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N. Coorg, at 8,500 feet, in January (Newcome) ; two specimens. Allied 

 to group of ordinatella. 



Acrocercops scandalota, n. sp. 



S . 7 mm. Head grey-whitish, collar .ochreous-whitish. Palpi slender 

 white, lined above with dark fuscous. Thorax ochreoiis-whitish, patagia 

 dark fuscous. Forewings extremely narrowly elongate-lanceolate ; dark 

 bronzy-fuscous ; a narrow ochreous-whitish streak along dorsum from base 

 to tornus ; close beyond this a triangular ochreous-whitish spot hardly 

 reaching costa, followed by an oblique silvery-whitish costal strigula 

 surrounded with blackish-fuscous ; a small ochreous-whitish triangular sj)ot 

 on termen before apex ; a silvery-whitish oblique strigula surrounded with 

 blackish-fuscous crosssing apex, partly in costal cilia : cilia grey, round apex 

 whitish, with a short dark fuscous subbasal mark opposite apex, and two bars 

 beneath apex. Hindwings and cilia rather dark grey, with violet reflections. 



N. Coorg, at 3,600 feet, in January (Newcome) ; one specimen. Allied 

 to the Australian didymella. 



Acrocercojjs (/emoniella, Staint. 



Having now obtained genuine examples of this species, I find that the 

 insect previously recorded by me under this name is really a distinct species, 

 which is described below ; I had remarked a difference, but supposed it to 

 be varietal (Vol. XVIII, p. 820). Larva mining blotches in leaves of 

 Sugarcane {Sacchcn-uin officinarum) ; pupa in external oval brownish-yellow 

 cocoon in depression on surface of leaf (Maxwell). Stainton's original 

 type was bred, but from an unknown plant. 



Acrocercops prceclusa, n. sp. 



cj ? . 7-8 mm. Head silvery -white. Palpi slender, white. Thorax white, 

 patagia ochreous-bronzy. Abdomen grey, beneath whitish. Forewings very 

 narrowly elongate, parallel-sided, moderately pointed ; bronzy-ochreous ; 

 a narrow white dorsal stripe from base to tornus, posterior third expanded 

 into a semioval dilation reaching half across wing, edge otherwise straight ; 

 a somewhat oblique free white strigula from costa directed towards 

 extremity of this ; a broad white praeapical fascia narrowed towards costa, 

 adjoining a black apical dot: cilia pale grey, round apex white, at apex with 

 a short black subbasal hook. Hindwings grey ; cilia pale ochreous-grey. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon, in March and April (Pole) ; N. Coorg, at 3,500 feet, in 

 October (Newcome) ; six specimens. Formerly recorded as gemoniella, from 

 which it differs by absence of median prominence of dorsal streak and dorsal 

 dot of groundcolour beneath it, also by prseapical fascia fully reaching costa 

 in moderate breadth, whereas in (/emoniella it is rounded oft' above so as 

 hardly to reach it. 



Aci'ocercojys synfframma, n. sp. 



c? . 7 mm. Head white, face pale grey. Palpi slender, white. Thorax 

 white, patagia bronzy. Abdomen grey, apex dark fuscous, ventral surface 

 white, segmental margins dark fuscous. Forewings extremely narrowly 

 elongate-lanceolate ; bronzy-fuscous ; a moderate white streak along dorsum 

 from base to tornus, its posterior fourth forming a semioval dilation reachino- 

 § across wing, edge otherwise straight ; a somewhat oblique white strigual 

 from f of costa, running into a subtriangular white prseapical fascia whose apex 

 narrowly reaches costa, limiting a black apical dot : cilia grey, round apex 

 white, with a grey bar below apex, and a black subbasal hook at apex. 

 Hindwings rather dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Karwar, Kanara, bred in July (Maxwell) ; two specimens. Larva mining 

 a compact blotch in leaves of Mango {Mangifera indica) ; pupa in a detached 

 oval brownish-yellow cocoon on surface of leaf (Maxwell). The species is 

 very similar to prceclusa, but differs by the costal strigula runnino- into 

 prasapical fascia, and conspicuous dark apex of abdomen. 



