028 EXOTIC MICKOLKPIDOPTEKA. 



markings snow-white edged with black ; a narrow irregular un- 

 mai'gined fascia near base ; moderate transverse fasciae at | and 

 beyond middle, somewhat narrowed towards costa ; a curved ti-ans- 

 verse series of three small marks at |-, a large elongate spot on 

 costa towards apex, its posterior half reaching termen ; a white 

 apical dot : cilia grej-, with a basal blackish mark at apex. Hind- 

 wings and cilia grey. 



Kanaka, Karwar, bred in July and August from larvag mining 

 somewhat circular blotches in leaves of Memeci/hn amplexicaule 

 (Melastomacece), larva cylindrical with lateral prominences, emitting 

 single rather long hairs ; pupa internal in blotch, -without cocoon 

 {Maxwell) \ three specimens. 



Acrocercops aemula, n. sp. 

 6 $ . 8-9 ram. Head white. Palpi white, second joint more 

 or less marked with dark fuscous towards apex. Thorax white, 

 patagia fuscous. Abdomen dark grey, beneath whitish. Legs 

 blackish ringed with white, all tarsi white spotted with dark 

 fuscous. Forewings narrowly elongate-lanceolate ; rather dark 

 fuscous, towards termen brownish ; a broad white dorsal streak 

 from base, its upper edge from | to beyond tornus forming three 

 obtuse-triangular black-edged prominences, reaching hardly more 

 than half across wing, interspaces gently concave ; a white black- 

 edged dot on costa at | ; a fine white black-edged oblique trans- 

 verse streak before apex : cilia greyish, round apex white, beneath 

 apex with grey suffused bar, above apex with three dark fuscous 

 strigulae. Hindwings rather dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Bengal, Pusa, bred in February from larvae mining leaves of 

 Cynoglossmn {Boraginacece) (FhtcJier) ; five specimens. Extremely 

 like tricyma (which has a quite unrelated foodplant, Blumea, a 

 Compo>ite), but alw^ays distinguishable by the dark-spotled anterior 

 and middle tarsi (in tricyma wholly white) ; forewings also with 

 groundcolour darker, prominences of dorsal streak obviously shorter 

 and less abrupt. The European scalariella is also extremely close 

 (being likewise a Cynoglossmn- feeder), but without trace of first 

 prominence on dorsal streak. 



Acrocercops gemoniella Staint. 



Bred from green larvae mining large blotches in leaf of Bemecarpus 

 Anacanlium (Anacardiacece), several larvje in one blotch ; cocoon 

 external, creamcoloured {Maxwell). The same species was pre- 

 viously' sent by Mr. Maxwell as bred from sugarcane, but it would 

 seem probable that there roust have been some error in that record. 



Acrocercops scandalota Meyr. 



Larva mining blotch in leaf of Helicteres isora {Sferctiliacea') 

 {Maxwell). 



