Micro-Lepidoptera from Mauritius and Chagos Isles. 373 
Idioglossa, Wals. 
Idioglossa higemma, Wals. 
]\Iauritius; one specimen. 
OECOPHORIDAE. 
Epiphractis, Meyr. 
Epiphractis ampliitriclia, n. sp. 
22 mm. Head and thorax rosy-grey. Palpi dull flesh-coloiu 
irrorated with grey. Antennae simple, grey. Abdomen light grey, 
anal tuft grey-whitish. Forewings suboblong, costa rather strongly 
arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, little oblique : on lower 
surface with a fringe of extremely long hairs directed downwards 
from vein 12 except towards extremities; dull light brownish- 
crimson, with some scattered fuscous scales ; an inwardly oblique 
purplish-fuscous streak from dorsum beyond middle, reaching J 
across wing; a cloudy purplish-fuscous dot in disc beyond f, and 
a short inwardly oblique streak from tornus : cilia light greyish- 
crimson. Hindwings ochreous-whitish, slightly crimson-tinged to¬ 
wards termen ; a long subcostal pencil of ochreous-whitish hairs 
lying along upper margin of cell beneath forewings ; cilia ochreous- 
whitish. 
Mauritius, Les Mares, in December; one specimen. 
GRACILARIADAE. 
Acrocercops, Wallgr. 
Acrocercops macrochalca, n. sp. 
. 10 mm. Head white. Palpi white, second joint dark fuscous 
towards apex, with a short apical projection of scales beneath. 
Thorax white, patagia golden-fulvous. Abdomen light ochreous- 
grey. Forewings very narrowly elongate, apex rather short-pointed ; 
golden-orange-fulvous ; costal third occupied by a suffused shining 
brassy-golden streak from base to near apex ; three narrow rounded 
snow-white spots lying along dorsum, strongly black-edged above, 
connected on dorsal edge, first short, from base, second longest, third 
reaching tornus, a fourth similar disconnected spot along termen ; a 
white striga along posterior part of costa into apex : cilia light 
greyish-ochreous, base suffused with orange-fulvous, at apex with 
