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line from | of costa to dorsum ; a small round black apical spot: 
cilia white, three oblique fuscous lines above costa, a projecting 
brush from apex, a direct line from below apex, and a curved line 
from below apex to tornus. Hindwings and cilia white. 
Assam, Shillong, September ( Fletcher ) ; 1 ex. 
Leucoptera picrocosma, Meyr. 
Bombay, Karwar, bred xiugust ( Maxwell ) ; 3 ex. Head wholly 
smooth. Larva nearly colourless, dorsal canal dark green ; mines 
in July a gallery under upper cuticle of leaf of Mussaenda frondosa 
( Rubiacece ), following main veins up and down, with a dark line 
of excrement on either side of vein, and making also i-rregular 
blotches between the veins ; pupates in a white spindle-shaped 
cocoon outside the gallery beneath a white web. 
Leucoptera crobylistis, n. sp. 
3 . 6 mm. Head, thorax white, crown with strong rough 
posterior tuft. Forewings snow-white ; a very oblique slender pale 
yellowish streak from middle of costa, finely margined dark grey on 
both sides; a short slightly less oblique pale yellowish mark from 
costa at |, finely margined dark grey anteriorly; a small brassy- 
silvery-metallic spot on tornus, edged on each side with a blackish 
dot: cilia white, on costa an oblique yellowish wedgeshaped mark 
edged grey on both sides directed to apex. Hindwings and cilia 
white. 
Bombay, Karwar, bred August {Maxwell) ; 1 ex. Larva mines 
in August a blotch between two veins under upper cuticle of leaf 
of Pavetta indica (Rubiacece ) ; excrement gathered along on© side ; 
cocoon as in picrocosma. Extremely similar to picrocosma , but 
distinct by the presence of the occipital tuft. 
Bucculatrix rhombophora, n. sp. 
3 . 7 mm. Head white. Forewings caudulate, white ; broad 
oblique grej^ blotches irrorated blackish from costa towards base 
and beyond middle, and from dorsum somewhat anterior to and 
nearly meeting these ; a black terminal dot just beyond apex of 
second costal blotch ; an apical grey spot irrorated blackish. Hiird- 
wings grey. 
Bermuda, April ( Ogilvie ); 1 ex. (Brit. Mus.). 
Dolerothera theodora, n. sp. 
2 . 16 mm. Head, palpi, thorax white. Forewings elongate- 
lanceolate ; 2 absent; white, partially tinged pale yellow, especially 
posteriorly; a small orange apical spot, centred with a deeper dot: 
cilia white, suffused pale yellowish round apex. Hindwings and 
cilia white. 
Hew Ireland, December ( Eicldiorn ); 1 ex. Except for the 
absence of vein 2, it agrees well with the type of the genus, and 
need not at present be separated. 
