232 Mr. E. Mey rick's Descriptions of 



Acrocercops serrigera, n. sp. 



(J ?. 10-11 mm. Head white, crown centrally somewhat mixed 

 with grey or dark fuscous. Palpi white, second joint with long 

 dense projecting tuft beneath, dark fuscous except apical edge, 

 terminal joint somewhat roughened anteriorly below middle, with 

 slender blackish submedian and subapical rings more or less de- 

 veloped. Thorax white, patagia grey mixed -with blackish. Abdo- 

 men dark grey. Forewings very narrowly elongate-lanceolate; 

 dark grey, more or less mixed or longitudinally streaked with 

 black in disc; a narrow white streak along dorsum from base to 

 tornus, its dorsal edge suffused with pale greyish, its upper edge 

 with three irregular oblique projections, first at J, ground colour 

 suffused with blackish between these, and two very oblique lines 

 from extremity, almost reaching praeapical line; five or six very 

 oblique blackish lines from costa reaching nearly half across wing, 

 interspaces lighter or more or less white towards costa; a very 

 oblique wliite blackish -edged line from f of costa nearly to termen ; 

 a silvery-white oblique praeapical line from i of costa to middle 

 of termen; a white transverse dot or crescentic mark from costa 

 near apex ; an elongate apical mark of blackish suffusion, sometimes 

 hardly developed : cilia grey, round apex whitish with blackish 

 subbasal and median lines, with a black projecting apical hook. 

 Hindwings rather dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Ecuador, Alausi, 9450 feet, and Huigra, 4500 feet, in 

 June ; Peru, Lima, 500 feet, in August (Parish) ; thirty- 

 four specimens. 



Acrocercops hippuris, n. sp. 



(J $. 13-14 mm. Head white, tinged with ochreous on crown. 

 Palpi long, with scales of second joint somewhat roughened at 

 apex, white, subapical ring of second joint, and subbasal and 

 subapical rings of terminal joint more or less marked, dark fuscous. 

 Thorax ochreous-whitish. Abdomen ochreous-whitish, more or 

 less banded with grey posteriorly, in cJ with very large whitish - 

 ochreous anal tuft and long claspers. Forewings very narrow, 

 parallel-sided, short -pointed ; light brownish-ochreous or yellowish- 

 ochreous, more or less strongly mixed or suffused with dark grey, 

 especially in disc; from twelve to fourteen short thick rather 

 oblique whitish streaks from costa between base and *, and from 

 eight to ten nearly direct similar streaks or marks from dorsum, 

 each reaching about J across wing; an obtusely angulated trans- 

 verse leaden line about l ; a short black dash before apex, and a 



