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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTEEA. 
fuscous bars, two others diverging from apex, and an oblique book 
beneath apex. Hindwings whitish-grey ; cilia whitish. 
Japan, Gifu, Ikeno, October (AT. Tdkeuchi ); 1 ex. A very 
distinct form. 
Epicephala sphenitis, n. sp. 
3 2 . 7-8 mm. Head, thorax white, tegulae greyish-ochreous 
or light fuscous. Palpi smooth, fuscous, tip white. Forewings 
rather narrow, elongate-lanceolate ; greyish-ochreous, more or less 
irrorated fuscous; a moderate or broad white dorsal streak 
attenuated to tornus, its upper edge emitting a vredgeshaped 
oblique streak before middle of wing, and its apex a longer similar 
streak; three oblique narrow wedgeshaped white streaks from 
costa about ty beyond middle, and at |, second sometimes meeting 
second dorsal streak before its apex ; a fine slightly curved trans¬ 
verse leaden-metallic line about beyond this a blackish prseapical 
dot, apical area round it tinged obscurely fulvous : cilia grey- 
whitish, round apex whiter with fine blackish subbasal line, basal 
on costa, and beyond this a blackish apical hook. Hindwings light 
grey ; cilia whitish-grey. * 
Bihar, Pusa, bred August from larvae boring seeds of Breynict 
rhamnoides ( Eupliorhiaceoz ) (Rangi) \ ■ 4 ex. Perhaps nearest 
trigonophora. 
Acrocercops dissotoma, n. sp. 
3 2 • 5-6 mm. Head whitish, crown sometimes tinged grey. 
Palpi slender, white, terminal joint with two fuscous rings. Scape 
blackish and somewhat dilated with scales. Thorax white 
suffusedlv mixed dark grey. Forewings narrow, pointed ; dark 
grey ; markings white, finely edged blackish ; a dot on costa at -1-; 
slender oblique fasciae at ^ and beyond middle, first sometimes 
interrupted in disc or incomplete dorsally; a short mark from costa 
at |, and two near together and converging between this and apex, 
all these sometimes almost extended with white scales to tornus : 
cilia grey-whitish, at apex a white basal dot edged blackish and 
dark grey hook beyond this. Hindwings grey ; cilia pale greyish. 
Bihar, Pusa, bred Julv-September from larvae mining leaves of 
Flemingia lineata ( Leguminosce ) (Rangi) ; 6 ex. Hearty allied 
to extenuata, but distinguished by the pair of white costal marks 
towards apex, in extenuata represented by a single mark only. 
Acrocercops psaliacma Meyr. 
This'name, as originally published in Aiin. Soc. Ent. Franc. 1929, 
739 (1930), is there misprinted paliacma. , which I now correct to 
psaliacma . 
Acrocercops praeclusa Meyr. 
Bred September at Pusa from larvae mining leaves of Odina 
wodier ( Anacardiacece ) (Rangi ) ; larval habits not previously known. 
