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lateral streaks, anterior thick and limiting central fascia : cilia 
light greyish partly mixed dark fuscous, a greenish-brown subbasal 
line. Hindwings dark fuscous ; cilia light grey, a dark fuscous 
subbasal shade. 
Brazil, Blumenau ; 1 ex. (Vienna Mus.). The first described 
South American species of the genus, but I have an undescribed 
species, and the genus occurs in North America. 
Acroclita microrrhyncha, n. sp. 
2 . 15 mm. Head pale brownish, a patch in centre of forehead 
grey-whitish. Palpi grey, upper hairscales grey-whitish. Thorax 
light fuscous. Forewings elongate, moderate, costa gently arched, 
apex obtuse-prominent, termen abruptly sinuate beneath it, then 
rather obliquely curved ; grey, bases of scales whitish, forming a 
very fine transverse striolation ; very small dark fuscous costal 
spots and strigulse, posteriorly semioval, extreme costal edge whitish 
between these; basal patch fuscous, edge gently rounded, oblique, 
reaching middle of dorsum ; central fascia slender, irregular, 
oblique, fuscous, in middle with a dark fuscous mark forming an 
abrupt prominence on posterior edge ; a faintly submetallic streak 
on anterior margin of ocellus ; upper part of termen slenderly 
fuscous : cilia grey speckled whitish. Hindwings grey ; cilia pale 
greyish. 
Indian N.W. Frontier, Parachinar, bred October from leaves of 
apple collected September ( Mujtaba ); 1 ex. Allied to naevana, 
but broader-winged. 
Eucosma loxaspis, n. sp. 
2 . 12 mm. Head, thorax greyish. Palpi grey, a pale ochreous 
median band. Forewings rather elongate, rather dilated, costa 
gently arched, termen somewhat rounded, little oblique ; light 
greyish-oehreous, transversely striated grey except towards costa; 
costa marked with ochreous-whitish single oblique strigulse, and 
small fuscous wedgeshaped spots or marks between these, on 
posterior half with short obscure bluish-leaden strigse from these, 
from middle of costa a longer stria running to termen beneath apex; 
ocellus narrow, running obliquely along termen, enclosing four 
elongate black marks connected posteriorly by a leaden-metallic 
line : cilia light greyish-oehreous, base greyer, outer half fuscous 
except at tornus. Hindwings rather dark grey ; cilia grey. 
Java, Buitenzorg, bred from larvee spinning small white webs on 
shoots of bamboo, “ which are fanatically attended by black ants 
(Dolichoderus bituberculatus )” ( Dr . W. KoejpJce ); 2 ex. (type Brit. 
Mus.). 
Eucosma plumbaginea, n. sp. 
<y. 15 mm. Head, thorax pale brownish-ochreous mixed 
brownish, face ochreous-whitish. Palpi short, brownish, apical 
half ochreous-white. Forewings rather elongate, costa gently 
arched, without fold, apex obtuse, termen faintly sinuate, hardly 
