Jai 
June 3, 1914.] Indian Micro-Lepidoptera, 74 
Acrocercops austeropa, nN. sp. 
6. 9mm. Head ochreous-grey-whitish. Palpi with second joint broad- 
ly tufted with long ochreous-grey-whitish hairs, blotched with blackish, 
terminal joint whitish with two blackish rings. Thorax greyish spotted 
with dark fuscous. Abdomen grey, beneath whitish, with lateral series of 
oblique black bars. Forewings very narrow, elongate-lanceolate; dark fuscous, 
irrorated with whitish points ; a suffused blackish dot towards dorsum at 3, 
followed by an oblique mark of whitish suffusion ; an undefined oblique 
blackish streak from middle of costa, reaching 3 across wing, lower portion 
edged with whitish anteriorly ; two shorter oblique blackish streaks from 
costa posteriorly, and one inwardly oblique before apex; a dot of dark 
suffusion on tornus, edged above with whitish ; an indistinct fine blue-leaden 
line crossing wing towards apex: cilia grey, round apex with black subbasal 
line and some series of blackish points. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia grey. 
Supa, Kanara, bred in May (Maxwell); one specimen. Larva feeding 
on “ Akri” (Maxwell); the cocoon (forwarded) is very flat, oval, attached 
to surface of leaf, whitish-ochreous, with four scattered bubbles on its sur- 
face, apparently similar to those on the cocoon of Epicephala chalybacma, 
Allied to patricia ; tuft of palpi unusually long. 
Acrocercops scenias, N. sp. 
2. 7mm. Head white, crown mixed with dark fuscous. (Labial palpi 
broken.) Thorax white mixed with dark fuscous. Abdomen fuscous, 
beneath white, with lateral series of oblique black bars. Forewings ex- 
tremely narrowly elongate-lanceolate ; brown irregularly mixed with black ; 
four triangular white dorsal blotches reaching costa except fourth, their 
dorsal edge mixed with brown and strigulated with black, first two confluent 
dorsally and extending from base to 2 of wing, third beyond middle, just 
touching second and fourth, fourth tornal; costa from second to apex 
dotted with white ; a blackish dash above posterior edge of fourth; a small 
white spot on termen towards apex: cilia grey, round apex white with 
dark fuscous line. Hindwings rather dark grey; cilia grey. 
Karwar, Kanara, bred in June (Maxwell) ; one specimen. Larva bright 
green, mining galleries in leaves of ‘‘Changana”’ bush, many larvee in each 
leaf ; pupa long, green, in oval white transparent cocoon on depressed vein 
of leaf (Maxwell). Allied to telestis. 
Stomphastis plectica, Meyr. 
Larva mining blotches in leaves of Sebastiana chamelea (Euphorbiaceae) ; 
pupa in detached oval white cocoon in depression on top of leaf, preferring 
the extreme tip ( Maxwell ). This insect occurs also in South Africa. 
Cyphosticha pterocola, n. sp. 
36 2.9 mm. Head whitish, face ochreous-tinged, sides of forehead 
marked with dark fuscous. Palpi slender, whitish, second and terminal 
joints each with two bands of dark fuscous irroration, Thorax white, patagia 
ochreous-grey sprinkled with dark fuscous. Abdomen dark grey. Middle 
tibixe and tarsi thickened with dense scales, dark fuscous, with whitish band 
before apex of tarsi ; posterior tibix dark fuscous, apex white, tarsi white, 
three basal joints with blackish apical bands and projections of rough scales 
above. Forewings very narrowly elongate-lanceolate, purple-greyish-ochre- 
ous irrorated with dark fuscous ; an irregular-edged attenuated white streak 
running along dorsum from base to about tornus, marked with some minute 
scattered brownish strigul : cilia grey, round apex whitish-grey with violet 
reflections and three dark grey lines. Hindwings dark grey; cilia grey. 
N, Coorg, at 3,500 fect, in January (Newcome) ; two specimens. A pecu- 
liar species, possibly worthy of generic separation on the tarsal characters. 
Gracilaria ariana, X. sp. 
2. 13 mm. Head crimson-grey, face white. Palpi slender, crimson, 
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