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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
Acrocercops lithochrysa, n. sp. 
2 . 7 mm. Head metallic bronzy-grey. Palpi slender, grey- 
whitish. Thorax shining bronze. Porewings dark bronzy-fuscous ; 
two pale golden-metallic dorsal blotches, first oblong, from near 
base to -h, reaching more than half across wing, second occupying 
tornal fourth, semioval, reaching half across wing ; a fine oblique 
silvery-white streak from costa before middle, a costal dot beyond 
middle, and one in disc beyond this ; small silvery-white marks on 
costa at | and tornus opposite, connected by a slender coppery- 
purple transverse streak beyond them : cilia pale violet-grey with 
blackish median line, on costa before apex forming a rather raised 
projection preceded by an oblique silvery-white mark. Hindwings 
dark grey ; cilia light purple-grey. 
Uganda, Kampala, May (£T. Hargreaves) ; 2 ex. (type Brit. Mus.). 
A brilliant insect, probably related to the South American group of 
chrysocoma Meyr. 
Acrocercops thrylodes, n. sp. 
<5*$. 5-6 mm. Head, thorax glossy grey. Palpi filiform, grey, 
terminal joint slightly roughened anteriorly, hardly pointed. 
Antennae grey ringed darker. Forewings broader than usual, 
lanceolate; grey irrorated dark fuscous : cilia grey, several lines of 
blackish points except towards tornus. Hindwings and cilia grey. 
Bombay, Poona, bred July from larvae mining under folded edge 
of leaf of Carissa carandas ( A_pocynacece ) (Maxwell) ; 3 ex. A 
peculiar type. 
Acrocercops serriformis, n. sp. 
J5.8 mm. Head grey-whitish, sometimes slightly tinged 
ochreous. Palpi white, second joint with rather short rough 
triangular tuft beneath and oblique black bar, terminal joint with 
subbasal ring and apical half black. Thorax grey-whitish mixed 
grey, three blackish spots behind collar. Fore wings brown, some¬ 
what sprinkled black ; costal half suffused black, with three or four 
white marks on its lower edge on anterior half, and three fine irreg¬ 
ular oblique white strigulse crossing it on posterior half; four very 
oblique white dashes separated by black suffusion above anterior 
half of dorsum ; an irregular sinuate oblique white black-edged 
strigula from dorsum midway between first and second costal 
strigulae, and a white dot opposite third; an elongate black apical 
spot edged white above and beneath: cilia white, with a dark grey 
line. Hindwings and cilia dark grey. 
Java, bred December, January from larvae mining leaves of 
Hicinus communis (P . v. cl . Goot) ; 5 ex. 
Acrocercops astaurota Meyr. 
<5 5 . 9-10 mm. Grey scales of thorax and median ring of 
terminal joint of palpi sometimes obsolete. Antennal scape with 
projecting anterior flap of dense scales (not noted in original type, 
but present and characteristic); transverse line at f usually entire : 
