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apical band. Forewings very narrowly elongate-lanceolate ; pale shining- 

 oclireous ; five moderate rather oblique white fascia?, very faintly edged with 

 fuscous, and each marked with three fuscous dota or strigulse, costal, discal, 

 and dorsal, first fascia near base ; a sixth white fuscous-edged fascia close 

 before apex, contracted on termen : cilia pale grey mixed with whitish on 

 termen, round apex dark fuscous towards base, -vfrith a white subbasal dot at 

 apex. Hiudwings rather dark grey ; cilia pale grey. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon, in February (Pole) ; two specimens. 



Acrocercops nitidula, Stt. 



{Gracilaria nilidula, Stt., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., i. (3rd Ser.), 299, pi. x, 9.) 



I do not possess this species. 



Acrocercops terminalioi, Stt. 



{Gracilaria lerminalicc, Stt,, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., i. (3rd Ser.), 298, pi. x, 8.) 



Apparently allied to cathedrosa, but I do not possess it. I note here that 

 Gracilaria falcatella, Stt., Trans, Ent. Soc. V. (n. ser.), 121, does not belong to 

 this group at all, but to the ElacUstidce, 



Acrocercops cathedreaa, n. sp. 



$. 8 mm. Head and thorax white. Palpi white, second joint with dark 

 fuscous apical band. Antennae grey, towards base white. Abdomen grey 

 beneath white with dark fuscous rings. Legs white, banded with dark fuscous. 

 Forewings very narrow, elongate-lanceolate ; light ochreous-brown ; five white 

 fasciae finely edged with black, first moderate, basal, enclosing a small spot of 

 ground colour on costa, second rather broad, narrower on costa, outer edge 

 angulated near dorsum, third beyond middle, moderate, obUque, abruptly 

 dilated below middle so that posterior edge forms a quadrate dorsal expansion, 

 fourth slender, oblique, more or less narrowly interrupted in middle, fifth 

 anteapical, moderately broad, oblique, rather irregular : cilia pale greyish 

 white on basal half at apex and on lower extremity of fifth fascia, with two 

 incomplete black lines. Hiudwings rather dark grey ; cilia light grey. 



Khasi Hills, in September and October ; three specimens. 



Acrocercops ortholocha, n. sp. 



9 . 8-9 mm. Head and thorax shining white. Palpi white, second joint 

 with grey apical band. Antennas pale greyish, becoming white towards base. 

 Abdomen pale grey, beneath white with grey rings. Legs white ringed with 

 grey. Forewings very narrow, slightly widest near base, short-pointed ; rather 

 light yellowish- brown ; four shining white fascia edged with black, slightly 

 narrowed towards costa, first narrow, basal, other three moderately broad, 

 fourth at 4, not black-edged posteriorly, apical area black on costal half, in- 

 cluding a white anteapical strigula from costa and a white apical dot : cilia pale 

 greyish-ochreous, round apex whitish with a black basal line. Hindwings hght 

 grey ; cilia pale greyish-ochreous. 



Khasi Hills, in October ; two specimens. 

 Acrocercops triplaca, n. sp. 



$. 1- mm. Head shining white. Palpi whit^', upper edge of second joint 

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