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Acrocercops transecta, n. sp. 
2 • 10 mm. Head pale metallic-brassy-grey. Palpi slender, 
grey. Thorax pale iridescent-grey. Porewings very narrow; 
subiridescent grey-whitish, suffusedly and irregularly irrorated 
dark fuscous except towards costa between fascia? ; a narrow rather 
oblique dark fuscous fascia before middle, one beyond bordered with 
slight suffusion and parallel striae, and one at f only distinct on 
costa ; minute white dots at and beneath apex : cilia grey. Hind- 
wings and cilia grey. 
Japan, Gifu, Ikeno, October ( K . Talceuchi) ; 1 ex. 
Acrocercops zopherandra, n. sp. 
2 • 0-7 mm. Head grey-whitish. Palpi white, second joint 
blackish except tip, scales slightly expanded beneath towards apex, 
terminal joint with two black rings. Thorax dark grey mixed 
whitish. Porewings very narrow, pointed ; grey mixed and 
* irrorated dark fuscous; small irregular variable whitish strigulse 
or spots strewn along costal and dorsal areas ; an elongate black 
spot in disc towards apex ; a suffused blackish apical dot : cilia 
grey-whitish, two dark fuscous lines. Hindwings and cilia light 
grey ; in a patch of blackish cilia occupying costa from about 
1 f q 3 
Bihar, Pusa, bred August and September from larvae mining 
leaves of Mallotus repanclus ( Euphorbiacece) ( Rangi ); 5 ex. Allied 
to telestis, but distinguished from all species of the genus by the 
costal patch of black cilia in hindwings of <$ . 
Acrocercops lencophaea Meyr. 
10 mm. Porewings light brownish-ochreous ; markings white, 
edged fuscous; a somewhat oblique fascia at |, with dorsal lobe 
posteriorly, usually not reaching costa; a narrow oblique fascia 
about middle, sometimes interrupted in middle, also with narrow 
dorsal lobe posteriorly; in one example a dorsal streak of w'hitish 
suffusion from base to tornus connecting these; an oblique strigula 
from costa about |, and tornal dot opposite ; apical area more or 
less suffused dark -grey, with marginal rows of white dots on costa 
and termen; undefined transverse antemedian and postmedian 
fasciae of infuscation more or less indicated : cilia grey, on costa 
dark gre} r , at apex whitish with grey subbasal line. 
Assam, Shillong, bred June from larvae mining leaves of Picris 
ovcdifolia (Bose), 4 ex.; also 2 taken July at Shillong, 5000 feet 
(T. B. Fletcher). The original description from captured examples 
is defective, and is therefore now supplemented as above. 
Acrocercops tenera Meyr. 
5 mm. Head, thorax whitish somewhat sprinkled grey. 
Antennae grey. Porewings ochreous-grey-whitish irrorated dark 
grey ; narrow 7 white transverse fasciae edged with small blackish 
