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ANNALS
MEDEDELINGEN
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VAN HET
TRANSVAAL MUSEUM
VOLUME VI
Printed for the
COMMITTEE OF THE TRANSVAAL MUSEUM BY THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND
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LIST OF CONTENTS
VOLUME VI
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Hewitt, John
Descriptions of New South African Araneae and Solifugae. (4 Plates and 13 Text-figures) 63
Meyrick, E., B.A., F.R.S.
Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera ... 7
Pott, R. (Mrs)
A New Species of Warburgia from the Transvaal. (2 Text-figures) . 60
Addendum to the First Check-list of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Transvaal and Swaziland. (2 Text-figures) . . . 119
Roberts, Austin
Descriptions of a New Species and Genus of Flycatchers from East Africa, and two New Subspecies of Guinea Fowls from South Africa 1
Descriptions of two New Species of a New Subgenus of Bats, and a New Species of Molerats 4
Descriptions of some New Mammals 112
Some notes on Birds, and Descriptions of New Subspecies . . 116
INDEX TO VOLUME VI
(New genera, subgenera, species, subspecies, and the main reference in a series of references in heavy-faced type; synonyms are in italics.)
abrahami, Acanthodon, 76, hi Abutilon, 130
abyssinicum, Asplenium, 120 Acacia, 126 Acalypha, 129 ACANTHACEAE, 133 Acanthodon, 63, 67, 75, 102, 107, no, in acaulis, Geigeria, 135 Acompsia, 20 Acrocercops, 39 Acrostichum , 121 aculeastrum, Solanum, 133 aculeata, Aloe, 122 Eulophia, 124 Toddalia, 128
aculeatum, Polystichum, 120 acuminata, Markhamia, 133 acuta, Adenocline, 130 Elaeophorbia, 129 Lotononis calycina, 127 acutifolia, Melothria, 134 acutilobus, Cucumis africanus, 134 ADELIDAE, 47, 59 adendorffi, Mirafra apiata, 117 Adenia, 13 1 Adenocline, 130 Adiantopsis, 121 aegyptiacus, Nyctinomus, 4, 5 aethiopica, Zantedeschia, 122 affinis, Aloe, 122 Cluytia, 129 Tragia, 130
africana, Dryopteris, 120 Plukenetia, 130 Salvia, 133
africanum, Psilotrichum, 125 Thamnosma, 128 AIZOACEAE, 12s alata, Pentatricha, 134 Albizzia, 126
albogularis, Crithagra, 116 albomaculata, Zantedeschia, 122 Alchemilla, 126 Alepidea, 132
allevata, Hyalochna, 30
Allotalanta, 30 Aloe, 122
AMARANTACEAE, 125 AM ARYLL I D ACE AE, 122 Ammannia, 13 1 Amphilophis, 121 amphizeucta, Lachnostola, 22 amplexicaule, Ecbolium, 133
Anacampsis, 19, 20 ANACARDIACEAE, 130 Anaglypha, 134 Anarsia, 21 Ancylometis, 27 Ancylotrypa, 108, 109 Andropogon, 121 angulatum, Abutilon, 130 angustata, Acalypha, 129 angustifolia, Merremia, 132 Anisotes, 133 anomalus, Georychus, 5 ANONACEAE, 126 antennifera, Bonatea, 123 anthelmintica, Albizzia, 126 Anthericum, 122 Antispila, 35
aphrocyma, Acrocercops, 39
apiata, Mirafra, 117 aponeurus, Hibiscus, 130 Aponogeton, 121 APONOGETONACEAE, 121 Apotactis, 52 appro ximans, Euplectes, 117 aquilina , Pteris, 121 aquilinum, Pteridium, 121 arabica, Psiadia, 134 arabicus, Lotus, 128 Arabis, 126 ARACEAE, 122 ARANEAE, 63, 67 areata, Laspeyresia, 13 arenophilum, Tryphostemma, 13 1 arguta, Blastobasis, 36 Argyrolobium, 127, 128 Argyroploce, n, 12, 50 argyrozona, Antispila, 35 aristata, Chaetacme, 124 Lotononis , 127 Pearsonia, 127 aristatum, Aspidium, 120 Polystichum, 120 Aristotelia, 15, 16
armatus, Spiroctenus, 86, 87 (Text-fig.
7 d)
Arthrosolen, 13 1 artifex, Stasimopus, 95 ASCLEPIADACEAE, 132 asiatica, Chrysochloris, 113, 114 aspera, Eragrostis, 122 Geigeria, 135 asperata, Tinea, 44 aspidioides, Asplenium, 120
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Aspidium, 120 Asplenium, 120 assimilis, Pavetta, 134 asterias, Thesium, 125 asterota, Argyroploce, 12 Astragalus, 128 athamantica, Dryopteris, 120 athamanticum , Nephr odium, 120 athanasioides, Brachymeris, 135 Pentzia , 135
Atherstonei, Pearsonia, 127 Satyrium, 123 Athyrium, 120 atrisecta, Hapsifera, 58 atropurpurea, Pupalia, 125 attenuata, Cephalaria, 134 Lomaria , 120
attenuatum, Blechnum, 120 augur, Rhinolophus, 112 Aulotropha, 32 aurantiaca, Sandersonia, 122 aurantiacus, Gladiolus, 123 aurea, Gymnogramme, 120 Gymnogramme argentea, 120 auriculata, Tripteris, 135 aurita, Blumea, 134 austerodes, Chelaria, 22 australis, Crotalaria petiolaris, 127
Evagrus caffer, 63, 95 (Text-figs.
10 a, b)
Thelechoris, 95, 109 autograpta, Leucoptera, 40 automorpha, Syrmadaula, 26
Autosticha, 26 AVICULARIIDAE, 63, 67 azorella, Muraltia, 129
babaeculus, Bradypterus, 116 Bainesii, Lotononis, 127 Bakeri, Eulophia, 124 Barberton, Crassula perfoliata, 126 Barbertoni, Habenaria, 123 Barbertoniae, Aloe, 122 barratti, Bradypterus, 116 BARY CHELIDAE, 97 BARY CHELINAE, 96 basinuda, Alepidea, 132 Batrachedra, 28 Baurii, Ranunculus, 126 Bellidiastrum, Venedium, 135 henedicta, Ceromitia, 47 Tacazzea apiculata, 132 Benthami, Acacia, 126 Bergia, 13 1
bergiana, Dryopteris, 120 bergianum, Nephrodium , 120 Berkheya, 135 Berkheyopsis, 135 Bersama, 130 Bessia, 86, 88, 107 biaurita, Pteris, 121
bicolor, Habenaria, 123 bifurcum, Solanum, 133 BIGNONIACEAE, 133 biharicus, Idiops, no biloba, Marsilia macrocarpa, 121 binotata, Lecithocera, 24 bipinnatum, Asplenium, 120 bisecta, Eucosma, 10 bivia, Dragmatucha, 25 bivittatus, Diores, 105, 106 (Text-fig. 13 d)
BLASTOBASIDAE, 36, 55 Blastobasis, 36, 55 Blechnum, 120 Blepharis, 133 Blossia, 63, 64 Blumea, 134 Boltoni, Bonatea, 123 Bolusii, Euphorbia, 129 Pleiospora, 127 Bonatea, 123 BORAGINEAE, 132 boryana, Lomaria, 120 Bovinae, in
Bowkeri, Pelargonium, 128 Brachiaria, 122 Brachionopus, 96 Brachmia, 25, 26
brachycephalus, Ceratogyrus, 63, 103;
PI. I, figs, a-c Brachycorythis, 123 br achy cor y this, Platanthera, 123 Brachymeris, 135 brachyphyllus, Gladiolus, 123 brachypterus, Bradypterus, 116 bracteata, Tricalysia, 133 Bradypterus, 116 Brassica, 126
breijeri, Pelmatorycter, 92 Brenthia, 36
brevepedunculata, Pleiospora obovata, 127
brevifolius, Gladiolus varius, 123
breyeri, Pelmatorycter, 63, 91 (Text- fig. 9); PI. II, fig. c Pterinochilus, 63, 102 Breyeri, Warburgia, 60 (Text-fig. 1), 61 (Text-figs. 2 a-g), 13 1 Bridelia, 129
brizantha, Brachiaria, 122 brizanthum, Panicum , 122 Brownleea, 123 Bucculatrix, 42 Buchanani, Dryopteris, 120 Nephrodium, 120 Buchenroedera, 128 Bulbostylus, 122 bullifera, Platyptilia, 7 Bupleurum, 132 burkeanus, Astragalus, 128 Burkei, Thesium, 125
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Cadaba, 126 caerulea, Sutera, 133 caffer, Evagrus, 95, 109 Heligmomerus, 63, 78 caffra, Ximenia, 125 caff rum, Erythroxylon, 128 cajanifolia, Pleiospora, 127 Cajanus, 11 calanthoides, Eulophia, 124 calomelanos, Ceropteris, 121 Pellaea , 121 Calostephane, 135 Camara, Lantana, 133 CAMPANULACEAE, 134 CANELLACEAE, 13 1 canescens, Cineraria, 135 canoargentea, Lasiosiphon, 13 1 capense, Blechnum, 120 Xanthoxylon , 128 capensis, Adiantopsis, 121 Cheilanthes, 121 Cissus, 130 Ctenomeria, 130 Eptesicus, 1 13 Euplectes, 117 Fagara, 128 Fleurya, 124 Hemitelia, 120 Plumbago, 41 Trachypogon polymorphus, 121 caperonioides, Acalypha, 129 capitata, Hembstaedtia, 125 Jacquemontia, 132 capnias, Parectopa, 40 CAPPARIDACEAE, 126 Capparis, 126 cardinata, Cholotis, 28 cardiophora, Disperis, 124 Carduus, 135 carnosa, Huernia, 132 Carposina, 8 CARPOSINIDAE, 8 Carteri, Eretmocera, 35 caryocoma, Argyroploce, 11 CARYOPHYLLACEAE, 125 Cassia, 127 castaneus, Stasimopus, 94 cathartica, Bridelia, 129 catopteron, Nephrodium, 120 caulescens, Dimorphotheca, 135 caulota, Labdia, 27 CAVICORNIA, in cepapi, Paraxerus, 112 Cephalaria, 134 Ceranthes, 33 Cerastium, 125 Ceratogyrus, 63, 103 ceresiiforme, Monocymbium, 121 |
Ceropteris, 121 certa, Oinophila, 57 certificate, Sapheneutis, 45 Ceterach, 120 Chaetachme, 124 Cheilanthes , 121 Chelaria, 21, 22 chilocalyx, Cleome, 126 Chirocompa, 30 Chloropeta, 1 Chloropetella, 1 chlorotoma, Leuronoma, 16 Onebala, 25 Cholotis, 28 chrysocarpus, Rubus rigidis, 126 Chrysochloris, 113 cicutarium, Aspidium, 120 ciliata, Acalypha, 129 ciliolata, Peperomia retusa, 124 Cineraria, 135 cineria, Vernonia, 134 cir cum junc turn, Galeosomavandami, 63, 78 (Text-fig. 4c), 80; PL IV, figs. /, g cirrhocoma, Anacampsis, 20 Cissus, 130 Cistugo, 1 12 citri, Prays, 56 Citrus, 56 civetta, Viverra, 112 Cladophantis, 33 Clarkei, Blepharis, 133 clavigera, Euphorbia, 129 Cleome, 126 Cloeotis, 1 12 Cluytia, 129 Cnephasia, 9 Cnetis, 128 Coccolus, 126 coegensis, Moggridgea, 107 COLEOPHORIDAE, 38 coloratus, Sporobolus pectinatus, 122 combreticola, Viscum, 124 Commiphora, 128 comosa, Alepidea, 132 Hermannia, 13 1 compacta, Depressaria, 31 COMPOSITAE, 134 ccmcinna, Davallia , 120 conclusa, Trichotaphe, 23 concolor, Doryopteris, 121 confixa, Telphusa, 51 conjuncta, Muraltia, 129 CONNARACEAE, 128 Conrathii, Senecio, 135 conservata, Protomacha, 31 consobrina, Pellaea, 121 constrictos, Pterinochilus, 102 ftn. convallata, Myrmecozela, 57 |
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CONVOLVULACEAE, 132 Conyza, 134 Cooperi, Crassula, 126 Ranunculus, 126 COPROMORPHIDAE, 35 Corallocarpus, 134 Corchorus, 130 cordata , Gymnogramme, 120 cordatum, Ceterach, 120 cordifolium, Schizoglossum, 132 Coreopsis, 135 Coriacea, Rhus, 130 coronata, Numida mitrata, 3 coronatum, Galeosoma, 78 (Text-fig. 4c), 81, 82, 83; PL IV, fig. a corroborata, Tortrix, 8 corrugata, Gracilaria, 40 COSMOPTERYGIDAE, 27, 52 costatum, Thesium, 125 Cotyledon, 126 cousinioides, Berkheya, 135 Crabbea, 133
crassispina, Pterinochilus, 100, 102 Crassula, 126
CRASSULACEAE, 119, 126
crataegifolia, Vernonia,, 134
crateraula, Pycnostola, 14
cregoei, Acanthodon, 75
crenata, Dryopteris, 120
crenatum , Nephrodium , 120
crinitum, Galeosoma robertsi, 63, 82;
PI. IV, fig. b crispula, Harveya, 133 Crithagra, 116 Crobylophora, 41 Crocidura, 112 Crossandra, 133 Crotalaria, 127 Croton, 129 CRUCIFERAE, 126 crudeni, Acanthodon, 72, 76, 77 Pelmatorycter, 108 Crypsithyris, 43, 57 crypsixantha, Nepticula, 43 Cryptillas, 116
CTENIZIDAE, 107 ftn., m Ctenolophus, 75, no Ctenomeria, 130 cuculans, Odites, 54 Cucumis, 134 CUCURBITACEAE, 134 culveri , Disa, 124
curvipes, Spiroctenus, 63, 88, 89 (Text- figs. 8 a-c); PI. Ill, figs, d-e cyanea, Crocidura, 112 cyanoscia, Zesticodes, 46 CYATHEACEAE, 120 cymatias, Microschismus, 35 Cymbopogon , 121 CYPERACEAE, 122 Cyphia, 134
Cyphothyris, 32
cyprophanes, Daemonarcha, 27
Cyrtomium, 120 Cystopteris, 120 cytisoides, Thesium, 125
Daemonarcha, 27
Dalbergia, 128 Dalechampia, 130 Damarchodes, 109
damarensis, Numida papillosa, 2, 3
daricella, Crobylophora, 41 darlingi, Ceratogyrus, 103 Rhinolophus, 112 Davalia, 132 Davallia, 120 Davyae, Musa, 123 Davyana, Aloe, 122 Davyi, Fagara, 128 decachrysa, Glyphipteryx, 36 Decadarchis, 43 decurrens, Chirocompa, 30 deltophanes, Porthmologa, 53 densiflora, Dombeya, 13 1 dentata, Pteris, 121
dentatus, Senecio Johannesburgensis, 135 denticulata, Streptocarpus, 133 depauperata, Nidorella, 134 depressa, Selaginella, 121 Depressaria, 31 depressinervia, Acalypha, 129 derogatella, Eretmocera, 35 deserti, Sanseviera, 122 desipiens, Eucosma, 10 Desmodium, 128 diagonalis, Digitaria, 12 1 Dianthus, 125 dichiloides, Lotononis, 127 Dichomeris, 23 Dichondra, 132 dichotoma, Gleichenia, 120 dichotomum, Viscum, 124 Dichrocephala, 134 Dicliptera, 133 Digitaria, 121 Dimorphotheca, 135 Dinteri, Crotalaria squarrosa, 127 Ficus, 124 Diocosma, 33 dioecus, Scirpus, 122 Diores, 63, 105 Dioscorea, 123 DIOSCOREACEAE, 123 diplopsamma, Sapheneutis, 45 DIPLOTHELEAE, 107 ftn. DIPLURIDAE, 107 ftn.
