Exotic microlepidoptera, v1-5, Mar1912-Nov1937 . PRIZiTTED BT TAYLOR AND FRANCIS,RED LION COURT, FLECT STItlET. EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. Acrocercops triscalma, n. sp. c? . 6 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax grey. Abdomen dark grey,beneath whitish. Forewings very narrowly elongate-lanceolate ;dark greyish-purple; a cloudy white spot in disc at |, a dot at A,and a minute dot at apex: cilia grey. Hind wings dark fuscous;cilia grey. Kanaka, Karwar, bred in August and September from larv^mining blotches on upperside of leaves of Wagatea spicata (Le(/u-minosce), occupying whole leaf; cocoo
Exotic microlepidoptera, v1-5, Mar1912-Nov1937 . PRIZiTTED BT TAYLOR AND FRANCIS,RED LION COURT, FLECT STItlET. EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. Acrocercops triscalma, n. sp. c? . 6 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax grey. Abdomen dark grey,beneath whitish. Forewings very narrowly elongate-lanceolate ;dark greyish-purple; a cloudy white spot in disc at |, a dot at A,and a minute dot at apex: cilia grey. Hind wings dark fuscous;cilia grey. Kanaka, Karwar, bred in August and September from larv^mining blotches on upperside of leaves of Wagatea spicata (Le(/u-minosce), occupying whole leaf; cocoon external, white {Maxwell) ;two specimens. Acrocercops hemigljrpta, n. 6 mm. Head white. Palpi white, second joint externallysuffused with dark fuscous. Thorax dark purplish-fuscous. Abdo-men dark fuscous, beneath white ringed with dark grey, f orewinosvery narrowly elongate-lanceolate ; dark purplish-fuscous ; a ratheroblique white wedgeshaped mark from costa beyond middle, reach-ing half across wing, and two shorter less oblique similaexoticmicrolepid02meyr
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