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Acrocercops hyphantica, n. sp. 



5 . 7-8 mm. Head oclireous-whitish, sometimes slightly 

 sprinkled with fuscous. Palpi dark fuscous, second joint with 

 very long projecting tuft beneath, apex white, terminal joint white, 

 with black median ring. Anteimse ochreous-whitish spotted with 

 dark fuscous. Thorax ochreous-whitish mixed with brownish, 

 shoulders with a dark fuscous spot. Abdomen whitish. Fore- 

 wings narrowly elongate-lanceolate, apex round-pointed; brown; 

 basal area irregularly marked with white and blackish; a slender 

 irregular white streak running along dorsum from near base to 

 near tornus ; a pair of irregular curved white lines, each edged 

 anteriorly with black, crossing wing at i ; a straight white line 

 running from middle of costa to termen above tornus, edged 

 anteriorly on upper half by a thick black streak ; a tine white 

 oblique partially black-edged line from dorsum beyond middle 

 running into middle of this line, followed by a parallel whitish- 

 ochreous line ; a small blackish spot on tornus ; four very oblique 

 black strigSB from posterior half of costa, reaching half across 

 wing ; a somewhat curved white line crossing wing before apex ; a 

 whitish dot in apex edged beneath with black : cilia whitish-grey, 

 round apex white with two blackish hooks. Hindwings rather 

 dark grey ; cilia light grey. 



Bengal, Pusa, in August {Fletcher) ; two specimens. Larva 

 flattened, slightly tapering posteriorly, yellowish-green, head 

 whilish-yellow ; mining leaves of desalpinia honducella (Legumi- 

 nosce) ; pupa in a cocoon outside the mine {Fletcher). 



Parectopa bathracma, n. sp. 



(S 5 . 8-9 mm. Head white, centre of crown light brownish. 

 Palpi loosely scaled anteriorly, white, second joint grey except 

 apex. Thorax brownish-ochreous with two white stripes. 

 Abdomen grey. Porewings very narrowly elongate, moderately 

 pointed ; golden-bronzy-ochreous, sometimes irrorated with fuscous"; 

 markings shining white, edged with dark fuscous ; four wedge- 

 shaped streaks from costa reaching half across wing, first three 

 outwardly oblique, first at ^, produced along costa towards base, 

 fourth inwardly oblique; four wedgeshaped streaks from dorsum 

 reaching half across wing, first from base, extremely oblique, 

 second from middle of dorsum, second and third outwardly oblique, 

 fourth tornal, very small, inwardly oblique ; an elongate black 

 apical dot, sometimes edged with white beneath : cilia grey, at 

 apex with a white patch containing a blackish hook. Hindwinj^'s 

 and cilia grey. 



Trais^svaal, Pretoria, Barberton, in December and April {Jame); 

 six specimens. The white streaks may be straight or irregular, 

 and vary considerably ; in two specimens the basal streak is 

 extended to become confluent with apex of second dorsal. The 

 species is very like onychota, but may be immediately distinguished 

 by the first dorsal streak rising from base. 



