﻿Nov. 15, 1908.] Indian Micro-lepidoptera. -^W- 



Acrocercopn strtcta,n. Bp. 



^. 6 mm. Head whitish, lower part of face grey. Labial palpi rather 

 short, expanded with loose scales, white, second and terminal joints with black 

 basal bands. Maxillary palpi expanded with loose scales, white banded with 

 black. Antennae dark grey, beneath whitish. Thorax blackish. Abdomen dark 

 fuscous, beneath sharply banded with white. Legs white banded with blackish. 

 Forewings narrowly lanceolate ; grey closely irrorated with blackish ; a small 

 whitish spot on costa towards base ; slender slightly oblique white fasciae at ^ 

 and beyond middle, each with two or three separate black scales in disc ; two 



app roximated opposite pairs of small ill-defined whitish costal and dorsal spots 



posteriorly ; an undefined white apical dot : cilia dark grey, beneath apex with , b 

 a short subbasal dash of whitish suffusion. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon, in July (Pole) ; one specimen. The expanded maxillary . 

 palpi are exceptional. 



Acrocercops urhana, n. sp. 



^ . 9 mm. Head white. Palpi white, second joint with two dark grey rings, 

 apical scales somewhat projecting, terminal joint with traces of a grey median 

 ring. Antennae light greyish, white towards base. Thorax white, anteriorly 

 mixed with blackish. Abdomen grey, beneath white with median and apical 

 black bands. Legs white ringed with black. Forewings very narrow-lanceo- 

 late ; white ; four rather oblique parallel fasciae ; first almost basal, light 

 yellow-browinsh, very undefined, second broad, blackish, third moderate, 

 light brownish, becoming black on costa, fourth narrow, light brownish, mixed 

 with black on costa ; between each pair of these fasciae is a series of three 

 small black dots, costal, discal, and dorsal ; a blackish apical patch, preceded 

 by a slender oblique pale brownish streak, and some scattered blackish scales : 

 cilia whitish-ochreous, round apex greyish with a black postmedian line, at 

 apex with a white basal spot followed by blackish. Hindwings grey ; cilia 

 light grey. 



Khasi Hills, in October ; one specimen. 



Acrocercops ordinatella, Meyr. 



{Gracilaria ordinatella, Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1880, 145.) 



Peradeniya, Ceylon, in June (Green) ; one specimen, exactly similar to my 

 Australian examples. 



Acrocercops quadrifasciata, Stt. 



{Gracilaria quadrifasciata, Stt., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., (3rd Ser.), 295, pi. x, 

 5.) 



Very close to the preceding and following species, but apparently distinct ; 

 I have not obtained specimens. 



Acrocercopis geologica, n. sp. 



(^ V • 6-7 mm. Head shining white. Palpi white, second joint with an 

 ochreous-grey ring, terminal joint with three faint ochreous rings. Antenna3 

 white, faintly ringed with ochreous. Thorax whitish-ochreous. Abdomen 

 whitish. Legs white, faintly ringed with ochreous, middle tibite with grey 



