NEPXICTJLIDiE. 
295 
flat, oval, whitish, with 4 yellow bubbles on margins at the points 
of a regular rhombus ; imago sits level (forepart not raised), 
antennas folded down back ( Maxwell ). Allied to scriptulata, and 
probably to the African rhothiastis , which also is attached to a 
Bridelia. 
Acrocercops anthracuris, n. sp. 
<$. 7 mm. Head whitish-grey on crown, face white, forehead 
mixed black. Palpi second joint blackish, terminal white with 
median ring and apex black. Basal joint of antennae with blackish 
anterior tuft. Thorax grey mixed darker. Abdomen ochreous- 
whitish, anal segment and large valves blackish. Forewings 
fuscous ; a slender black streak along basal third of costa, beneath 
this a dark grey elongate patch extended to disc beyond middle, 
apex pointed, edged above from costal streak to apex obscurely 
ochreous-whitish, on lower edge three black plical spots, between 
second and third an ochreous-whitish mark ; an oblique black 
wedgeshaped streak from costa beyond middle reaching half across 
wing; a curved rather oblique transverse fine blue-leaden line 
about |; a short white dash edged blackish beneath preceding this 
below middle ; beyond this a thick black costal streak to apex, and 
narrow black streak on lower part of termen edged above by a 
white dash: cilia light grey, round apex whitish-tinged with 
blackish postmedian line and on termen a finer antemedian line. 
Hindwings thinly scaled, dark grey ; cilia light grey. 
Bombay, Poona, bred May from pupa in flat white cocoon found 
on leaf of Pongamia glabra (Leguminoscz) (Maxwell ) ; 1 ex. 
Gracilaria teleodelta, n. sp. 
c 5 . 7 mm. Head, thorax light purplish-grey, face white. Palpi 
white, towards apex dark grey, fibre wings light purplish-grey ; a 
yellow-whitish equilateral-triangular spot on costa before middle 
just reaching dorsum, edged with a few black specks; a slight 
projection of blackish-tipped scales on dorsum just before it, and 
one midway between this and base : cilia light grey, round apex 
some dark fuscous specks, at apex a short blackish subbasal line. 
Hindwings grey ; cilia light grey. 
Bombay, Poona, December ( Maxwell ); 1 ex. 
NEPTICULIDiE. 
Neptieula acontarcha, n. sp. 
J $ . 4 mm. Head, eyecaps pale ochreous. Thorax fuscous, 
anterior third pale ochreous. Middle spurs of posterior tibiae above 
middle. Forewings fuscous sprinkled darker; a whitish-ochreous 
gradually expanded patch from base along costa to middle, thence 
extended as an irregular oblique fascia to dorsum, beneath this a 
thick blackish streak from near base to middle ; an irregular white 
blotch on costa just before apex, costa between this and preceding 
