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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
Forewings narrow, apex moderately pointed, pale brownish irrorated 
dark fuscous, costa suffused dark fuscous; three slender slightly 
oblique transverse whitish lines, at about middle, and | ; a fine 
incurved transverse whitish line before apex: cilia light grey, 
median and subbasal blackish lines. Hindwings and cilia light 
grey, with faint violet tinge. 
Bombay, Salsette Island, Vihar Lake, bred December from larvae 
mining first a narrow wandering gallery and then an irregularly 
shaped blotch under upper cuticle of leaf of Briclelia retusa 
(Euphorbicicece ) ; larva turns bright red before pupating in a cream- 
coloured external oval cocoon (Mrs. M. L. Maxwell) ; 2 ex. Allied 
to dissotoma. 
Acrocercops sporograpta, n. sp. 
d $ . 6 mm. Head glossy bluish-grey. Palpi second joint 
white with blackish subapical band, terminal joint blackish. Thorax 
blue-blackish. Forewings very narrow, blue-blackish; seven very 
fine rafher irregular and sometimes interrupted transverse white 
lines, first almost basal, last almost apical, some scattered white 
scales in disc between these : cilia grey, a whitish basal dot at apex 
and two short whitish bars on terrnen, tips grey-whitish. Hind- 
wings dark grey ; cilia grey. 
Bombay, Mahableshwar, bred May from larvae mining a large 
oblong opaque blotch under upper cuticle of leaf of Litsea Stocksii 
(Lauracece ), larva green, turning red before wandering to pupate in 
a cream-coloured oval cocoon (Mrs. M. L. Maxwell)', 3 ex. 
Acrocercops hexalocha, Meyr. 
Sierra Leone, Njala, 2 ex., which I refer to this species, bred 
from larvae mining in leaves of Citrus (rough lemon) (E. Hargreaves). 
Acrocercops taeniarcha, n. sp. 
8. 7 mm. Head white, crown slightly speckled greyish. Palpi 
slender, whitish. Antennae white. Thorax whitish. Legs white 
ringed blackish, middle and posterior tibiae with blackish bands on 
apical half. Forewings ochreous-yellowish speckled fuscous, with 
fine transverse strigulae of dark fuscous irroration, especially on 
costa and dorsum ; narrow somewhat oblique white fasciae edged 
dark fuscous irroration at ^ and somewhat dilated towards 
dorsum, a third fascia in middle becoming obsolete towards dorsum, 
and two others indicated only by costal dots ; two white dots on 
terrnen towards apex, and two or three white scales in a curved 
transverse series before apex, apex beyond this infuscated : cilia 
grey, at apex whitish with a dark grey hook. Hindwings and 
cilia grey. 
Brazil, Manaos, November (Parish) ; 1 ex. 
Acrocercops niphocremna, n. sp. 
8 mm. Head, thorax white. Palpi white, second and terminal 
joints each with narrow dark fuscous median band. Forewings 
