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blotches ill underside of leaves of Urena lohata (Malvacece) ; Stain- 

 ton erroneously included with them another set of specimens bred 

 from " brilliant amber-yellow " larvae mining blotches in upperside 

 of leaves of an unidentified plant, which are presumably ordinatella. 



Acrocercops viatica, n. sp. 



d . 7-8 mm. Head fuscous-whitish. Palpi white, with sub- 

 apical ring of second joint, and basal and median rings of terminal 

 joint dark fuscous. Thorax whitish, with dark brownish spot on 

 patagia. Abdomen grey, beneath white, sides barred with dark 

 fuscous. Forewings very narrowly elongate-lanceolate ; brownish, 

 costal edge dark fuscous ; a white strigula from costa near base, 

 and some irregular white marking mixed with dark fuscous irro- 

 ration towards base of dorsum ; five somewhat oblique narrow 

 white fasciae between this and apex, edged with a few dark 

 fuscous scales, and each marked with three (except fifth with two 

 only) irregular sometimes connected dots of dark fuscous irroration; 

 a minute white crescentic dot at apex : cilia greyish, round apex 

 with two darker shades. Hindwings grey ; cilia pale greyish. 

 CooRG, Dibidi, 3500 feet, in January {Newcome); three specimens. 



Acrocercops isonoma, n. sp. 



S . 7 mm. Head whitish, back of crown infuscated. Palpi 

 dark fuscous, terminal joint whitish with dark fuscous supra- 

 median ring. Thorax rather dark fuscous, posteriorly ochreous- 

 whitish. Abdomen dark fuscous, beneath banded with white. 

 Forewings narrowly elongate-lanceolate ; brownish irrorated with 

 blackish, towards costa suffused with blackish ; markings white 

 edged with blackish ; narrow transverse fasciae near base, at 5, 

 and beyond middle, first extended on dorsal half to base ; a slen- 

 derer transverse fascia at | ; two strigulae from costa posteriorly 

 united in disc ; a minute whitish crescentic dot at apex : cilia 

 grey, rbund apex with two dai'ker shades. Hindwings and cilia 

 grey. 



Bengal, Pusa, bred in May from larva mining in leaf of Man- 

 gifera indlca (Fletcher) ; one specimen. 



Acrocercops diatonica, n. sp. 



c? $ . 6-7 mm. Head whitish-grey. Palpi dark fuscous, ter- 

 minal joint whitish with dark fuscous median ring. Antennae 

 Avhitish, basal joint with apex dark fuscous, and grey projecting 

 anterior tuft. Thorax whitish-grey, patagia white, shoulders dark 

 fuscous. Abdomen grey, beneath white banded with dark fuscous. 

 Forewings very narrowly elongate -lanceolate ; light brownish-grey 

 irrorated with blackish ; six slender somewhat oblique white fasciae 

 edged with black scales, somewhat sprinkled with dark fuscous 

 except towards costa, third slightly broader, postmedian, fifth and 

 sixth very slender, near together and finely connected in disc, fifth 

 incomplete beneath this ; sometimes a minute whitish apical dot : 



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