero>/) • 1 ex. (Brit. Mus.). 



^ Acrocercops desmochares, n. sp. 



2 . 6 mm. Head whitish. Palpi slender, whitish, second joint 

 w ith dark fuscous subapical baud, terminal joint with traces of dark 

 rings. Forewings very narrow, moderately pointed; dark grej-, 

 pale-speckled ; a slender oblique white streak from costa at i- 

 reaching half across wing ; from this a straight yellow-whitish 

 s^ubcostal line, blackish-edged beneath, runs to second and is 

 interrupted by first of three somewhat oblique curved transverse 

 violet-grey-whitish submetallic lines, first median, third towards 

 apex, between second and third a black subcostal mark ; fine pale 