DIPSACEAE, 134 Disa, 124
discolor, Stephania, 126 discoporus, Sporobolus, 122 Disperis, 124
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Disperma, 133
dissectus, Cucumis hirsutus, 134 Dissotis, 13 1 distans, Crotalaria, 127 divaricata, Calostephane, 135 Raphionacme, 132 diversifolius, Hibiscus, 130 dolichocephalus, Ceratogyrus, 63, 104; PI. I, fig. d\ PL II, fig. a Dombeya, 13 1
dorsistrigata, Eretmocera, 35 Doryopteris, 121 Dragmatucha, 24, 25 drastica, Eucosma, 49 dregeana, Dioscorea, 123 Thunbergia, 133 Vernonia, 134 dregeanum, Cerastium, 125 Desmodium, 128 dreyeri, Stasimopus, 93 drimylota, Apotactis, 52 dryadopa, Brachmia, 25 Dryodromas, 117 Dryopteris, 120 dubia, Leptopelma, 97 dura, Pellaea, 121 Dyschoriste, 133
Ecbolium, 133
Eclipta, 135
edouardi, Guttera, 3
effulgens, Limnoecia, 27
effusum , Sorghum halepense , 121
egens, Blastobasis, 37
Elachista, 55, 56
ELACHISTIDAE, 55
elaeocoma, Anacampsis, 19
Elaeophorbia, 129
Elaphoglossum, 121
ELATINACEAE, 13 1
elatus, Gladiolus varius, 123
elongata, Dryopteris, 120
elongatum , Nephrodium Filix-Mas , 120
elongatus, Felicia, 134
embolaea, Hemimene, 51
empetroides, Muraltia, 129
encharacta, Argyroploce, 50
enormis, Euphorbia, 129
eodryas, Acompsia, 20
eotrocha, Diocosma, 33
epapposum, Helichrysum, 134
EPERMENIADAE, 56
Ephippias, n
epicoena, Proterochyta, 56
epicyparissias, Euphorbia, 129
Epimys, 112
Epiphractis, 53
Epithectis, 16
Eptesicus, 1 13
Eragrostis, 122
erebaula, Pycnodytis, 15
erecta, Eclipta, 135 erectum, Asplenium, 120 Eretmocera, 35 Eriochrysis, 121 eriophorum, Helichrysum, 134 Erlangea, 134 ermelensis, Disperis, 124 Erotis, 33
erythropa, Argyroploce, 11
Erythrorrhizum, Anthericum, 122
ERYTHROXYLACEAE, 128
Erythroxylon, 128
Ethelae, Kaempferia, 123
Ethmia, 37
Eucosma, 9, 48
EUCOSMIDAE, 9, 48, 51
Eucryptogona, 45
Eugenia, 13 1
Eulalia, 121
Eulophia, 124
Euphorbia, 129
EUPHORBIACEAE, 119, 129 Euplectes, 117
euplocamis, Tinea, 44 euryacta, Lysitona, 57 euryzancla, Oxymachaeris, 43 Euxanthis, 8 Evagrus, 63, 95, 109 Evansii, Euphorbia, 129 excoriata, Laspeyresia, 13 exhilarata, Argyroploce, 50 exoenota, Gelechia, 52 explicata, Digitaria monodactyla, 121 exsanguis, Carposina, 8 exsulata, Anacampsis, 20 extensa, Blastobasis, 55
Fagara, 128
falcatum, Aspidium, 120 Cyrtomium, 120
Farm Goede Hoop, Geranium incanum, 128
fecunda, Gelechia, 17
Felicia, 134 ferox, Acacia, 127 ferulata, Parapsectris, 17
ficifolia, Pueraria, 128 Rhynchosia, 128 Ficus, 124
filamentosa, Crassula, 126 filifolia, Lotononis, 127 Pearsonia, 127 filiformisy Rhus, 130 fiscinata, Brachmia, 26 flabellatay Pteris, 121 FLACOURTIACEAE, 13 1 flaveolum, Acanthodon, 77 and ftn., 107 flavisecta, Cnephasia, 9 flavivittus, Heliosciurus, 112 flavopunctatus, Hermachastes, 107 Fleurya, 124
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floccosum, Helichrysum, 134 floribunda, Tricalysia, 133 floribundum, Thesium, 125 Fluggea, 129 foliosa, Habenaria, 123 Forskalii, Themeda, 121 fossoria, Bessia, 86 fragilis, Cissus, 130 Cystopteris, 120 fulvicapilla, Dryodromas, 117 Fumaria, 126
fumarioides, Hymenophyllum, 120 Fumea, 45, 59 furcatum, Asplenium, 120 fuscipennis, Eretmocera, 35
Galeosoma, 63, 78
Galpini, Acalypha caperonioides, 129 Euphorbia, 129 Habenaria, 123 Galpinii, Ficus, 124 Loranthus, 124 garcianus, Loranthus, 124 Gardenia, 133 Geigeria, 135 Gelechia, 17, 18, 52 GELECHIADAE, 13, 51 geoffroyi, Rhinolophus, 112 geomicta, Phthorimaea, 18 Georychus, 5 GERANIACEAE, 128 geraniaefolis , Pellaea , 121 Geranium, 128 Gerbera, 135 Gerdana, 32
Gerrardi, Schizochilus, 123 GESNERACEAE, 133 Gettleffii, Stapelia, 132 Giesekia, 125 glabra, Amphilophis, 121 Vernonia, 134 glabrata, Acalypha, 130 Leucas, 133
glabrescens, Nesaea sagittifolia, 13 1 glabricarpellata, Knowltonia, 125 glabriflorus , Loranthus, 124 Gladiolus, 123 glandifera, Ethmia, 37 glandulifera, Wormskioldia, 13 1 glauca, Adenia, 13 1 glaucella, Euphorbia, 129 Gleichenia, 120 GLEICHENIACEAE, 120 globuligemma, Aloe, 122 glomeratum, Limeum, 125 glyphicodes, Eucosma, 10 GLYPHIPTERYGIDAE, 36, 55 Glyphipteryx, 36 Gnidia, 13 1
godfreyi, Diores, 63, 105, 106 (Text-
figs. 13 a-c)
goetzeanum, Thesium, 125 gongylodes, Dryopteris, 120 Gorgyrella , 75, no, in Goudotii, Pellaea, 121 Gracilaria, 40 GRACILARIADAE, 39 gracilarioides, Thesium, 125 gracile, Asplenium lunulatum, 120 gracilior Pleiospora, 127 gracilipes, Acanthodon, 63, 68, 75 gracilirostris, Lusciniola, 116 gracilis, Juncus, 122 gracillima, Rhus, 130 Wahlenbergia, 134 gracillimus, Podocarpus, 121 grahami, Epimys namaquensis, 112 GRAMINEAE, 121 grandiflora, Tavaresia Barklyi, 132 grandis, Mungos, 112 grantiana, Crotalaria, 127 gratiosa, Simaethis, 55 gratissimus , Croton, 129 Grewia, 130
griquensium, Scirpus, 122 grisea, Hermannia, 13 1 grosseserrata, Hermannia, 13 1 Gubouga, Croton, 129 Gueinzii, Euphorbia, 129 Guilleminea, 125 guineense, Erythrophloem, 127 guineensis, Sanseviera, 122 gurneyi, Proctopus nigricollis, 118 Guttera, 3 Gymnogramma, 38 Gymnogramme, 120, 121 gypsophiloides, Thesium, 125
haagneri, Platymops, 5
Habenaria, 123
HALORHAGIDACEAE, 132
hamatum, Mesembrianthemum, 125
Hapsifera, 46, 58
Harpactirella, 96, 97
harpalea, Opogona, 56
Harveya, 133
harveyana, Vitex, 133
hastata, Pellaea, 121
Heeria, 130
Helichrysum, 134
Heligmomerus, 63, 78
HELIODINIDAE, 35
Heliosciurus, 112
Heliotropium, 132
HELIOZELIDAE, 35
helminthias, Schiffermuelleria, 29
Hemimene, 51
Hemitelia, 120
hemizona, Leucoptera, 41
hepburni, Acanthodon, 63, 73, 77
Hermacha, 109
Hermachastes, 107
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Hermannia, 13 1 Hermbstaedtia, 125 Hesperarcha, 38 heteracantha, Acacia, 127 Hexalobus, 126 Hibiscus, 130 Hippocratea, 130 HIPPOCRATEACEAE, 130 hirsuta, Cluytia, 129 hirsutissima, Lotononis calycina, 127 hirsutum, Galeosoma, 79, 82 Thesium, 125
hirsutus, Acanthodon, 63, 69, 75
Corchorus, 130 Gnidia fastigata, 13 1 hirta, Euphorbia, 129 Hyparrhenia, 121 Mollugo, 125 Nidorella, 134 hirtus, Cymbopogon, 121 hispida, Polygala, 129 hoepfnerianus, Lasiosiphon, 13 1 holosericea, Cassia, 127 Pleiospora, 127 holosticta, Ceromitia, 59 Holothrix, 123
homogramma, Onebala, 25
Homostola, 90, 108 horizontalis, Digitaria, 121 horrida, Acacia, 126
hortulana, Trichotaphe, 23 hostilis, Polyhymno, 19
Huernia, 132 humilior, Lotononis, 127 Hyalochna, 30 HYDROCHARITACEAE, 121 Hygrophila, 133
HYMENOPHYLLACEAE, 120 Hymenophyllum, 120 Hyparrhenia, 121 hypericifolia, Euphorbia, 129 Hypolepis, 121 hypoleuca, Sanguisorba, 126 HYPONOMEUTIDAE, 37, 56 hysterota, Platybathra, 38
idiocoma, Opostega, 42
Idioglossa, 56 IDIOPEAE, hi Idiops, no, hi Idiothele, 63 , 96 illecebrioides, Guilleminea, 125 illuminata, Pycnostola, 15 imbertis, Sisyranthus, 132 inaemoena, Eulophia, 124 inaequalis, Crassula, 126 Dryopteris, 120 inaequilatera, Euphorbia, 129 incana, Rhus, 130 incanum, Geranium, 128 Polypodium , 121
incisifolia, Tragia, 130 inclusus, Gladiolus, 123 incolumis, Odites? 54 incurva, Habenaria, 123 Indigofera, 128 ingens, Euphorbia, 129 Ficus, 124 inscita, Eucosma, 9 insculpta, Amphilophis, 121 insolita, Crypsithyris, 57 intorta, Polyhymno, 19 involucrata , Euphorbia, 129 iocharis, Trachydora, 28 Ipomoea, 132 IRIDACEAE, 123 irroratus, Otomys, 115 Isachne, Brachiaria, 122 Panicum , 122 isatideus, Senecio, 135 Ischnothele, 96
Jacobsziae, Alepidea, 132 Jacquemontia, 132 Jasminum, 132 Jatropha, 129 Jenkinsii, Alepidea, 132 JUNCACEAE, 122 Juncus, 122
junodi, Pterinochilus, 102 ftn.
Junodiana, Brachycorythis, 123 Junodii, Kalanchoe, 126 Thesium, 125
Kaempferia, 123 kalachariensis, Loranthus, 124 Kalanchoe, 126 Karroo, Acacia, 126 karschi, Ischnothele, 96 kentanicus, Acanthodon, 68, 69 Kirkii, Dalechampia, 130 Loranthus, 124 Kniphofia, 122 Knowltonia, 125 komatiensis, Rhynchosia, 128 kraussiana , Acacia arabica, 126 Kraussiana, Euphorbia, 129 kraussianus , Loranthus, 124
Labdia, 27, 52 labialis, Tetramnus, 128 LAB I AT AE, 133 Lachnostola, 22 lacunosa, Epithectis, 16 laeta, Disa, 124 Lagerosiphon, 121 laminatus, Otomys, 114, 115 laminicornis, Blossia, 63, 65, 66 (Text- figs. 2 a-c)
lamprostola, Monopis, 43
lanceolata, Crotalaria, 127 Gymnogramme , 121
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lanceolata, Lotononis, 127 Lantana, 133
lanuginosa, Dryopteris, 120
Lasiosiphon, 13 1
Lasiospermum, 135
Laspeyresia, 12, 51
latebracteolata, Pleiospora, 127
laticosta, Blossia, 63, 64 (Text-figs.
