FAM. GRACILARIADJE i5 



some species also sometimes with head appressed to surface and anterior pairs of legs spread out 

 sideways as in Epicephala. 



Larva cylindrical, tapering posteriorly, segments more or less deeply incised, legs and prolegs 

 developed; usually mining blotches in leaves, seldom in fruits or galls. 



Pupa sometimes within the mine, more often in a cocoon outside. 



Foodplants (known for thirty-eight species) very diverse, representing sixteen Orders; of these 

 the Myrtaceae, Lcguminosae, Malvaceae, Cupuliferae, Boraginaceae, Euphorbiaceae and Composiiae are most 

 favoured. 



Geographical distribution of species. — Principally Indo-Malayan and Australian, but 

 represented to some extent in every region; doubtless of Indian origin. In those regions where it is 

 dominant it appears to take the place of Lithocolletis, and to show a corresponding degree of develop- 

 ment; this may probably indicate contemporaneity of origin. 



GROUP A 



A. chrysargyra, Mevrick, Journ. Bomb. Xat. Hist. Soc. Vol. 18, p. S18 



(1908)/ 

 A. eupttala. Mevrick, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, p. 160 (1880). 

 A. eumetalla, Meyrick, ibidem, p. 160 (1880). 

 A. heliopla, Meyrick, ibidem, p. 5j (1907). 



A. alysidoia, Meyrick, ibidem, p 161(1880). — Plate, Figs. 10, 28a, b. 

 A. JwfmannieUa, Schleich, Stett. Ent. Zeit. Vol. 28, p. 452 (1867). 



imperiahlia, Stainton (nee Mann), Nat. Hist. Tin. Vol. 8. p. 194, pi. 5, 

 f. 3 11S64). 

 A. imperiahlia. Mann. Linn. Ent. Vol. 2, p. 365 (1847). 

 A. onosmodulla, Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Vol. 23, p. 409 (1902) 



(jmosmodiella). 



GROUP B 



India. 



E. Australia. 



E. Australia. 



Tasmania. 



Australia. 



C. and S. E. Europe. 



C. Europe. 

 X. America. 



9. A. argyrodesma, Mevrick, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, p. 194(1882). 



10. A. stricta, Meyrick, Journ. Bomb. Xat. Hist. Soc. Vol. 18, p. Si5 



(1908). 



11. A. acidula, Meyrick, Ent. M. Mag. Vol. 47. p. 2i3 (191 1). 



12. A. pentalocha, nov. sp. 1). Meyrick. 



i3. A. eugeniella, van Deventer. Tijdschr. v. Ent. Vol. 47. p. 11, pi. I, f. 4 



1190- . 

 14. A.urbana, Meyrick, Journ. Bomb. Xat. Hist. Soc. Vol. i_8. p. 816 



(1908). 

 i5. A. ordinatella. Meyrick, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, p. 140 (1880). 



16. A. irrorata. Turner, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austral, p. 124 (1894). 



17. A. geologica. Mevrick, Journ. Bomb. Xat. Hist. Soc. Vol. 18. p. 816 



(1908). 

 i -. A. quadrifasciata , Stainton, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (3), Vol. 1, p. 2g5. 



pi. 10, f. 5 (i863). 

 19. A. Hedemanni. Rebel. Ann. Xatur. Hofmus. Wien, Vol. 11. p. i36, 



pi. 3. f. i5 (1896). 



E. Australia. 

 Ceylon. 



India. 

 India. 

 Java. 



India. 



Ceylon, E. Australia. 

 E. Australia. 

 Ceylon. 



India. 



Madeira. Canary Isl. 



1.1 Acrocercops pentalocha, nov. sp. — [J2, 5mm. Head and palpi white. Thorax greyish-ochreous. Forewings narrow-lanceolate; 

 light brownish-ochreous. sprinkled with dark fuscous points along costa and dorsum : five narrow white transverse fasciae, edged with a sprinkling of dark 

 fuscous points, first near base, inwardly oblique, only distinct on costa, next three direct, entire, second at one-tbird, third rather beyond middle, fourth 

 at three- fourths, fifth near apex, angulated inwards in middle and edged anteriorly with black suffusion : cilia pale whitish-ochreous, at apex with an 

 undefined hook of blackish irroration, at tornus with a white patch. Hindwin^s grev ; cilia grey-whitish. Karwar, Kanara (Maxwelll; in August, 

 three specimens. 



