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Abdomen grey mixed with whitish. Forewings very narrowly 

 lanceolate, acute ; whitish ; four indistinct transverse fasciae of 

 fuscous irroration, at |, middle, |, and prteapical, their edges 

 marked with some scattered blackish scales : cilia ochreous-whitish, 

 round apex somewhat mixed with fuscous. Hindwings dark grey ; 

 cilia ochreous-grey- whitish. 



Cetlon, Peradeniya, in May, bred from larva mining leaves of 

 Schleichera trijuga (liutherford) ; one specimen. Type in British 

 Museum. 



Acrocercop:; brochogramma, n. sp. 



(^ . 6-7 mm. Head white. Palpi white, second joint greyish 

 towards apex, terminal joint with grey median ring. Thorax 

 white, shoulders sufl'used with brownish. Abdomen grey, sides 

 and ventral surface silvery-white. Legs white ringed with dark 

 fuscous. Porewings very narrowly elongate-lanceolate ; light 

 brownish ; extreme base white ; four straight narrow somewhat 

 oblique white faocia edged with some black scales, third somewhat 

 broadest, especially towards costa, fourth at f , narrowest ; an 

 irregular white line, furcate on upper half, crossing wing before 

 apex, with a few black specks on its margins : cilia grey- whitish, 

 base white, limited by a slightly curved transverse blackish line, 

 Hindwings grey ; cilia whitish-grey. 



Ceylon, Peradeniya, in June, bred from leaves of Hibiscus sjj. 

 containing galls of a Phytoptid (Eutherford); two specimens. 

 Allied to pentalocha and Jw.vacJiorda, Type in British Museum. 



Acrocercops ordinatella Meyr. 



Bred at Peradeniya in July, from larva raining leaves of Litsea 

 (Rutherford). 



Parectopa timaea, n. sp. 



$ . 11 mm. Head white. Palpi slender, smooth, ochreous- 

 whitish. Thorax white, patagia pale ochreous-yellow. Abdomen 

 ochreous-whitish. Forewings narrow-lanceolate; light ochreous- 

 yellow, partially suffused with deeper yellow-ochreous in disc ; costa 

 narrowly suffused witli white ; a fine very oblique whitish line from 

 5 of costa to I of disc, edged with fuscous on both sides except 

 towards costal extremity ; a rather broad snow-white dorsal streak 

 from base to beyond tornus, widest in middle of wing, where it 

 reaches half across wing, and cut here by an oblique bar of ground- 

 colour strongly edged on each side with dark fuscous ; a slender 

 dark fuscous median streak from base to middle, expanded poste- 

 riorly to coalesce with dark margin of dorsal streak, and also 

 connected with middle of line from costa ; an oblique mark of fuscous 

 irroration beneath costa beyond middle; a somewhat oblique very 

 fine lilac-silvery transverse line at 4, very finely edged with daik 

 fuscous irroration ; a black subterminal dot near apex ; cilia 