1 a-c)
latifolia, Acalypha glabrata, 130 Anaglypha, 134 Ceropegia multiflora, 132 Dichrocephala, 134
latifolium, Elaphoglossum conforme, 121
latipetala, Eulophia, 124
latissimifolius, Senecio, 135
laxa, Cluytia, 129
Lecithocera, 34
ledereriella, Batrachedra, 28
Leendertziae, Loranthus olaefolius, 124
LEGUMINOSAE, 11, 119, 126
Leptopelma, 97
Lessertia, 128
lesueuri, Cistugo, 112
Leucas, 133
leucatoma, Brenthia, 36
Leucoptera, 40 leucoptera, Crithagra, 116 Leuronoma, 16 LILIACEAE, 122 Limeum, 125 Limnoecia, 27 linearis, Gleichenia, 120 linoides, Gnidia, 13 1 Lissochilus, 124 lividicollis, Guttera, 3 lobatum, Asplenium erectum , 120 lobostola, Eucosma, 49 Lomaria , 120
lomatophyllus, Juncus, 122 londinensis, Spiroctenus, 63, 86, 87
(Text-figs. 7 a-b), 107 longeciliata, Alepidea, 132 longibracteata, Aloe, 122 longiflora, Digitaria, 121 Thorncroftia, 133 longifolia, Acalypha punctata, 130 longifolium, Argyrolobium, 127 Lopholaena, 135 LORANTHACEAE, 119, 124 Loranthus, 124 Lotononis, 119, 127 Lotus, 128
loxogramme, Polypodium, 121 loxosaris, Chelaria, 21 luctuosum, Polystichum, 120 lugardae, Commiphora, 128 Monadenium, 129 Lugardii, Sesamothamnus, 133 lunariifolius, Hibiscus, 130 lunifera, Eretmocera, 35
lunulatum, Asplenium, 120 Lusciniola, 116 lutea, Felicia, 134 luticoma, Fumea, 59 lydenbergensis, Monodenia, 124 LYONETIADAE, 40, 42, 56 lyrata, Cineraria, 135 Lysitona, 57 LYTHRACEAE, 13 1
MacLeaii, Aspidium, 120 Polystichum, 120 macowanii, Hermannia, 13 1 macrobela, Labdia, 52 macrochilus, Pachycarpus, 132 macrophylla, Oldenlandia, 133 Pleiospora, 127 macrophyllus, Senecio, 135 macropoda, Tephrosia, 128 macrorhynchus, Euplectes capensis,
117
Maerua, 126
magaliesmontanus, Gladiolus, 123 magalismontana , Rhus, 130 magalismontanum, Thesium, 125 magna, Harpactirella, 97 magnusiana, Ipomoea, 132 major, Lagerosiphon muscoides, 121 mallotocarpa, Ficus, 124 MALVACEAE, 130 marginata, Lotononis , 127 Pearsonia, 127 marginatus, Gladiolus, 123 maritimus, Mungos pulverulentus,
114
Markhamia, 133
Marleyi, Spiroctenus, 63, 83 (Text-
fig- 5)
Marlothii, Hymenophyllum, 120 Lotononis, 127 marshalli, Ceratogyrus, 104 Marshallii, Aloe, 122 Marsilia, 121 MARSILIACEAE, 121 Matricaria, 135 mauritiana, Dryopteris, 120 maxillaris, Crotalaria, 127 melanaula, Eucosma, 11 melanogastra, Cholotis, 28 melanoleuca, Zantedeschia, 122 melanostola, Phrixosceles, 39 melanoxylon, Dalbergia, 128 Melasina, 45
MELASTOMACEAE, 13 1 melckorum, Eptesicus, 113 Melhania, 13 1 MELIACEAE, 128 MELIANTHACEAE, 130 melitardis, Opostega, 41 Melolobium, 127 Melothria, 134
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MENISPERMACEAE, 126 merista, Pycnostola, 14 Merremia, 132 Mesembrianthemum, 125 mesochlora, Talaeporia, 44 mespilifolia, Vernonia, 134 METACHANDIDAE, 27 metapyrrha, Tortrix, 8 microcarpa, Chaetachme, 124 Fluggea, 129 Microcolona, 53 Microlepia, 120
MICROLEPIDOPTERA, 7, 48 micropetalus, Dianthus, 125 microps, Acanthodon, 69, 75, 111 Microschismus, 35 MIGIDAE, 107 ftn. miniata, Eretmocera, 35 minor, Acanthodon schreineri, 76, 1 1 1 Bessia, 86, 88 Chrysochloris, 113 Spiroctenus, 87 (Text-fig. 7 c) Stasimopus, 93 minus, Thalictrum, 126 minuscula, Decadarchis, 43 Mirafra, 117
mitrata, Numida mitrata, 3 Moggridgea, 107 molle , Nephr odium, 120 mollis, Bridelia, 129 Dryopteris, 120 Mollugo, 125 Monactinocephalus, 134 Monadenium, 129 Monechma, 133 Monocymbium, 121 Monodenia, 124 Monopis, 43
montana, Brachymeris, 135 montanum, Trichomanes, 120 Monteiroi, Crotalaria, 127 monticola, Acanthodon, 67, 76 Cluytia, 129
monticoloides, Acanthodon, 63, 67, 76
Moorei, Loranthus, 124 MORACEAE, 124
mossambicum, Galeosoma, 63, 78
(Text-figs. 4 a-b)
mossambicus, Acanthodon, 63, 72, 73,
76
Mucuna, 128
Muddii, Argyrolobium, 127 multiflora, Adenia, 13 1 Lotononis, 127 Lotononis laxa, 127 Matricaria, 135 Pearsonia, 127 Wahlenbergia, 134 Mundtii, Bupleurum, 132 Fumaria, 126 Scolopia, 13 1
Mungos, 1 12, 1 14 munroanum, Saccharum , 121 Muraltia, 129
muricata, Sanguisorba, 126 Musa, 123 MUSACEAE, 123 Myotis, 1 12 myriacantha, Aloe, 122 Myrmecozela, 57 MYRTACEAE, 13 1
namaquensis, Blossia, 65 Loranthus, 124 natalense, Aponogeton, 121 Thesium, 125 natalensis, Cadaba, 126 Chloropeta, 2 Cnetis, 128 Euphorbia, 129 Georychus, 6 Gerbera, 135 Spermacoce, 134 Toddalia, 128 Tragia, 130 Ursinia, 135 natalitia, Crotalaria, 127 natalitium, Desmodium, 128 natans (obovata), Crassula, 126 Nationae, Thesium, 125 Nebolusia, 123 Nelsoni, Brownleea, 123 Disa, 124 Eulophia, 124 Nelsonii, Disperis, 124 neopolycnemoides, Euphorbia, 129 neoxesta, Depressaria, 31 Nephr odium, 120 Nepticula, 43 NEPTICULIDAE, 43 neritis, Phyciodyta, 58 Nesaea, 13 1 Nidorella, 134
nigellaefolia, Matricaria, 135 nigellus, Stasimopus, 63, 93 nigra, Hermacha, 109 Moggridgea, 107 nigrispersa, Scythris, 37 nigrofulvus, Idiothele, 63, 98, 100 (Text- fig. 11), 101 (Text-fig. 12 a), 102; PI.
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Pterinochilus, 98 nigropedata, Brachiaria, 122 nigropedatum, Panicum, 122 nigropilosus, Acanthodon, 63, 70, 71 (Text-figs. 3 a-b), 72, 77 nilotica, Turraea, 128 nimbifera, Symphoristis, 55 niveocervina, Oxymachaeris, 43 nodiflorum, Solanum, 133 Nothris, 22
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nubica, Tephrosia, 128 nubigenum, Mesembrianthemum, 125 nudiuscula, Roripa, 126 nudus, Pelmatorycter, 91, 9a Numida, 2 Nyctinomus, 4
obelacma, Leucoptera, 41
obovata, Crassula natans, 126 Pleiospora, 127 obscurum, Panicum, 121 obsepta, Dragmatucha, 24 obtusifolia, Hippocratea, 130 Turraea, 128
ochraula, Pycnostola, 14
ochreolum, Acanthodon, 76 ochrozona, Orneodes, 35
octophora, Brachmia, 25
Odina, 130 Odites, 54
OECOPHORIDAE, 29, 53 Oinophila, 57 OLACACEAE, 125 olaefolius, Loranthus, 124 Oldenlandia, 133 OLEACEAE, 132 ominosa, Fumea, 45 Ommannei, Senecio, 135 Onebala, 25
onychotis, Crobylophora, 41 Opogona, 56 Opostega, 41 Opsigenes, 30 opsonoma, Eucosma, 48 orangana, Habenaria, 123 ORCHIDACEAE, 123 Orneodes, 34, 55 ORNEODIDAE, 34, 55 orthobathra, Depressaria, 31 Otomys, 1 14 ovalifolia, Gnidia, 13 1 ovata, Brachycorythis, 123 Plantanthera, 123 Oxymachaeris, 42 oxymoris, Oinophila, 57 oxyriaefolius, Senecio, 135
Pachycarpus, 132 pachydesma, Cnephasia, 9 pachypoda, Brassica, 126 Pachystigma, 134 palki, Georychus, 5 pallida, Eriochrysis, 121 pallidum, Galeosoma, 79 palliolatum, Thesium, 125 palmata, Ipomoea, 132 Paltodora, 13 Pancratium, 122 panduraefolius, Senecio, 135 paniculata, Phylica, 130 Pleiospora, 127
paniculatus, Monactinocephalus, 134 Panicum, 121, 122 pantomima, Microcolona, 53 PAPAVERACEAE, 126 papillosa, Eulophia, 124 Numida, 2, 3 paracma, Polyhymno, 19 Parapsectris, 17 parastacta, Opsigenes, 30 Paraxerus, 112 pardalina, Paromostola, 84 Parectopa, 39 Paromostola, 84
parviflora, Davalia transvaalensis, 132 parvus, Pelmatorycter, 108 PASSIFLORACEAE, 13 1 patersonae, Stasimopus, 95 Pavetta, 134 Pearsonia, 119, 127 pectinata, Crassula, 126 Schizaea, 120 pectiniformis, Pellaea, 121 pectinipalpis, Acanthodon, 73, 76 PEDALIACEAE, 133 pedicata, Schiffermuelleria, 29 peduncularis , Fleurya, 124 pedunculata, Crabbea, 133 Giesekia pharnaceoides, 125 Pegolettia, 134 Pelargonium, 128 Pellaea, 121
Pelmatorycter, 63, 91, 108, 109 pendens, Phthorimaea, 18 Pennisetum, 122 pentadecandra, Giesekia, 125 pentandra, Pharnaceum, 125 pentasticta, Aulotropha, 32 Pentatricha, 134 pentrandrum, Trianthema, 125 Pentzia , 135 Peperomia, 124 peploides, Crassula, 126 percivali, Cloeotis, 112 perfoliata, Arabis, 126 pericentra, Hesperarcha, 38 personatus, Spiroctenus, 88, 90 Petersii, Ficus, 124 petiolatum, Elaphoglossum, 121 petricola, Aloe, 122 petrophilus, Platymops, 4, 5 Phaenohoffmannia, 127 phaeocephala, Tineola, 44 PHALONIADAE, 8 Pharnaceum, 125 Phaseolus, 11 photaula, Orneodes, 55 Photodotis, 15 Phrixosceles, 39 Phthorimaea, 18, 19 Phyciodyta, 58 Phylica, 130
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planiscutatum, Galeosoma, 63, 78, 79
(Text-fig. 4 d), 80 Platanthera , 123 Platybathra, 38 Platymops, 4
platyneuron, Asplenium, 120 Platyptilia, 7 Plectranthus, 133 Pleiospora, 127 plicatus, Pachycarpus, 132 Plukenetia, 130 Plumbago, 41
plumosa, Eragrostis tenella, 122 plumosus, Trachypogon, 121
pluridentatum, Idiothele, 63, 101
(Text-fig. 12 b)
pluripunctatum, Galeosoma, 63, 81;
PL IV, fig. d
podalyriaefolia, Pearsonia, 127 Podocarpus, 121 polita, Davalia, 132 Pollinia, 121
polyacantha, Berkheya, 135 polycephalus, Arthrosolen, 13 1 Polychrosis, 11 Polygala, 129 POLYGALACEAE, 129 Polyhymno, 19 polyphylla, Habenaria, 123 polypodantha, Habenaria, 123 POLYPODIACEAE, 120 polypodioides, Polypodium, 121 Polypodium, 120, 121 polystachya, Lessertia, 128 Lessertia perennans, 128 polystacta, Scardia, 47 Polystichum, 120 Porthmologa, 53 praecipua, Bucculatrix, 42 praemorsum, Asplenium, 120 praestricta, Parectopa, 39 Prays, 56
pretoriensis, Aloe, 122 Gladiolus, 123 primulina, Vernonia, 134 princeps, Dissotis, 13 1 Proceleustis, 54
Proctopus, 1 18 prolifera, Dryopteris, 120 proliferumy Polypodium , 120 Promalactis, 29 propinqua, Pearsonia, 127 propitia, Argyroploce, 12 prostrata, Melhania, 13 1 Proterochyta, 56 Protomacha, 31
pseudoglandulifera, Jatropha, 129
Psiadia, 134
Psilotrichum, 125
Psoralea, 128
Pteridium, 121
Pterinochilus, 63, 97, 98, 100, 102, 104 Pteris, 121
pteroides, Pellaea, 121 PTEROPHORIDAE, 7 ptychospila, Symphoristis, 55, 56
pubescens, Brachycorythis, 123 pubiflorum, Schizoglossum robustum, 132
Pueraria, 128 pulcherrima, Heeria, 130 pulchra, Disa, 124 Lotononis, 127 pulverulentus, Mungos, 114 punctata, Acalypha, 130 Sesbania, 128
punctatus, Andropogon inter medius, 121 Spiroctenus, 90 punctulatum, Blechnum, 120 pungens, Aspidium aculeatum, 120 Polystichum, 120 Pupalia, 125
purcelli, Damarchodes, 109 purpurascens, Ischaemum, 121 purpureo-auratus, Gladiolus, 123 purpureo-sericeum, Sorghum, 121 purpureo-sericeus, Andropogon , 121 pusilla, Eugenia, 13 1 pusillumy Trichomanes, 120 pycnocephalus, Carduus, 135 Pycnodytis, 15 Pycnostola, 13 pygmaea, Pachystigma, 134 Vangueria, 134
pyramidota, Acrocercops, 39
quadriaurita , Pteris, 121 quadripinnata, Pellaea, 121 quinquenervis, Loranthus, 124 quinquepartita,Trochomeria Hookeri, 134
racemosa, Gymnogramma, 38
radiatum, Lasiospermum, 135 Randii, Vernonia, 134 RANUNCULACEAE, 125 Ranunculus, 126 Raphanocarpus, 134 Raphionacme, 132
