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rounded, much projecting beneath, vertical. Pale whitish-tawny, densely 
transversely strigulated and suffused with tawny-fuscous. Costa finely 
transversely strigulated with dark fuscous. A dark fuscous very oblique 
straight line from costa beyond middle to about vein 9, on costa preceded 
by whitish colouring and below costa by a suffused moderate tawny spot ; 
this line connected with dorsum by an ill-defined band of dark fuscous 
suffusion, strongly dilated below, extending along dorsum from 1 / 5 to 
tornus; another such narrow dark fuscous line from a small dark elongate 
dot on costa before 3 / 4 , less oblique, straight, to termen above middle, 
thence along termen to above tornus, extended there to a small suffused 
spot; two pairs of dark fuscous small transverse marks edged with w r hite, 
on costa before apex; a fuscous transverse apical dot edged with white 
anteriorly, reaching below to middle of termen. Cilia tawny whitish, 
barred with blackish (damaged). Hind wing with dorsum extended into 
a large lobe which forms a pocket containing a long pencil of grey hairs ; 
dark bronze-fuscous, semipellucent; cilia concolorous. 
Uncus small, weak, two short horns, below these two short porrect 
projections and a median rising horn (possibly a very short gnathos). 
Socius large, elongate, pending, strongly bristled. Anus, two membra- 
neous flaps. Transtilla, a broad transverse weak band. Valva constricted 
beyond middle, cucullus obliquely projecting, rounded above, beaked, 
with a tooth beneath; sacculus rather weak. Aedoeagus weak, moderate. 
Anellus large (Slide No. 819 D, type). 
Rattan Camp, 1200 m, February 19, 1939. One specimen. 
Acrolita Lederer, 1859 
Acroclita Lederer, 1859, Wien. Ent. Mon., vol. 3, p. 329. Meyrick, Proc. Linn. 
Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. 36, pp. 234-235, 1911. Rev. Handb., p. 529, 1928. Fletcher, 
Mem. Agrie. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 4, 1029. 
Palaeobia Meyrick, 1881, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. 6, pp. 660-661. 
Holocola Meyrick, 1881, ibidem, pp. 669-670. 
Acroclita allodapa spec. nov. (figs. 358, 363) 
u/^odanog = from an other country 
s 15 mm, $ 12—16 mm. Head tawny -fuscous in male, light tawny in 
female, face white. Antenna dark fuscous, paler towards base. Palpus 
(in male broken) tawny-greyish, apical edge of median segment and tip 
of terminal segment white. Thorax in male whitish-greyish, suffused with 
tawny anteriorly; thorax in female tawny, slightly mixed with fuscous, 
pleurae whitish. Abdomen tawny -whitish, suffused with dark grey above, 
except anal tuft. Legs whitish, suffused with fuscous or blackish above, 
white-ringed. Fore wing elongate, subovate, apex subfalcate; costa 
moderately curved, more so anteriorly; termen strongly excavate below 
apex, gradually strongly rounded beneath this excavation. White, partially 
suffused with glossy leaden-grey, irrorated with tawny, marked with 
