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EXOTIC MICROLEPEDOPTERA. 
Lithocolletis bauhiniae Staint. 
Mrs. M. L. Maxwell has sent me an example of a most extra¬ 
ordinary variety, bred in company with the normal form from 
mines found on Salsette I.; the antemedian and postmedian oblique 
white streaks are replaced by direct transverse white blotches not 
reaching costa, the former subquadrate, the latter narrow and 
irregular but absorbing also the lower part of the third streak, 
which is reduced to the separate costal half only; the lower parts 
of the dark margins of the streaks are thus obliterated, but the 
upper parts are perceptible as usual, in their proper positions, 
apart from the white markings ; the cilial line is as usual. My first 
impression was that it was obviously a quite different insect, but 
after close comparison I agree with Mrs. Maxwell’s expressed 
opinion that it is an abnormal variety only. 
Phrixosceles scioplintha, n. sp. 
3 . 8 mm. Head, palpi white, sides of crown greyish. Thorax 
light greyish, a dorsal line and apex of tegulas white. Forewings 
white ; markings formed by confluence of fine dark fuscous 
transverse strigulation, viz. broad imperfect basal and antemedian 
fasciae, some marking on dorsal half between these, a wedgeshaped 
streak along termen, some irregular fine fuscous speckling on 
posterior half of wing, and a faint pale ochreous streak from disc 
at | to apex : cilia whitish, opposite apex with two dark fuscous 
lines. Hindwings pale bluish-grey ; cilia whitish. 
Formosa, Taihoku, December {Prof. S. IssiJci) • 1 ex. 
Acrocercops hexaclosta, n. sp. 
3 . 6 mm. Head, thorax white. Palpi white ringed dark 
fuscous. Scape white with a black scaletuft. Forewings very 
narrow, pointed; light brownish-ochreous, irrorated blackish on 
costal third and a plical line ; six slender rather irregular white 
transverse fasciae edged blackish irroration, first at jl, direct, second 
and third slightly curved and converging towards costa, fourth 
nearly direct, fifth rather oblique, sixth direct, praeapical, some 
irregular whitish suffusion in disc more or less developed between 
the fasciae : cilia greyish, base speckled blackish. Hindwings dark 
grey; cilia grey. ^ 
Java, Mt. Gede, 2650 feet, bred September from larvae mining 
leaves of Macciranga (?) {Euphorbia cece) {Dr. L. G. E. KaJshoven ) 
2 ex. 
Acrocercops petalopa, n. sp. 
3. 6 mm. Head white. Palpi white, apical band of second 
joint and median band of terminal dark fuscous. Thorax ochreous- 
brown. Fore wings narrow, short-pointed ; ochreous-brown ; base 
very narrowly and irregularly white, and a short white transverse 