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rarum , Hymenophyllum, 120 rasum, Thesium impeditum, 125 Reckii, Holothrix, 123 Recurvaria, 20 regularis, Brachiaria, 122 Rehmanni, Eulophia, 124 Habenaria, 123 Poly gala, 129 Schizochilus, 123 rehmanniana, Acacia, 127 Rehmannii, Berkheyopsis, 135 Hygrophila 133 Lissochilus, 124 reniforme, Pelargonium, 128 repens, Dichondra, 132 Serpicula, 132 resedoides, Thesium, 125 resiniflua, Gardenia, 133 resonans, Ceromitia, 47 reticens, Stenoma, 34 revoluta, Gelechia, 17 RHAMNACEAE, 130 Rhinacanthus, 133 Rhinolophus, 112 rhomboideus, Senecio, 135 Rhus, 130 Rhynchosia, 128 rhytidophylla, Grewia, 130 rigens, Polygala, 129 rigida, Maerua, 126 rigidis, Rubus, 126
robertsi, Galeosoma, 82; PL IV, fig. b Rogersiae, Anisotes, 133 Rogersii, Acalypha punctata, 130 Cyphia, 134 Dyschoriste, 133 Lotononis, 127 Pearsonia, 127 Phyllanthus, 130 Pueraria, 128 Tragia, 130 Roripa, 126 ROSACEAE, 126 rostrata , Melhania, 13 1 rotundifolia, Dombeya, 13 1 RUBIACEAE, 133 rubromarginatus, Loranthus, 124 Rubus, 126 ruddi, Mungos, 114 Rudolphi, Vitex mooiensis, 133 rufa, Hyparrhenia, 121 rufescens, Indigofera, 128 rufus, Cymbopogon , 121 rugosella, Hapsifera, 59 Ruprechtii, Cymbopogon, 121 Hyparrhenia, 121 RUTACEAE, 128 rutaefolium, Asplenium, 120
Saccharum, 121
salicoma, Melasina, 45
salsuginosa, Ammannia, 13 1 Salvia, 133 Sandersonia, 122 sanguinea, Euphorbia, 129 Sanguisorba, 126 Sanseviera, 122 SANTALACEAE, 125 Sapheneutis, 45 sarmentosa, Kniphofia, 122 Satyrium, 123 Sauromys, 5
saxicola, Schistostephium, 135 scaberrimus, Corrallocarpus sphaero- carpus, 134 Scabiosa, 134
scabiosoides, Thelesperma, 135 scalmotoma, Promalactis, 29 scandicinum, Athyrium, 120 Scardia, 47 Schiffermuelleria, 29 schinziana, Ficus, 124 Schinzii, Acalypha, 129 Andropogon, 121 Crotalaria, 127 Crotalaria pilulicarpa, 127 Schistostephium, 135 Schizachyrium, 121 Schizaea, 120 SCHIZAEACEAE, 120 Schizochilus, 123 Schizoglossum, 132 Schlechteri, Adenia, 13 1 Crotalaria spinosa, 127 Vernonia, 134
Schlechteriana, Brachycorythis, 123 schonlandi, Pterinochilus, 97 Stasimopus, 93, 94, 95 schreineri, Acanthodon, 111 Galeosoma, 81; PI. IV, fig. c Scirpus, 122 Sclerophricta, 46 Scolopia, 13 1
SCROPHULARIACEAE, 133 SCYTHRIDAE, 37 Scythris, 37
seabrae, Cistugo, 112, 113 secularis, Eucryptogona, 45 secunda, Rhynchosia, 128 segetalis, Acalypha, 130 segmentata, Lopholaena, 135 Segregara, m Selaginella, 121 SELAGINELLACEAE, 121 semiberbe, Schizachyrium, 121 semiberbis, Andropogon hirtiflorus, 121 semnophanes, Gracilaria, 40 Senecio, 135
senegalensis, Hexalobus, 126 Pegolettia, 134 senensis, Acalypha, 130 sericea, Eulalia, 121
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sericea, Lessertia perennans, 128 sericocephala, Arthrosolen, 13 1 sericoflora, Lotononis, 127 Serpicula, 132 serrata, Brachiaria, 122 Worms kioldia, 13 1 serratum, Panicum, 122 Sesamothamnus, 133 Sesamum, 133 Sesbania, 128 sessiliflora, Aloe, 122 sessiliflorus, Anisotes, 133 sessilifolia, Lotononis , 127 Pearsonia, 127 seticoxa, Moggridgea, 107 sexangularis, Kalanchoe, 126 silberbauer, Dryodromas fulvicapilla, 1 17
silberbaueri, Otomys, 114
silvatica, Dryopteris, 120
Simaethis, 55
Simii, Aloe, 122
similis, Lasiosiphon, 13 1
sinuato-dentata, Ipomoea bathycolpos,
132
Sisyranthus, 132 Sisyroxena, 35 SOLANACEAE, 133 Solanum, 133 SOLIFUGAE, 63, 64 solitudinis, Lotononis, 127 Sonderi, Tragia, 130 Sorghum, 121 sparsisora, Hypolepis, 121 spartifoliella, Leucoptera, 41 spartioides, Crotalaria, 127 Thesium, 125 speciosa, Gerbera, 135 speluncae, Davallia, 120 Microlepia, 120 Spermacoce, 134
sphaerocarpus, Corrallocarpus, 134 Sphenandra, 133
spheroideum, Galeosoma coronatum,
63, 82; PI. IV, fig. <z spicata, Anarsia, 21 spilodoma, Photodotis, 15 spinipalpis, Spiroctenus 63, 83, 84, 85
(Text-figs. 6 a-b)\ PI. Ill, fig. b spinipes, Stasimopus, 93, 94 spiricola, Acanthodon, 73, 74, 77^ 111 Spiroctenus, 63, 83, 107, 108, 109 spissa, Crypsithyris, 43 splendens, Asplenium cuneatum, 120 sponditis, Argyroploce, 50 Sporobolus, 122 stagninum, Panicum, 122 Stapelia, 132 Stasimopus, 63, 93, 108 staterias, Crobylophora, 41 stenantha, Eulophia, 124
steneopterum, Helichrysum, 134 Stenoma, 34 stenophylla, Adenia, 13 1 Stephania, 126 Steppia, Coreopsis, 135 Sterculia, 13 1 STERCULIACEAE, 13 1 Stewartiae, Eulophia, 124 Stewartii, Pearsonia multiflora, 127 stipella, Aristotelia, 15 stipularis, Bridelia, 129 Streptocarpus, 133 Streptothyris, 32 stricta, Indigofera, 128 strictus, Schizochilus, 123 stromatias, Dichomeris, 23 suahelica, Chloropetella, 1 subacaulis, Crossandra, 133 subcoriaceus, Senecio, 135 subful vescens, Anarsia, 21 subgratissimus, Croton, 129 subhastatus, Corrallocarpus sphaerocar- pus, 134
subintegrifolia, Trochomeria pectinata, 134
subulata, Crassula, 126 subulifolium, Panicum, 122 suffuticosa, Bergia, 13 1 suprafoliata, Aloe, 122 surattensis, Hibiscus, 130 Sutera, 133
swaziensis, Lotononis, 127 Pearsonia, 127 sylvaticus, Croton, 129
symonsi, Guttera edouardi, 3 Symphoristis, 55
syncentra, Sisyroxena, 35
Syrmadbula, 26
tabulare, Blechnum, 120 Tacazzea, 132 Talaeporia, 44
tanyacta, Streptothyris, 32
Tavaresia, 132 TAXACEAE, 121 Telphusa, 16, 51 Tephrosia, 128 Teramnus, 128 ternatus, Hibiscus, 130 tesserata, Orneodes, 34 tetraleuca, Gelechia, 18 tetraptera, Sesbania, 128 thalameuta, Eucosma, 49 Thalictrum, 126 Thamnosma, 128 theciferum, Asplenium, 120 Thelechoris, 95, 96, 109 Thelesperma, 135 thelypteris, Dryopteris, 120 Nephrodium, 120 thematica, Eucosma, 48
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Tirucalli, Euphorbia, 129 Toddalia, 128
tomentosa, Kalanchoe glandulosa, 126
tookei, Pelmatorycter, 63, 92
TORTRICIDAE, 8
Tortrix, 8
Trachydora, 28
Trachypogon, 121
Tragia, 130
transvaalense, Disperma, 133 Jasminum, 132 Trianthema, 25
transvaalensis, Acanthodon, 111 Bersama, 130 Blepharis, 133 Bradypterus, 116 Capparis, 126 Crassula, 126 Davalia parviflora, 132 Diores, 106 Euphorbia, 129 Huernia, 132 Lissochilus, 124 Lotononis, 127 Lotononis Gerrardi, 127 Loranthus kraussianus, 124 Numida papillosa, 2, 3 Satyrium, 123 Scabiosa, 134 Schizochilus, 123 triandra, Themeda, 121 triangulifer, Diores, 106 Trianthema, 125 Tribulus, 128 Tricalysia, 133 trichadenia, Euphorbia, 129 trichobasis, Bulbostylis, 122 tricholaenoides, Digitaria, 121 Trichomanes, 120 Trichotaphe, 15, 23 tricolor, Myotis, 112
tridens, Corchorus, 130 triflorum, Thesium, 125 trigyna, Cotyledon, 126 Trimeria, 13 1 trinerve, Satyrium, 123 trinervis, Trimeria, 13 1 triphaca, Sterculia, 13 1 Tripteris, 135
triumphalis, Idioglossa, 56
Trochomeria, 134 truncata, Euphorbia, 129 Tryphostemma, 13 1 tunbridgense, Hymenophyllum, 120
turgida, Trichotaphe, 24
TURNERACEAE, 13 1 Turraea, 128
typhoideum, Pennisetum, 122 typhurum, Panicum, 122 typicum, Galeosoma coronatum, 82 typicus, Galeosoma robertsi, 82 tyreuta, Sclerophricta, 46 Tysoni, Brachycorythis, 123 Habenaria, 123 Habenaria dregeana, 123 Neobolusia, 123
tysoni, Stasimopus, 63, 93, 95
ugandensis, Warburgia, 60, 62 ULMACEAE, 124 UMBELLIFERAE, 132 umbraculata, Euxanthis, 8 umbraculigerum, Helichrysum, 134 umvotensis, Habenaria, 123 undatum, Helichrysum, 134 unguicornis, Blossia, 64, 65 unitum , Nephrodium, 120 Polypodium, 120 urens, Mucuna, 128 urophyllus, Senecio, 135 Ursinia, 135 URTICACEAE, 124 utile, Thesium, 125
Vaillantii, Crassula, 126 vandami, Galeosoma, 78 (Text-fig. 4 c), 80, 81; PI. IV, fig. e Vangueria, 134 variabilis, Arthrosolen, 13 1 varius, Gladiolus, 123 vectaria, Anarsia, 21 velutina, Crabbea, 133 Odina, 130 Venedium, 135 VERBENACEAE, 133 Verecunda, Aloe, 122 Vernonia, 134 versicolor, Sorghum, 121 verticillata, Mollugo, 125 verticilliflorum, Sorghum, 121 veterascens, Leuronoma, 16 vibrans, Gracilaria, 40
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victorini, Cryptillas, 116 victrix, Laspeyresia, 12
villosa, Grewia, 130 Pollinia, 121 Rhus, 130
villosum, Schistostephium, 135 villosus, Coccolus, 126 viminea, Buchenroedera, 128 vimineus, Senecio, 135 violescens, Laspeyresia, 51 virens, Mollugo hirta, 125 virgata, Cluytia, 129 viridifolia, Gerbera, 135 viridis, Pellaea, 121 viscosa, Sphenandra, 133 viscosum , Acrostichum , 121 Viscum, 124 VITACEAE, 130 Vitex, 133 vittatus, Diores, 106 vittipes, Diores, 106 Viverra, 112
vorax, Pterinochilus, 102 ftn vulpecula, Homostola, 108
Wahlenbergia, 134 Wakefieldii, 124 Warburgia, 60, 13 1 Watkinsonii, Eulophia, 124 Welwitschii, Monechma, 133 Wickensii, Aloe, 122 Cotyledon, 126 wilmsianum, Satyrium, 123 Wilmsii, Acalypha, 130 Adenia, 13 1 Alchemilla, 126
Wilmsii, Argyrolobium, 128 Lasiosiphon, 128 Lotononis, 127 Melolobium, 127 Psoralea, 128
wintoni, Chrysochloris, 113 Woodii, Lotononis, 127 Worms kioldia, 13 1
xanthochyta, Crobylophora, 41
xanthomilas, Euplectes, 117 Xanthoxylon, 128 Ximenia, 125
xylophracta, Cladophantis, 34
XYLORYCTIDAE, 33, 54
Zantedeschia, 122 zebrina, Homostola, 90, 108 Huernia, 132 Spiroctenus, 90, 108 zelotypa, Proceleustis, 54 Zesticodes, 46 Zeyheri, Pharnaceum, 125 Platanthera , 123 Scolopia, 13 1 Tribulus, 128 zeylanica, Dicliptera, 133 zeylanicum, Heliotropium, 132 ZINGIBERACEAE, 123 ZODARIIDAE, 63, 105 zonale, Pelargonium, 128 Zosterops, 2 zygodes, Tinea, 44 ZYGOPHYLLACEAE, 128 zymotis, Leuronoma, 16
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Descriptions of two New Species of a New Subgenus of Bats, and a New Species of Molerats. By Austin Roberts.
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DESCRIPTIONS OF A NEW SPECIES AND GENUS OF FLYCATCHERS FROM EAST AFRICA AND TWO NEW SUBSPECIES OF GUINEA FOWLS FROM SOUTH AFRICA,
By Austin Roberts.
While on active service in German East Africa, I was fortunate in procuring, together with a few other birds, a single specimen of a fly- catcher which proves to represent an undescribed species and genus, which I propose to name :
CHLGROPETELLA gen. nov.
Diagnosis: Apparently most closely allied to Chloropeta , but differing therefrom in its much smaller size, the bill narrower and more de curved apically, the greater number of rictal bristles and in habits and habitat. The rictal bristles are comparatively longer and nasal bristles are conspicuous all along the base of the forehead, where they are almost absent and certainly fewer in number in Chloropeta. The tail is rounded, consists of ten feathers, and is about equal to the wing in length. The wing formula is : 1st primary about 55% of the length of the second ; 2nd rather shorter than the eighth ; 3rd and 6th about equal ; 4th and 5th about equal and longest.
OHLORGPETELLA SUAHELICA spec. nov.
