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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
latter forming a short projecting apical hook, termen with two dark 
fuscous shades, outer retracted beneath apex, tornal cilia grey. 
Hindwings grey ; cilia light brownish-grey. 
Transvaal, December ; 1 ex. (Coll. Janse). 
Acrocercops oxyloga, n. sp. 
$ . 9 mm. Head white. Palpi white, second joint with very 
long projecting triangular tuft beneath, dark fuscous except apical 
margin. Thorax whitish, shoulders dark fuscous. Forewings dark 
fuscous ; an irregular white streak, irregularly marked with dark 
fuscous strigulae, along dorsum from base to tornus, thence extended 
as a fine terminal streak to near apex ; some very fine whitish 
striolation beneath costa posteriorly ; a cloudy blackish apical dot, 
edged whitish above and beneath : cilia white, a black basal line 
followed by a dark fuscous shade, and postmedian dark fuscous 
shade, tornal cilia pale greyish. Hindwings dark grey; cilia grey. 
Transvaal, January; 1 ex. (Coll. Janse). 
Acerocercops tanysphena, n. sp. 
2 . 9 mm. Head white, crown tinged grey. Palpi white, tinged 
grey externally. Thorax grey, a white dorsal stripe. Forewings dark 
grey, speckled white posteriorly; a white streak along anterior half 
of dorsum, and two oblique wedge-shaped spots posteriorly, second 
with apex slenderly produced to reach half across wing ; a fine white 
very oblique striga from costa at ^ to disc at | ; an oblique white 
strigula from costa at f , terminated by bluish-leaden; a slightly 
curved transverse bluish-leaden line at 4-, lower end bent inwards 
and whitish ; a minute black apical dot : cilia white, on eosta dark 
grey becoming bluish basallv with three white dots, at apex with 
black obliquely projecting hook, on termen with base greyish 
within a black subbasal line. Hindwings and cilia grey. 
Phodesia, Bulawayo, December (Coll. Janse); 1 ex. 
Acrocercops fustigera, n. sp. 
6 $ • 7-8 mm. Head, thorax pale ochreous-grey. Palpi 
whitish, second joint with long rough triangular projecting tuft 
blackish except apical edge, terminal joint blackish anteriorly 
except towards base. Forewings grey, dorsal area tinged ochreous 
and indistinctly strigulated transversely dark fuscous ; a black sub¬ 
costal streak on basal -i ; a black rhomboidal blotch along costa 
from | to beyond middle ; a similar blotch along costa from 4, 
marked two or three oblique greyish strigulee from costa and ter¬ 
minated by a slender curved blue-leaden line crossing wing towards 
apex ; apical area beyond this mostly blackish: cilia whitish- 
ochreous, blackish subbasal and subapical lines, tips mixed blackish, 
tornal area light greyish. Hindwings and cilia grey. 
Uganda, Kampala, bred February from larvae mining leaves of 
“ matama ” {Hargreaves) ; 4 ex. Type Brit. Mus. 
