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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
from Bombay, Salsette Island, bred from larva mining a rather long 
blotch under upper cuticle of leaf of Caly copter is jloribunda 
(Combretacece ), this foodplant being allied to Terminalia , as 
I anticipated in my description. 
Acrocercops chenopa, n. sp. 
d. 16 mm. Head, palpi, thorax whitish. Antennae whitish, 
towards apex dark grey. Bristles of posterior tibiae minute. Pore- 
wings very narrow; ochreous-whitish ; a patch of irregular black 
irroration (perhaps sexual) in disc towards base, beyond this a small 
blackish dorsal spot at \; fold marked yellow above this spot and 
between two minute blackish marks beyond it; a fine oblique 
blackish strigula from middle of costa, and one more oblique from 
near dorsum beneath it, not meeting ; remainder of wing beyond 
this tinged grey, margins of fold irrorated fuscous, towards apex 
some irregular fuscous strigulation, apex and margins towards it 
suffused orange, in apex a suffused round black spot, preceding this 
a leaden-metallic mark or spot: cilia pale greyish, an oblique black 
apical hook. Hindwings and cilia whitish; an expansible pencil of 
long dark grey hairs from costal edge near base. 
Uganda, Buvvenzori, 8^00 feet, August ( G. L. R. Hancock)', 
1 ex. (Brit. Mus.). The specimen is not in good condition, but is 
a curious form with unique features. 
Acrocercops strophala Meyr. 
Bombay, Mahableshwar, bred May from larvae mining blotches 
under upper cuticle of leaf of Glochiclion lanceolarium (Euj^hor- 
biacece), sometimes as many as six in separate blotches in one leaf; 
larvae wander to pupate in colourless semitransparent oval cocoons, 
the green pupa being visible inside, and when disturbed rolling 
itself rapidly round and round, making a distinctly audible 
scratching noise in doing so [Mrs. M. L. Maxwell). 
Parectopa Zehntneri Snell. 
Bombay, Mahableshwar, bred May from larvae feeding on Eugenia 
jambolana ( Myrtacece ) ( R . M. Maxwell). Mrs. M. L. Maxwell 
writes as follows on this interesting species : “ I spent a lot of time 
last May studying its life-habit, and found it a most difficult larva 
to rear. Egg is laid on undersurface of very’ young leaf, and a fine 
gallery is mined to midrib, in which larva mines. After a day or 
two larva leaves midrib and wanders to edge of leaf, where it cuts 
out a curved segment, the cut being incomplete at one end, so that 
the segment when twisted up stands erect from the underside of the 
leaf as a tightly rolled cone in which the larva feeds. Excrement 
is pushed out from the tip of cone. When this supply of food is 
exhausted (two or three days) larva emerges from base of cone which 
has been firmly spun down hitherto, and wanders to find another 
tender leaf in which it makes a similar cone. One larva was 