Description : upper parts in general olive yellow, rather darker sub terminally on the tail, and the external margins and base of the tail rather clearer yellow | primaries and secondaries brown, the first and second primaries uniform, the third narrowly and the remainder broadly
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margined with olive yellow for the basal two-thirds. Entire under parts of the body, the throat and the chin “ primuline yellow” (Ridgway), sides of the face rather more olive, and the under wing coverts rather paler, yellow ; under surface of the wings brown, with broad whitish inner margins; under surface of tail feathers olive yellow, the inner margins and tips of the outer ones clearer yellow. “Iris brown; bill light brown above, pale horn brown below ; legs light brown, feet rather paler.” Length of wing 47 mm., tail 47, tarsus 15, culmen 11, breadth of bill at the base 6.
The type, which is in the Transvaal Museum collection, is a female taken on 27th January, 1917, at Myiai, an outpost situated forty miles south-west of Dar-es-Salaam on the Maneromango road and about twelve miles from that village.
Habits: It was the habits and habitat of this bird which first led me to think that it might prove to be a novelty, and after several attempts to secure a specimen it was only on the day of my departure that I succeeded. On the first occasion on which I observed these birds, three were sitting affectionately side by side on a twig not six feet above my head in a pathway through the bush ; they remained there for some time while I noted how different they appeared to be from any bird which I had previously met with or read about ; upon my disturbing them to obtain another view, they hopped about amongst the branches a little farther away, but regarded me more with curiosity than fear. They appeared to be rather uncommon, as I saw them again only upon about five or six occasions and then only when I had no means of secur- ing a specimen, except on the last, when I brought down one with a catapult and fine shot. They were noted to be lively little birds, always found in small parties of three or four, usually sitting very quietly until disturbed, whereupon they would flit about, uttering a sharp twit- tering note which might almost be described as a song ; at other times, when in search of insects, they were remarkably quick in flitting up and down and about amongst the branches of the trees in the tangled scrub. But for their brown eyes and active manner when in movement, they might be mistaken for a species of Zosterops.
Chloropeta natalensis, the genotype and only species of the genus with which I have compared this new bird, has quite different habits. Very little has been recorded of it, and I have myself only seen it on a few rare occasions, some ten years ago, in Natal. It frequents the coarse herbage found along the streams and valleys below and on the sides of mountains, and has the habits of a warbler rather than of a fly- catcher ; I have never seen more than one bird at a time, and it always proved to be very shy and upon being alarmed immediately took refuge in the tangled vegetation. The northern subspecies of Chloropeta nata- lensis do not differ appreciably in size or habits from the typical sub- species.
NUMIDA PAPILLOSA DAMARENSIS subsp. nov.
Differs from the typical Numida papillosa Rchw. in having the horn very narrow from the base to the tip, resembling a bent finger in shape. All figures of N. papillosa show that the typical form has the horn broad at the base and narrowing upwards, whereas in the present new subspecies the horn is practically the same thickness for the whole length. N. papillosa transvaalensis Neum. (Orn. Monatsb. 1899, p. 20) differs in having the papillae less developed than in the typical aufe species, and the horn much curved backwards.
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N. coronata is a subspecies of mitrata and there is no evidence that mitrata and papillosa are sub specifically connected, even though trans- vaalensis has the papillae less developed than in the more western birds. The following measurements will best illustrate the difference in the size of the casque of all these forms, the three from Windhuck, S. W. . African Protectorate, representing the type series of N.p. damarensis : —
Casque.
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Species. |
Locality. |
Wing. |
Culmen |
Breadth |
Breadth |
Length |
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N. |
mitrata |
coronata, Fish River ... ... . |
. 295 . |
26 |
at base. 30 |
midway. 22 |
from ant. base. 49 |
|
> ) |
yy |
,, Barberton |
. 274 |
25 |
29 |
18 |
50 |
|
* J |
5 y |
mitrata, Boror ... ... .. |
. 268 |
26 |
25 |
— |
30 |
|
5? |
papillosa |
transvaalensis , Pretoria |
. 280 |
25 |
30 |
19 |
50 |
|
? 9 |
,, |
,, Rustenburg. |
280 |
22.5 |
29 |
18.5 |
50 |
|
y y |
,, Rustenburg. |
.. 280 |
23 |
29 |
18 |
53 |
|
|
y y |
5? |
damarensis , Windhuck ... .. |
. 280 |
22 |
16 |
11.5 |
38 |
|
yy |
y y |
•n at |
. 285 |
24 |
17 |
10 |
37 |
|
9 9 |
9 y |
,, 9» |
. 293 |
24 |
15 |
9 |
37 |
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GUTTERA EDOUARDI SYMONSI subsp. nov.
Differs from the typical G. edouardi (Hartl.) from the coast of Natal in having only the faintest traces of chestnut coloration in the feathers of the lower neck, back, scapulars, chest and flanks and the white spots more distinctly blue, the whole general effect produced by these differ- ences being very marked. G. lividicollis Ghigi (Mem. Acc. Sc.Instit., Bologna, vi, pi. ii, 1905) does not appear to differ from the typical G. edouardi in the feather coloration, but has been founded upon the colora- tion of the skin of the neck. No notes were made upon the colour of the soft parts of this new subspecies at the time of their capture, and I am therefore unable for the present to detail them ; but Mr. R. E. Symons, who was kind enough to send a series of five specimens' to the Transvaal Museum, but is away from home at the time of writing, has promised to remedy the omission when next he is able to secure speci- mens ; the lack of these particulars does not, however, affect the status of the new subspecies. The specimens examined are two pairs of adults and an immature male, the last still retaining black and buffish down on the back of the head and short black feathers, some tipped with dirty white, on the throat ; the crest is also not fully developed. Essentially the immature specimen does not differ from the adults — but traces of bars instead of spots of bluish white are to be seen in the outer wing- coverts, abdominal region and flanks, and particularly on the tail feathers. The type series (of which T.M. No. 11585 is the type) was taken at Karkloof (3,500ft.), Natal, by Mr. R. E. Symons, after whom 1 have pleasure in naming the subspecies.
Dimensions: Adults, length of wing from tip of primaries 260 275 mm ; tail 140-160 ; metatarsus 80 ; culmen 22-25. Immature, wing 950, tail 130, metatarsus 72, culmen 22.
DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES OF A NEW SUBGENUS OF BATS AND A NEW SPECIES OF MOLERATS.
By Austin Roberts.
PLATYMOPS PETROPHILUS spec. nov.
This bat has a superficial resemblance to Nyctinomus aegyptiacus (S. African specimens), but upon close examination is found to differ in having the ears more widely separated at the inner base ; the antitra- gus represented by a mere thickening of the lobe ; the horny points on the upper part of the ear commencing near the rim of the ear and not far down as in aegyptiacus ; the thumb very thick ;the first and fifth toes also very thick — equal to double that of either of the other three — and thickly covered above and on the outer surface with fine white bristly hairs, but with hardly any of the very long bristles found in aegyptiacus ; the ears are haired as in aegyptiacus , but the area around the fibulae is more sparsely covered with white hairs. The ears arise about 4mm. apart to a height of a little more than 1 mm. and the upper margin thence for about 13 mm. is practically horizontal, thence curving down- wards a little way, increasing the breadth of the ear to 15 mm., then downwards and very slightly inwards for about 9.5 mm. to a point whence an increasing tendency inwards for 4 mm. carries the lower margin in an almost straight line to the outer base ; the antitragus is represented by a broadening and thickening of the lobe, flattened or slightly folded on the upper surface, with only a slight emargination beyond its outer edge ; the tragus is like that of aegyptiacus, quadrate, rather narrower at the base than the tip, with a slight nitch in the outer edge. The horny points on the upper margin of the ear are five in number just below the horizon, the rest on the edge of the ear, pro- ducing a saw-like horizon. The lips are wrinkled, the nostrils sub-lateral and no glands appear to be present. The wings arise on the tibia at about one-third of the length of the tibia from the feet.
The skull of the type is, unfortunately, fragmentary, having been crushed when the rock was overturned under which it had taken up its abode. Nevertheless, from what there is of it, the dentition is clearly seen to be numerically identical with that of N. aegyptiacus , but the skull is flattened as in Platymops Thos. (Ann. & Mag. N.H., ser. 7, vol. 17, p. 499, 1906) ;the premaxillae do not meet anteriorly, and the incisors are large and convergent : the foremost premclar (P2 ) is small, but easily seen without the aid of a lens, and is situated between the C °nd P4, well within the tooth row ; the lower anterior premolar is slightly smaller than the posterior premolar.
Dimensions (taken from a spirit specimen) : Length of the head and body 53 mm., of the tail 38, of the free portion of the tail 15; diametre of the ear, vertically 14, horizontally 15; height of tragus 2.5; length of snout to the inner base of the ear 7 ; forearm 42 ; thumb 7 ; third digit, metacarpal 43, 1st phalanx 16, 2nd without the cartilage 15, with the
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cartilage 22 ; fourth digit, metacarpal 41, 1st phalanx 15, 2nd phalanx without cartilage 8.5, with cartilage 11.5 ; fifth digit, metacarpal 27, 1st phalanx 11, 2nd with the cartilage 7.5; tibia 9; hind foot length (c.u.) 8, breadth 4 ; breadth of ankle pad 2. Skull : Length of dental series, from front of C to back of M3, 7.4; greatest length of mandible 13.5.
Type: Adult male, in spirits, taken by G. van Dam at Bleskop, near Rustenburg, 2nd February, 1917.
PLATYMOPS HAAGNERI spec. nov.
A small species having an affinity to P. petrophilus in the dental formula, flattened skull, absence of a definite antitragus, shortness and number of the bristles on the toes, and in the horny points on the upper part of the ears being situated near the horizon of the ear ; but differing therefrom in its smaller size, the horny points on the ears only two in number ; the lower P2 much smaller than the P4, which is higher, the tips of Mlt P4 and C forming an almost straight line at a slight angle rising forward ; the upper incisors are also comparatively shorter than in petrophilus , and a cingulum can be seen in P2 with the aid of a lens. The lower incisors are bifid. The bony palate extends well behind the molars.
Dimensions of the type in spirits: Length of the head and body 50 mm.; of the tail 32, of the free portion of the tail 13.5; ear, height 10, breadth 13.5; height of the tragus 2.3; length of forearm 37; pollex (c.u.) 5; third digit, metacarpal 37, 1st phalanx 14, 2nd without carti- lage 12; fourth digit, metacarpal 36, 1st phalanx 12.5, 2nd phalanx without cartilage 6; fifth digit, metacarpal 25, 1st phalanx 10, 2nd 4.7; tibia 10; hind foot, length (c.u.) 6.5 Skull: Greatest basal length 16.2; zygomatic width 10 ; width at mastoid 9.8 ; width of brain case 9 ; in- terorbital constriction 3.7; basilar length 13.1; palate length 5.5; length of dental series, from front of C to back of M3, 6 ; width of palate taken outside the molars 7 ; greatest length of mandible 12.
Type: Adult male from Keetmanshoop, Damaraland, presented to the Museum by Mr. Sigmund Haagner.
These two species apparently belong to the genus Platymops Thos., but differing as they do in the dental formula, the P2 being present, I propose to place them in a new subgenus bearing the name of SAUROMYS, of which P.haagneri maybe taken as the genotype. The fol- lowing figures will indicate the difference in the height of the skull of N. aegyptiacus and the present new species, the measurements having been taken from the tips of the P4 vertically parallel to the top of the premaxilla :
N. aegyptiacus 6.5 mm., P. petrophilus 4.2, P. haagneri 4.
GEORYCHUS PALKI spec. nov.
Most closely allied to G. anomalus mihi in having the nasals long and narrow and the same buffish grey coloration ; but differing from this and all other members of this group in having a very distinct semi- circular notch in the upper anterior angle of the ocular area of the skull, this notch effecting a thinning of the arch of the maxilla above the antorbital foramen and opposite the antorbital process. In two adult specimens the hindmost molar is very large, equal in diametre to the foremost tooth.
Dimensions: Length of the head and body 150 mm.; tail 22; hind
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,foot (s.u.) 29. Skull: Extreme length from the tips of the incisors
42.4; length from the apex of the premaxilla 38.7, from the tips of the nasals 37 ; basilar length 32.5 ; greatest zygomatic width 29.2 ; width of brain case 16.8; mastoid width 20; inter-orbital constriction 8.4; width of premaxilla 8.7: width of incisors at the exposed base 6.4; length of molar series 7.5; diastema 12.8; length of bony palate 24.2; greatest diametre of bullae, including the internal projection, 10.3 ; nasals 15.6 x 4.1.
Type: Old male, No. T.M. m 2085, taken at Venterskroon, on
the banks of the Vaal River, Potchefstroom District, 24th March, 1917. Also a series of five younger specimens from the same colony, showing the same characters ; but unfortunately the only female captured is not mature and the number of mammae is not known.
I have named this animal after Mr. Robert Palk, who materially assisted me in effecting their captvre.
Besides these specimens, two others were captured in another colony, an adult female and a young adult male, which have all the characters, including the number of mammae, of G. natalensis mihi, though they are somewhat paler on the muzzle. This again illustrates the necessity for carefully noting which colonies specimens were cap- tured in, each species apparently living upon a particular vegetable food.
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DESCRIPTIONS OF SOUTH AFRICAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA
By E. Meyrick, B.A., F.R.S.
PTEROPHORIDAE
Platyptilia bullifera n.sp.
$ 20 mm. Head pale brownish, face and sides of crown whitish. Palpi 2J , brownish mixed with dark fuscous, base and apex white. Thorax pale brownish, posteriorly whitish. Abdomen whitish, on sides and posteriorly mixed with fuscous. Forewings cleft to beyond f , second segment narrow at base and posteriorly dilated, apex pointed, termen of first segment concave, oblique, of second concave, little oblique; pale brownish suffusedly irrorated with white except towards anterior half of costa, towards costa suffused with reddish-fuscous, costal edge suffused with dark fuscous towards middle; a trapezoidal dark reddish-fuscous spot crossing middle of first segment, narrowed downwards, edged anteriorly with white suffusion broader towards costa, and posteriorly by a white line ; a trapezoidal dark reddish-fuscous spot occupying basal half of second segment; both segments beyond these markings light red-brownish sprinkled with white: cilia whitish, on costal spot dark fuscous, on termen with basal third brown edged by a dark fuscous line, twice interrupted with white on first segment, within cleft grey mixed with whitish on lower margin of first segment, on dorsum with three dark grey patches tipped with black, viz. one moderate at f of wing, one narrow beneath cleft, and one broad from near this to tornus. Hindwings dark grey, third segment f of first; cilia grey, tinged with whitish on lower angle of second segment, on dorsum with an inconspicuous tooth of three or four blackish-tipped scales at f of third segment, and three or four scattered similar scales near before this.
