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wings on undersurface in ¢ suffused with blackish on costal half from. base 
to beyond middle. 
Maskeliya, Ceylon (Pole) ; in May and June, two specimens, 
Acroelita chlorissa, 0. sp. 
36 2. 12-14 mm. Head and thorax green, shoulders suffused with 
blackish. Palpi green, ebseurely spotted with blackish. Forewings elon- 
gate, posteriorly rather dilated, costa slightly arched, in ¢ with narrow 
fold extending from base to 2, apex round-pointed, termen sinuate, some- 
what oblique; green; markings obscurely edged with. iridescent-whitish ; 
triangular spots suffusedly outlined with black at base, on costa at 1, and 
on dorsum at 3; a blackish bletch on middle of costa; reaching half across 
wing, adjoining. which beneath is a spot outlined with black; a small 
blackish spot on costa beyond this; a transverse blackish blotch from costa 
beyond {, reaching more than half across wing; a triangular spot on 
dorsum suffusedly outlined with black, sometimes almost-touching this; a 
small black apical spot; a black terminal line: cilia green, with blackish 
apical spot. Hindwings with 3 and 4 very long-stalked.; grey ; cilia light 
grey, more whitish, towards tips. 
Khasis ; in-October, three specimens. 
Acrochta multiplex, n. sp. 
2. 14-16 mm. Head white. Palpi dark fuscous, terminal joint and 
apex of second white. Thorax white mixed with light grey, shoulders 
spotted with dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, somewhat dilated poste- 
riorly, costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, termen sinuate,-somewhat — 
oblique ; white, with some transverse leaden-grey marks, especially- towards 
dorsum ; costa strigulated with blackish ; a dark grey basal fascia marked’ 
with black; a dark grey black-edged spot on costa at}; a dark grey 
black edged blotch on dorsum at 3, reaching half across wing; a slender 
oblique dark fuscous streak from middle of costa not reaching half across 
wing ; a dark fuscous transverse blotch from dorsum before ocellus, marked: 
with black and a brown spot, reaching more than half across wing ; ocellus 
broadly margined with leaden-metallic, containing four short black marks 
adjacent to its posterior edge, separated with brownish, and surmounted 
by a semicircular blackish blotch; posterior half of costa. with small black- 
ish marks terminated beneath with ferruginous, alternating with strigule 
terminated with leaden-metallic ; a leaden-metallic striga before apex; a 
black apical mark edged above with ferruginous-brown and beneath with . 
white: cilia grey irrorated with white. Hindwings with 8 and 4 stalked ; 
grey ; cilia pale grey, with darker subbasal line. 
Patipola and Ohiya, Ceylon (Pole, Green) ; in April and November, two 
specimens. Superficially extremely like Hucosma cremnitis, but. smaller 
and apart from the differences in neuration, readily. distinguished by the » 
white head and apical portion of palpi. 
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