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tuft of projecting scales. Antennas greyish, beneath white. Thorax pale ochre- 

 ous. Abdomen dark grey, beneath whitish becoming ochreous-tinged poste- 

 riorly, with laterial series of oblique dark grey stripes meeting beneath. Legs 

 yellow- whitish, ringed with blackish. Fore wings very narrowly elongate, 

 parallel-sided, moderately pointed ; bronzy-ochreous ; marking silvery white, 

 strongly edged with black ; a rather broad fascia, followed by a second more 

 oblique fascia united with it dorsally ; a moderate inwardly oblique fascia 

 from middle of costa, not reaching dorsum, posteriorly produced along costa 

 ._as a short fine twice interrupted line ; a rather broad very oblique fascia from 

 dorsum before tornus to about ^ of costa, bifurcate on costal half, furcation 

 filled with black ; white apical and prseapical costal dots : cilia whitish, basal 

 third yellow-ochreous, above apex ochreous-whitish, with a black apical 

 hook, towards tornus greyish, Hindwings and cilia grey. 



Khasi Hills, in March ; one specimen. 



Acrocercops macroplaca, n. sp. 



^. 11 mm. Head metallic-shining whitish-ochreous, face more whitish, 

 lower part mixed with gi"ey. Palpi white, second joint black except towards 

 base, beneath with tuft of long projecting mixed black and whitish scales. 

 Antennae whitish, dotted with grey. Thorax ochreous-whitish, mixed with 

 dark fuscous. (Abdomen broken.) Legs whitish, banded with yellowish and 

 ringed with blackish. Fore wings very narrowly elongate, gradually pointed 

 acute ; brownish, towards costa anteriorly suffused with rather dark fuscous 

 elsewhere towards costa yellowish-tinged ; costal edge dark fuscous ; an 

 irregular narrow ochreous-white blackish-edged inwardly oblique fascia at 

 \, narrowest towards costa ; an elongate white black-edged spot along costa 

 before middle, and a smaller similar one beyond middle ; an elongate ochre- 

 ous-whitish black-edged spot on fold at | ; an irregular elongate ochreous- 

 whitish, black-edged mark in middle of disc, connected with anterior extremity 

 of first costal spot ; a rather thick whitish-ochreous black-edged streak rising 

 from dorsum before tornus, then bent and continued to apex, becoming white 

 posteriorly ; a fine whitish line running from second costal spot beneath costa 

 into this streak near apex : cilia greyish, round apex ochreous-whitish, to- 

 wards base ochreous-yellowish, beneath apex with two blackish books. Hind- 

 wings and cilia grey. 



Khasi Hills, in November ; one specimen. 



Acrocercoiis melanojAecta, n. sp. 



^9. 9— 10 mm. Head yellow-whitish. Palpi white, second joint with 

 upper edge blackish, and beneath with rather long projecting scales towards 

 apex mixed with blackish. Antenna whitish spotted with grey. Thorax pale 

 whitish-yellowish. Abdomen whitish-ochreous tinged with grey, beneath white 

 with lateral series of oblique grey lines. Legs white, banded with pale ochre- 

 ous and indistinctly ringed with blackish, apex of anterior and middle tibiae 

 banded with black, Forewings very narrowly elongate-lanceolate, apex long- 

 pointed, acute ; yellowish-white, with scattered yellow-ochreous scales and 



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