Zululand, Eshowe, in January (Janse); one specimen. A very distinct species, of early type.
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CARPOSINIDAE
Carposina exsanguis n.sp.
$ 15 mm. Head and thorax white, patagia faintly tinged with ochreous. Palpi ochreous-whitish finely sprinkled with dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, posteriorly slightly dilated, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen nearly straight, oblique; ochreous-whitish, faintly clouded with very pale greyish-ochreous ; an indistinct mark of fuscous suffusion along basal sixth of costa, and five very small faint fuscous or greyish-ochreous costal spots between this and apex : cilia ochreous-whitish faintly speckled with light grey. Hindwings and cilia whitish.
Transvaal, Barberton, in December (Janse); one specimen.
PHALONIADAE
Euxanthis umbraculata n.sp.
$ 16-19 mm. Head ochreous-whitish. Palpi 3, whitish-ochreous. Thorax whitish, partially suffused with pale ferruginous. Abdomen dark grey, apex ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, somewhat dilated posteriorly, costa hardly arched, faintly sinuate in middle, apex obtuse, termen straight, oblique; light ferruginous-ochreous, more or less mixed with whitish; some ferruginous-brown marking on basal area, and anterior half of costa suffused with ferruginous-brown; a rather narrow ferruginous- brown median fascia, mixed with dark fuscous on dorsal half, obtusely angu- lated or tending to be interrupted above middle; a small dark fuscous discal dot beyond this ; three small brown spots on costa between this and terminal fascia; a suffused ferruginous-brown terminal fascia, tending to be produced anteriorly in suffused streaks along veins towards cell : cilia whitish-ferruginous, barred or sometimes generally suffused with rather dark grey, with dark grey subbasal line. Hindwings dark grey; cilia whitish, with grey subbasal line.
Transvaal, v.d. Merwe and Middelburg, in October and December (Janse) ; two specimens.
TORTRICIDAE
Tortrix corroborata n.sp.
15 mm. Head and thorax pale brownish-ochreous. Palpi 3^, brownish- ochreous. Antennal ciliations 1. Abdomen dark grey, anal tuft ochreous- whitish. Forewings suboblong, moderate, costa anteriorly strongly, posteriorly hardly arched, without fold, apex obtuse, termen faintly sinuate, hardly oblique; pale brownish-ochreous, tinged with silvery-grey on dorsal half; basal patch little marked, partially suffused with light ferruginous-brown except towards costa, edge irregularly curved; central fascia moderate, oblique, ferruginous-brown, on dorsal half dilated and suffused with grey posteriorly except on edge, costal edge dark fuscous; costal patch semioval, ferruginous-brown, suffused with blackish on costal edge, connected by an irregular stria with termen above tornus : cilia pale ochreous, basally somewhat dotted or barred with blackish, more strongly above apex and beneath tornus. Hindwings dark grey; cilia pale greyish, with dark grey subbasal shade.
Zululand, Nkandhla Forest, in January (Janse); one specimen.
Tortrix metapyrrha n.sp.
£ 18 mm. Head and thorax whitish-yellow. Palpi 2^, pale yellowish. Abdomen pale whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa
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slightly arched, apex obtuse-pointed, termen almost straight, rather oblique; pale yellowish ; a faint greyish dot on lower angle of cell : cilia light ochreous- fulvous, towards tornus yellow- whitish. Hindwings and cilia ochreous-whitish.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in September (Janse); one specimen.
Cnephasia pachydesma n.sp.
$ io mm. Head whitish-ochreous, centrally tinged with grey. Palpi i|, whitish-ochreous. Thorax whitish -ochreous-grey. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, moderate, posteriorly somewhat dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, oblique; pale ochreous; markings dark grey mixed with blackish; basal patch occupying J of wing, edge irregular, angulated below middle; central fascia moderately broad, straight, oblique; an almost terminal fascia, broad on costa, narrowed downwards to tornus; discal area between these markings broadly suffused with grey sprinkled with blackish: cilia pale ochreous, beneath tornus dark grey. Hindwings dark grey; cilia grey, with dark grey subbasal shade.
Zululand, Nkandhla Forest, in January (Janse); one specimen.
Cnephasia flavisecta n.sp.
$ io mm. Head ochreous-yellow, centrally yellow- whitish. Palpi 2, ochreous-yellowish. Thorax ochreous-yellowish, patagia grey except shoulder. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, posteriorly somewhat dilated, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, oblique; golden- yellowish ; markings slaty-grey, irregularly sprinkled with black, and partially mixed with whitish ; a moderate basal patch, outer edge hardly curved, vertical, including an elongate blotch of ground-colour from base of costa and a small spot below fold ; a moderate direct median fascia, somewhat expanded towards dorsum, its posterior edge suffused with black on upper half; a narrow fascia from f of costa to tornus, and one just before apex marked with black on edges, these connected by a slender bar in disc: cilia whitish-yellowish. Hind- wings pale grey; cilia grey-whitish.
Zululand, Eshowe, in January (Janse); one specimen.
EUCOSMIDAE
Eucosma inscita Meyr.
$ ii— 12. mm. Head and thorax grey, thorax sometimes with blackish median transverse bar. Palpi fuscous irrorated with whitish. Abdomen rather dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, posteriorly slightly dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen faintly sinuate, somewhat oblique; brownish-grey; costa marked with alternate groups of very fine whitish and blackish strigulae ; an angulated median transverse fascia composed of several confluent leaden striae ; short leaden marks rising from costal groups of whitish strigulae beyond this ; ocellus reaching § across wing, laterally margined with leaden-metallic streaks of which posterior is cut in middle by a very fine black dash from its interior, three fine black linear marks within ocellus above this, and some irregular short confused black dashes above and before its upper part; apex dark fuscous: cilia grey sprinkled with white. Hindwings with 3 and 4 connate; dark grey, lighter anteriorly; cilia light grey, with darker subbasal shade.
Natal, Umkomaas, in January (Janse) ; four specimens. I have redescribed this obscure species from this improved material, as its distinguishing features were not previously adequately expressed.
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Eucosma bisecta n.sp.
^ ii mm. Head and palpi dark slaty-grey, face blackish. Thorax dark fuscous, posterior half suffusedly mixed with ochreous. Abdomen dark grey. Posterior tibiae tufted with rough projecting scales beneath. Forewings elongate, posteriorly rather dilated, costa gently arched, apex rounded, termen somewhat rounded, oblique, sinuate-indented above middle; blackish-fuscous; dorsal half from base to beyond middle marked with irregular transverse blue-leaden strigae partially irrorated with whitish-ochreous ; basal area suffused with greyish- violet above this; two greyish- violet streaks from about § of costa to beyond middle of disc, thence acutely angulated to near dorsum, touched with white on costa ; a similar oblique streak from f of costa, angulated in middle to tomus, followed on upper half by a fine line of pale ochreous- yellowish irroration, its lower portion edged anteriorly with pale ochreous- yellowish and followed by an irregular pale ochreous-yellowish patch repre- senting ocellus and including two or three blackish dots; two conspicuous white direct strigulae on costa at f, terminated beneath by short oblique ochreous-yellowish marks, beyond which is a greyish-violet dot : cilia grey, round apex with blackish basal and shorter apical lines, whitish-suffused at both extremities of apical line, lower forming a whitish spot extending to basal line, beneath this with a spot of dark fuscous suffusion. Hindwings with 3 and 4 stalked, 6 and 7 stalked; dark grey, towards base with a hyaline space beneath cell; cilia light grey, with dark grey subbasal shade.
Zululand, Eshowe, in January (Janse); one specimen.
Eucosma desipiens n.sp.
cJ 11 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-whitish. Palpi densely rough- scaled, white, with oblique light grey median band. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, with moderate fold from base to f , apex obtuse-pointed, termen faintly sinuate, oblique; light grey with tips of scales white; costa from beyond fold marked with dark fuscous strigulae, and three small dark fuscous spots; small scattered undefined spots of fuscous suffusion towards dorsum and in disc posteriorly, and an indistinct streak of fuscous suffusion from beyond middle of costa to tornus, angularly projecting in middle, with a line of blackish scales in disc running into angle; apical area of wing dark grey; ocellus margined laterally with thick silvery-whitish streaks, and containing three short black linear marks : cilia whitish-grey sprinkled with white and fuscous, at apex with a fuscous bar. Hindwings with 3 and 4 stalked; pale grey; cilia grey- whitish.
Transvaal, Alberts-mine, in January (Janse); one specimen.
Eucosma glyphicodes n.sp.
$ 20 mm. Head light brownish, face suffused with dark fuscous. Palpi dark fuscous, towards base white. Thorax blackish, patagia mixed with ochreous-brown and whitish. Abdomen fuscous. Forewings elongate, costa anteriorly gently arched, posteriorly nearly straight, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, somewhat oblique; white, partially suffused with whitish- ochreouS; basal portion mixed with pale leaden-grey and irregularly marked with black, its margin irregularly black, rather oblique, enclosing a clear white spot on dorsum; between this and central fascia are two or three interrupted irregular transverse pale leaden-grey streaks, and two black dots on costa; central fascia little oblique, formed of irregular pale leaden-grey and black markings somewhat mixed with light reddish-ochreous, especially a black spot, on middle of costa and an irregular longitudinal black mark projecting pos-
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teriorly in disc; two small black spots on costa beyond this; a leaden-grey patch resting on upper half of termen, including an irregular black spot, apex and upper half of termen marked with small black spots; ocellus limited anteriorly by a leaden-grey streak confluent with this : cilia grey, basal half barred with light greyish-ochreous, at tornus with an ochreous-whitish patch, at apex blackish-grey. Hindwings with 3 and 4 stalked; grey; cilia grey.
Natal, Sarnia, in November (Mrs Curry) ; one specimen.
Eucosma melanaula Meyr.
Zululand, Eshowe, in January (Janse); an Indian species, not previously recorded from South Africa; the larva feeds on cultivated Leguminosae (Cajanus, Phaseolus) , and therefore doubtless the species has been artificially introduced.
Polychrosis ephippias Meyr.
Natal, Umkomaas, in January (Janse); another common Indian species, not previously noticed from South Africa; the larval habits are unknown.
Argyroploce caryocoma n.sp.
(J 13 mm. Head and palpi dark ferruginous-brown. Thorax white, dorsally and on shoulders mixed with dark fuscous, at apex of patagia with deep ferruginous, dorsal crest double, deep ferruginous. Abdomen grey-whitish, segmental margins grey. Forewings elongate, moderate, posteriorly rather dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen somewhat rounded, hardly oblique; 7 and 8 very shortly stalked; whitish; costa marked with fine oblique blackish strigulae suffused with brown ; some grey suffusion at base and along dorsurn to near middle; raised black dots beneath fold near base and before middle; an ill-defined grey transverse blotch from of costa to fold, some pale leaden-grey marbling in disc beyond this; central fascia beyond middle, little oblique, narrow, very irregular, more or less interrupted in middle and towards dorsum, grey sprinkled with black and marked with black on posterior margin near costa, preceded on lower half by a pale leaden-grey striga ; a pale brownish streak beneath costa posteriorly, crossed by some oblique blue-leaden marking, beneath this two blackish dots ; ocellus edged anteriorly by a long pale bluish- leaden striga and posteriorly by a shorter silvery-whitish striga, brown mixed with black and white hairscales, closed above by a brown spot, terminal area beyond this brown with a white striga: cilia grey-whitish with two or three dark fuscous scales, towards tornus white. Hindwings with 3 and 4 short- stalked; grey; cilia grey-whitish, with grey subbasal shade.
Natal, Umkomaas, in January (Janse); one specimen.
Argyroploce erythropa n.sp.
cJ 15 mm. Head reddish-fuscous. Palpi curved, ascending, dark reddish- fuscous, terminal joint very short, pale. Thorax fuscous. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, moderate, posteriorly rather dilated, costa slightly arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen rounded, somewhat oblique; fuscous mixed with dark fuscous; costa minutely strigulated with pale irroration; two confluent dull red dots transversely placed on end of cell; a light brownish marginal streak round apex and upper part of termen, attenuated downwards to a point : cilia fuscous, finely whitish-sprinkled, with a dark fuscous subbasal line. Hindwings rather dark grey; cilia grey, becoming whitish towards tips, dorsal margin with an erect fringe of expanded whitish hairs. Hindwings beneath with veins 2-4 clothed with a patch of rough grey hairscales except towards termen.
Natal, Umkomaas, in January (Janse); one specimen.
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Argyroploce aster ota n.sp.
$ 1 6 mm. Head grey-whitish, forehead tinged with yellowish. Palpi light greyish sprinkled with white, second joint with two spots of dark fuscous irroration. Thorax grey-whitish, anteriorly suffused with darker grey, shoulders and crest tinged with yellowish. Abdomen dark grey. Forewings elongate- triangular, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen straight, somewhat oblique; dark grey, mixed here and there with olive-greenish and strewn with irregular silvery-leaden spots; costa suffusedly mixed with blackish, with pairs of direct indistinct whitish strigulae; an interrupted slender black longitudinal streak in disc from § to near termen ; a suffused white fascia from | of costa to dorsum before tornus, interrupted by grey suffusion round this streak ; apical area greenish-fulvous spotted with silvery-leaden : cilia grey sprinkled with white and dark fuscous. Hindwings rather dark grey; cilia whitish-grey, with dark grey subbasal shade.
Zululand, Eshowe, in January (Janse); one specimen.
A rgyroploce propitia n.sp.
J ii mm. Head grey-whitish. Palpi whitish partially mixed with grey, second joint with long hairs beneath. Thorax whitish, anteriorly and posteriorly mixed with ochreous, shoulders with dark grey spots. Abdomen dark grey, anal tuft whitish towards tips. Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, somewhat oblique; whitish, somewhat sprinkled with grey, anterior half of costa marked with dark grey strigulae, posterior half dark fuscous with five pairs of white strigulae; basal patch somewhat strigulated with dark red-brown on dorsal half, its outer edge marked by a blackish stria interrupted beneath costa and slightly bent in middle; central fascia somewhat oblique, on upper half narrow, blackish-grey, on lower moderately broad, grey suffused with pale ochreous, posterior edge angulated in middle; beyond this a rather narrow irregular fascia of leaden-grey suffusion ; anterior edge of ocellus formed by a thick pale leaden-grey streak; a roundish greyish-ochreous patch towards apex, extending indistinctly downwards into ocellus, in which is a short blackish mark, and connected with middle of termen by a short oblique suffused dark grey streak ; a small dark red-brown apical spot ; cilia dark slaty- fuscous, with dark red-brown basal line, and red-brown tornal patch. Hind- wings with 3 and 4 short-stalked ; blackish -grey, with a subdorsal fold white- scaled internally and containing a pencil of long grey hairs; cilia grey, with dark grey basal line.
Zululand, Eshowe, in January (Janse); one specimen.
Laspeyresia victrix n.sp.
10 mm. Head and thorax dark fuscous, irrorated with whitish. Palpi white somewhat sprinkled with dark fuscous. Abdomen dark grey. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa hardly arched, apex obtuse, termen bowed, some- what oblique; blackish, with tips of scales white, forming a fine nearly regular transverse striation; a rosy-leaden-metallic transverse streak at hardly reaching costa or dorsum; a thicker rosy-leaden-metallic streak from middle of costa to beyond middle of dorsum, thinner and tinged with pale blue towards costa; space between this and next markings wholly blackish except on a patch below middle; three short bluish-leaden strigae from costa posteriorly ; ocellus margined anteriorly by a thick rosy-leaden-metallic streak reaching more than half across wing, posteriorly by a short and slender bluish-
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leaden-metallic streak, and crossed by four black lines; a terminal streak of whitish irroration : cilia light grey, with black basal line, iridescent on outer half, irrorated with black towards tips round apex. Hindwings with 3 and 4 connate; fuscous, paler and thinly scaled towards base, suffused with dark fuscous posteriorly; cilia light grey, with dark fuscous subbasal shade.
Natal, Umkomaas, in January (Janse); one specimen.
Laspeyresia areata n.sp.
cJ 13 mm. Head dark fuscous irrorated with white. Palpi white, irregularly sprinkled with dark fuscous. Thorax dark fuscous, partially sprinkled with white, patagia with white apical patch. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate- triangular, costa anteriorly straight, posteriorly gently arched, apex obtuse, termen bowed, somewhat oblique; blackish; basal fourth strewn with suffused white strigulae; costa beyond this with about eight pairs of white strigulae whence rise indistinct short fine blue-leaden strigae; a large white rather oblique transverse blotch resting on dorsum beyond middle and reaching more than half across wing, anterior edge convex, posterior confluent in disc with a broad patch of ochreous-white suffusion extending across wing from five posterior pairs of strigulae to tornus, including a silvery-metallic dorsal streak representing anterior margin of ocellus and a small mark on its posterior margin ; the narrow terminal streak beyond this is finely speckled with whitish : cilia grey. Hindwings with 3 and 4 connate; fuscous, lighter towards base, suffused with dark fuscous posteriorly; cilia ochreous-white, with dark grey basal shade.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in November (Janse); one specimen.
Laspeyresia excoriata n.sp.
cJ 10 mm. Head and palpi whitish-grey-ochreous, crown spotted with light grey. Thorax whitish-grey-ochreous, spotted and anteriorly suffused with dark fuscous. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen fain tty sinuate, somewhat oblique; dark fuscous, from base to beyond middle irregularly and coarsely mottled with whitish-ochreous, beyond this with extreme tips of scales whitish-ochreous ; 'costa from near base to beyond middle with pairs of very fine whitish strigulae and beyond this with four single stronger white strigulae; a curved violet- leaden line running from last pair (beyond middle of costa) to anterior margin of ocellus, and an oblique line from second single strigula to a white mark on termen beneath apex; subcostal space between and beyond these yellow- ochreous, connected beneath with a yellow-ochreous patch representing ocellus and containing five longitudinal blackish marks, anterior limiting line broken and margined with ochreous-whitish towards lower extremity; a terminal streak of black and whitish speckling : cilia grey, towards tornus tinged with whitish. Hindwings with 3 and 4 stalked; grey, rather thinly scaled, veins darker; cilia whitish-grey, with dark grey basal line.
Zululand, Nkwaleni, in January (Janse); one specimen.
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Pynocstola Meyr.
All the South African species hitherto referred by me to Paltodora belong to this genus, which I have characterised as distinguished from Paltodora by the scaling of the palpi ( Ent . Mo. Mag. 1917, 113).
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Pycnostola crater aula n.sp.
27 mm. Head whitish mixed with grey. Palpi whitish, second joint irrorated with dark grey except apical edge, terminal joint anteriorly irrorated with dark grey. Thorax whitish, with a dorsal stripe of greyish suffusion, a fuscous line on each side of back, and a blackish blotch on shoulder. Abdomen fuscous, apex whitish. Forewings elongate, very narrow, costa faintly sinuate, posteriorly slightly arched, apex pointed, termen sinuate, very oblique; whitish; costa and veins suffused with blackish except on dorsal area beneath fold; some brown suffusion towards base of costa, above end of cell, and on a subterminal streak; large blackish dots suffused with brown beneath costa at and a short very fine black line along fold towards base; a blackish dot beneath fold at \ of wing; stigmata blackish, discal approximated, plical very obliquely before first discal ; a slender blackish streak along termen : cilia on costa white with three blackish bars, tips grey, on termen whitish with two blackish-grey shades, on tornus ochreous-grey-whitish. Hindwings grey; cilia light greyish-ochreous, tips whitish.
Natal, Standerton, in February (Janse); one specimen.
Pycnostola merista n.sp.
$ 17 mm. Head white, centre of crown sometimes faintly fuscous-tinged. Palpi white, second joint irrorated with rather dark fuscous except apex, tuft short, terminal joint with median band of dark fuscous irroration. Thorax white irregularly mixed with rather dark fuscous. Abdomen whitish. Fore- wings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded; white, with scattered dark fuscous scales; markings formed by dark fuscous irroration; a short mark from costa near base, and a spot on base of dorsum; narrow irregular oblique fasciae at | and plical stigma visible as a darker mark on second; discal stigmata represented by round spots at middle and f , first confluent with larger spots beyond it on costa and dorsum, second confluent with a spot on tornus ; an irregular trans- verse spot across wing towards apex, more or less confluent with tornal spot, and two small spots on costa before and beyond this : cilia whitish with a dark grey shade, round apex with a black basal line, and some black scales near base on terminal markings, towards tornus tinged with pale greyish**, ochreous. Hindwings light blue-grey; cilia whitish-ochreous tinged with grey, at apex with a small grey spot at tips.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in September and October (Janse); two specimens.
Pycnostola ochraula n.sp.
cJ 16 mm. Head white, with a few pale grey specks. Palpi white, second joint grey except apex, tuft very long, terminal joint anteriorly with a few grey specks. Thorax white speckled with grey. Abdomen grey, anal tuft whitish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex acutely pointed, termen faintly sinuate, extremely oblique; grey, suffusedly irrorated with white and sprinkled with dark grey; a fulvous-ochreous subcostal line from near base to f, with a blackish dot. beneath its extremity; a fulvous- ochreous line along fold throughout, marked with two black dots, the second being plical stigma; discal stigmata black, approximated, first very obliquely beyond plical, surrounded or almost connected with fulvous-ochreous; short fulvous-ochreous streaks above each of these, and a slender irregular fulvous- ochreous streak near and parallel to termen : cilia whitish-grey, with two faint dark lines. Hindwings light bluish-grey; cilia whitish-ochreous-grey.
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Transvaal, Pretoria, in September (Janse); one specimen. Nearly allied to illuminata, but distinguished by clear white head and suffusion of forewings.
Photodotis spilodoma n.sp.
$ 13 mm. Head whitish. Palpi whitish, second joint sprinkled with dark fuscous except at apex, terminal joint with subapical band of dark fuscous irroration. Antennae whitish ringed with dark fuscous, terminal § forming six dark fuscous bands separated by single whitish rings. Thorax whitish with a few dark fuscous scales. Abdomen ochreous-whitish sprinkled with fuscous. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen ex- tremely obliquely rounded; 3 present; dark fuscous irrorated with whitish, dorsal area on anterior half of wing suffused with whitish-ochreous, anteriorly extending § across wing; a blotch of blackish irroration representing plical and first discal stigmata, and a small spot on costa above it; a small brownish spot on tornus, connected by a cloudy blackish dot surmounted by a similar ochreous dot with indistinct dark second discal stigma ; a small cloudy whitish spot on costa at f ; two short ochreous streaks above and two below apex, separated by blackish irroration : cilia greyish, sprinkled with whitish and with base whitish on termen, with two darker grey shades. Hindwings grey; cilia light grey, base ochreous-whitish.
Zululand, Eshowe, in January (Janse) ; one specimen. Vein 3 of forewings is absent in type of genus, but this species is in all respects so closely allied that the discrepancy should evidently be disregarded.
Pycnodytis n.g.
Head with appressed 'scales; ocelli small, posterior; tongue developed. Antennae f, in $ simple, basal joint elongate, without pecten. Labial palpi long, recurved, second joint thickened with dense scales rather loose beneath and triangularly expanded with hairs on apical half above, terminal joint shorter than second, slender, acute. Maxillary palpi very short, filiform, appressed to tongue. Posterior tibiae clothed with rough hairs above. Fore- wings with 2-4 parallel, 6 and 7 out of 8, 7 to costa, n from middle. Hind- wings under 1, narrow- trapezoidal, apex strongly produced, acute, termen emarginate, cilia 2; 2-5 remote, parallel, 6 and 7 approximated towards base.
Allied to Aristotelia, but palpi much as in Trichotaphe.
Pycnodytis erebaula n.sp.
$ 11-12 mm. Head light grey, sidetufts tinged with brownish. Palpi dark fuscous, extreme apical edge of second joint white, terminal joint whitish, tip dark grey. Antennae dark grey, on apical half with four remote white dots. Thorax light grey more or less tinged with brownish. Abdomen pale grey. Forewings elongate-lanceolate, acute; dark fuscous, in one specimen with dorsal half suffused with brownish; stigmata black, plical obliquely before first discal, indistinct or obsolete: cilia grey, towards base suffusedly barred with dark fuscous. Hindwings and cilia light grey.
Zululand, Eshowe, in January (Janse); two specimens.
Aristotelia stipella Hlibn.
cJ 2 5-6 mm. A small form with subbasal yellow blotch from dorsum broad and reaching nearly to costa, yellow spots beyond middle of dorsum and in disc at § well-developed, in one specimen the whitish costal spot pro- duced in an irregular streak to termen above tornus; I consider the examples
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undoubtedly referable to the southern form of this European species, not previously recorded from Africa but easily overlooked.
Natal, Durban, in August and December (Janse); three specimens.
Leuronoma n.g.
Head smooth; ocelli moderate, far posterior; tongue developed. Antennae f, basal joint elongate, without pecten. Labial palpi very long, recurved, second joint with appressed scales, hardly thickened, terminal joint as long as second, slender, acute. Maxillary palpi very short, filiform, appressed to tongue. Posterior tibiae clothed with long fine rough hairs above. Forewings with 2 from towards angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa, 11 from middle. Hind- wings 1, elongate-trapezoidal, termen slightly sinuate, cilia 1; 3-5 separate, rather approximated at base, 6 and 7 stalked.
Type chlorotoma Meyr. Besides the two following species I refer to this genus zymotis Meyr., in which species the terminal joint of palpi is shorter than the second, the termen of hindwings more sinuate, cilia i|. The genus is somewhat intermediate between Telphusa and Aristotelia.
Leuronoma chlorotoma n.sp.
$ 16 mm. Head pale ochreous. Palpi whitish sprinkled with fuscous and dark fuscous. Thorax brownish mixed with grey, patagia suffused with pale ochreous, shoulders dark fuscous. Abdomen grey, apex whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse-pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded ; rosy-brown, somewhat mixed irregularly with grey and towards dorsum suffused with grey, all veins except towards dorsum marked with slender rather irregular whitish-ochreous lines; plical stigma cloudy, blackish : cilia ochreous-whitish, towards base faintly rosy- tinged, with basal and antemedian lines of black points, and two grey posterior lines. Hindwings light slaty-grey; cilia whitish-grey.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in November (Janse); one specimen.
Leuronoma veter ascens n.sp.
$ 11-12 mm. Head and thorax light brownish. Palpi light brownish sprinkled with dark fuscous, terminal joint as long as second. Abdomen pale ochreous irrorated with grey. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; light brownish, irregularly sprinkled with dark fuscous and some blackish scales; stigmata blackish, plical rather obliquely before first discal ; obscure opposite spots of dark fuscous irroration on costa and dorsum just beyond second discal: cilia light brownish, sprinkled with dark fuscous towards base. Hindwings grey; cilia light grey.
Natal, Umkomaas and Stella Bush, in January (Janse); two specimens.
Epithectis lacunosa n.sp.
(J $ 10 mm. Head whitish irrorated with dark grey or blackish, sidetufts slightly ferruginous-tinged. Palpi grey irrorated with black, second joint with white spot below middle and extreme tip white, terminal joint white with two blackish bands. Thorax grey-whitish tinged with ferruginous, shoulders blackish-grey. Abdomen light grey, two basal segments whitish- ochreous, anal tuft of whitish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded; reddish-ochreous or ferruginous ; markings grey irrorated with black ; a narrow fascia from base of costa to dorsum before middle; a narrow oblique fascia from costa at J,
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below middle running into a narrow fascia which runs from a flattened- triangular blotch on middle of costa to dorsum beyond middle and coalesces there with first fascia; a patch of irregular marbling towards costa posteriorly, connected by a very irregular blotch with dorsum before tornus, edged posteriorly by a white mark near dorsum : cilia grey, on termen mixed with black towards base. Hindwings slaty-grey; cilia grey.
Zcjluland, Nkwaleni, in January; Transvaal, Pretoria, in February (Janse); two specimens.
Parapsectris ferulata n.sp.
$ 13-14 mm. Head and thorax whitish irregularly sprinkled with dark fuscous. Palpi whitish, second and terminal joints each with base and supra - median band dark fuscous. Abdomen whitish-grey, second segment with a whitish-ochreous dorsal patch. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; fuscous irrorated with dark fuscous; a blackish dot at base of costa, and one almost at base above fold; a short very oblique whitish-ochreous streak from costa at preceded by a small blackish mark; a whitish-ochreous streak along fold from base to middle of wing, with a series of three small blackish marks, first on upper edge and the other two on lower; a very oblique whitish-ochreous streak from f of costa to § of disc, preceded by a series of three or four small blackish marks ; three small whitish-ochreous spots or dots on costa towards apex, and an undefined streak along termen, accompanied by a marginal series of small groups of blackish scales : cilia light grey, irrorated with whitish and somewhat sprinkled with blackish. Hindwings slaty-grey; cilia light grey.
Natal, Umkomaas and Verulam, in January (Janse); two specimens.
Gelechia fecunda n.sp.
rj 9 mm. Head and thorax pale yellow-ochreous. Palpi whitish, second joint dark fuscous except apex, terminal joint shorter than second, with blackish subapical ring. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; yellow-ochreous; costa finely dotted with black from base to a triangular cloudy blackish spot at f ; a triangular spot of blackish-grey irroration on dorsum before tornus, slightly before costal spot ; a small black dot representing plical stigma ; some scattered blackish scales towards apex, and several undefined marginal dots of blackish irroration round apex and termen : cilia yellow-ochreous. Hindwings under 1, apex acutely produced ; rather dark grey ; cilia light grey.
Natal, Umkomaas, in January (Janse); one specimen.
Gelechia revoluta n.sp.
cJ $ 10-11 mm. Head whitish sprinkled with dark fuscous. Palpi whitish, second joint with two bands of blackish irroration, terminal joint with apex and median band blackish. Thorax ochreous-whitish, slightly sprinkled with grey, shoulders and anterior margin more or less marked with dark fuscous. Abdomen grey, two basal segments whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex tolerably pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded; in $ with strong costal fold from base to near middle; whitish, irregularly and variably irrorated with grey; basal area suffused with pale ochreous; a blackish spot at base of costa; elongate blackish blotches on costa about ^ and dorsum before middle, more or less connected posteriorly by an oblique blackish blotch in disc; an elongate blackish blotch on costa
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before middle, beneath which is a round pale ochreous spot; stigmata black ringed with pale ochreous, plical slightly before first discal; a blackish spot on costa above second discal stigma, and a more or less developed blackish blotch on dorsum beneath and connected with it; apical area suffused with pale ochreous ; some cloudy black dots on posterior part of costa and termen : cilia dark grey sprinkled with whitish points. Hindwings i, apex considerably produced, pointed; grey; cilia grey.
Zululand, Nkwaleni, in January (Janse); four specimens.
Gelechia tetraleuca n.sp.
$ 15 mm. Head and thorax white, patagia with a blackish stripe. Palpi white, base with some black scales. Abdomen whitish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen rounded, very oblique; grey much suffused with black, especially through middle of disc, and towards dorsum near base; four white blotches, first elongate, extending along dorsum from J to f , widest anteriorly and reaching half across wing, thence irregularly attenuated, second oval, beneath costa slightly beyond middle, third roundish, on tornus, fourth semioval, on costa towards apex; a slender irregular white streak along termen: cilia white. Hindwings slightly over 1, apex obtuse, termen hardly sinuate; whitish-grey; cilia grey- whitish.
Zululand, Eshowe, in January (Janse); one specimen.
Phthorimaea geomicta n.sp.
$ 12 mm. Head and thorax rather dark brown, shoulders and anterior part of dorsum suffused with blackish. Palpi brown irrorated with dark fuscous, terminal joint with median ring and tip whitish-mixed. Abdomen light grey. Forewings elongate-lanceolate; 6 separate; brown irrorated with fuscous, with some whitish scales; some darker fuscous suffusion towards base, and forming a patch in disc at J , a small blackish spot on costa at J , discal stigmata small, black, approximated: cilia whitish-grey, sprinkled with dark fuscous on basal half, with indistinct cloudy dark basal dots on costa. Hindwings pale bluish-grey; cilia whitish-grey.
Natal, New Hanover, in October (Janse); one specimen.
Phthorimaea pendens n.sp.
$ 14 mm. Head white, crown with a few black specks. Palpi white, second joint tinged with ochreous and sprinkled with blackish, beneath with rather long rough hairscales, terminal joint loosely scaled, with two rings of blackish irroration. Thorax whitish, with a dot of black irroration in middle of anterior margin and three in a triangle posteriorly, patagia pale ochreous with two or three black specks. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded; reddish-ochreous, paler towards base, with a few scattered black scales; a blackish dot towards base above middle, one in middle beyond this, and one still further on beneath fold; an irregular oblique grey streak irrorated with black from costa at J to below middle, interrupted beneath costa, angulated and continued upwards to costa at § , and a similar streak from middle of costa crossing this and also below middle angulated upwards to touch it again just beyond second discal stigma; stigmata rather large, black, plical somewhat before first discal, these placed on margins of angle of first streak, second discal on posterior arm of first streak; some grey irroration along upper half of termen : cilia pale ochreous, sprinkled with black near base. Hindwings light slaty-grey; cilia whitish -ochreous.
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Zululand, Melmoth, in January (Jan%p); one specimen. The normal rough scaling of second joint of palpi is exaggerated into rather long hairscales in this species, and the loose scaling of terminal joint is also noticeable, but in all other particulars this species agrees well with Phthorimaea, and is pro- perly referred there.
Polyhymno hostilis n.sp.
$ 1 6 mm. Head white, centre of crown fuscous. Palpi white, second joint anteriorly dark fuscous. Thorax bronzy-brown, with five white stripes. Abdomen grey, anal tuft ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex strongly produced, acute, subfalcate, termen concave beneath apex, then obliquely rounded; bronzy-brown; a strong shining white median longitudinal streak from base to near termen, broadest beyond middle, whence it sends a line to termen above tornus, thence narrowed to a point ; a fine costal line almost from base to middle, thence very obliquely to just above apex of median streak; a narrow subdorsal white streak from base of dorsum to tornus; an oblique white line from f of costa, becoming silvery-metallic and angulated to form a short mark on termen beneath apex ; above posterior part of this an ochreous streak running into apical proj ection ; a wedgeshaped white spot before termen in middle, and some irregular white marking along termen : cilia white, on costa with two oblique dark fuscous marks at origin followed by a wedgeshaped dark fuscous spot, above apex with a basal dark fuscous mark followed by two oblique dark fuscous lines converging to apex, at apex with a grey anterior spot tipped with dark fuscous, beneath apex with a short black basal mark, below middle of termen with two dark fuscous subbasal dots, on tornal area light grey. Hindwings bluish- grey; cilia ochreous-whitish suffused with light grey towards base.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in December (Janse); one specimen. Nearest pavacma, but with costal white line almost reaching base.
Polyhymno intorta n.sp.
2 6 mm. Head ochreous-white. Palpi white, terminal joint with dark fuscous median band. Thorax dark fuscous with three white stripes. Fore- wings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex pointed, produced, termen sinuate beneath apex, then very obliquely rounded; blackish; two closely parallel whitish median lines from base, upper not reaching middle, lower continued along fold to tornus; a whitish dorsal line from base to tornus; a very oblique whitish streak from § of costa and a very oblique whitish line from ^ of dorsum, meeting at an acute angle in disc and produced to near termen, then shortly acute-angled back parallel to termen ; a fine double dark fuscous line suffused with fulvous from f of costa into apex, thence along termen to tornus, on costal portion margined on each side by fine whitish lines : cilia light grey, above apex with two wedgeshaped whitish marks separated and followed by black lines, at apex with a projecting black line, beneath apex with a short black basal mark and dark grey apical spot, beneath these with a whitish patch containing a slight brownish subbasal mark beneath. Hindwings violet-grey; cilia light grey.
Natal, Umkomaas, in January (Janse); one specimen. The smallest species of the genus.
Anacampsis elaeocoma n.sp.
n-i2mm. Head whitish-ochreous. Palpi ochreous-whitish, second joint irrorated with dark fuscous on basal half, terminal joint with anterior
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edge irrorated with dark fuscous on apical half. Thorax fuscous, sometimes tinged with whitish-ochreous dorsally. Abdomen fuscous, two basal segments pale ochreous, anal tuft whitish. Forewings elongate-lanceolate, apex rather produced, acute; 6 separate; dark fuscous finely irrorated with whitish; stigmata blackish, discal approximated, plical obliquely before first discal : cilia pale greyish-ochreous, towards base irrorated with dark fuscous, with median line of black points. Hindwings i, apex very long-produced; light bluish-grey; cilia pale greyish-ochreous.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in February and March (Janse); three specimens. Allied to cirrhocoma.
Anacampsis exsulata n.sp.
12 mm. Head ochreous-white. Palpi white, second joint black except apex, terminal joint with a fine black line on each side except towards base. Thorax blackish, with large ochreous-whitish posterior spot. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen sinuate, oblique; 6 separate; blackish; a moderately broad irregular-edged ochreous-whitish dorsal streak from base to tornus, its upper edge rather triangular-prominent at middle and f of length; a short oblique ochreous- white streak from costa at £ ; a triangular clear white spot occupying lower § of termen : cilia light grey irrorated with whitish, on costa dark grey with a basal line of white irroration becoming a subbasal white line on upper part of termen. Hindwings i, termen sinuate, apex pointed; grey; cilia light grey.
Zululand, Eshowe, in January (Janse); one specimen. This very inter- esting insect is of South American type, quite unlike any Anacampsis from other regions ; the genus is very largely developed in South America.
Acompsia eodryas n.sp.
$ $ n-i2mm. Head whitish-ochreous. Palpi ochreous-whitish, second and terminal joints each with two bands of dark fuscous irroration. Thorax whitish-ochreous, patagia partially or almost wholly brown. Abdomen grey- whitish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded; pale ochreous-yellowish, dorsal area variably tinged or mixed with brown; a narrow rosy-brown fascia from base of costa to dorsum before middle, marked with black on fold ; a similar fascia from £ of costa to dorsum before tornus, thence angulated upwards to costa before apex; the costal space enclosed by this forms a rosy-brown triangular blotch separated from it by a slender streak of ground-colour sometimes interrupted at its apex; stigmata black, on margin of angulated fascia, plical somewhat before first discal, second discal sometimes absent, a black mark also on dorsal angle of fascia ; costal edge of these markings more or less tinged with blackish ; an irregular line of black and rosy-brown scales along termen : cilia pale grey with rows of whitish points, on termen tinged with rosy and mixed with black towards base. Hindwings bluish-grey, lighter anteriorly; cilia light grey.
Zululand, Nkwaleni, in January; Transvaal, Pretoria, in April (Janse) ; three specimens. The single Pretoria specimen sent has terminal joint of palpi only £ of second (instead of f), suffused with blackish, but as it is entirely similar otherwise, I regard the structure as probably an individual abnormality or deformity. The name Acompsia Hiibn. is here employed for the genus to which in my Handbook of British Lepidoptera the name Recurvaria Haw. was wrongly applied.
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Anarsia subfulvescens n.sp.
$ io mm. Head and thorax whitish. Palpi dark fuscous, apical edge irrorated with white. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; pale fuscous, finely and closely irrorated with white, with a few scattered black scales; an elongate black mark on middle of costa, and short fine black strigulae on costal edge near before and beyond it; some small groups of black specks on termen : cilia grey irrorated with whitish. Hindwings grey, thinly scaled anteriorly; cilia light grey. Wings beneath tinged with yellowish-fulvous towards base, especially hindwings, where it is prolonged on veins to middle.
Natal, Umkomaas, in January (janse); one specimen.
Anarsia vectaria n.sp.
? 8-13 mm. Head and thorax grey-whitish, shoulders narrowly black. Palpi white, second joint dark fuscous except apex, tuft yellowish, terminal joint with three dark fuscous rings. Abdomen in whitish, sides dark fuscous, anal tuft whitish-yellowish. Fore wings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded; pale grey finely irrorated with white; small black dots on costa at base and J, and one towards costa near base; a triangular blackish blotch extending on costa from ^ to f and nearly reaching fold, its apex subtruncate; a small black dot below fold near before apex of this; some indistinct blackish-grey dots round apical part of costa and termen : cilia grey sprinkled with whitish. Hindwings with costa in $ dilated on basal half; subhyaline-prismatic, posteriorly suffused with dark grey, veins dark grey; cilia light grey. .Forewings beneath with long whitish expansible hair pencil from base below cell, lying beneath expansion of hind- wings.
Natal, Sarnia (Mrs Curry), Umkomaas (Janse), in November and January; two specimens.
Anarsia spicata n.sp.
cJ 13-14 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax light grey irrorated with whitish, patagia blackish, tuft of palpi suffused with dark fuscous towards apex. Abdomen light grey, sides blackish, anal tuft whitish, above brown. Fore- wings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex tolerably pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; grey irrorated with whitish, with some scattered dark grey and blackish scales; a thick black submedian streak from base to middle, attenuated to a point, a median streak attenuated at both ends from before middle of disc to f , and an oblique dash from above apex of this to costa before apex : cilia light grey irrorated with whitish, round apex barred with dark grey basally. Hindwings grey, paler and thinly scaled anteriorly; cilia pale grey.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in November and December (Janse) ; two specimens. Chelaria l oxo saris n.sp.
cJ 17 mm. Head ochreous-whitish sprinkled with pale grey. Palpi ochreous- whitish, second joint with long broad subtriangular tuft, suffused with dark fuscous except along apical margin, terminal joint thickened with loose scales almost to apex, with two oblique subconfluent bands of blackish irroration above middle and a ring towards base. Thorax whitish irrorated with pale grey. Abdomen grey, anal tuft large, whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely
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rounded ; 6 separate ; fuscous finely and closely irrorated with white, with some scattered blackish scales; three or four blackish dots towards base; a small obliquely elongate dark fuscous spot on middle of costa, two small costal marks anterior to this and two posterior, all separated with whitish suffusion on costal edge; plical and second discal stigmata black; a series of cloudy dark fuscous marginal dots round posterior part of costa and termen : cilia fuscous or brownish irrorated with whitish, basal half indistinctly spotted with dark fuscous. Hindwings grey, darker posteriorly; cilia light fuscous. Forewings beneath with a long expansible fuscous hair-pencil from near base of dorsum extending obliquely upwards across disc.
Natal, Umkomaas, in January (Janse); two specimens.
Chelaria aust erodes n.sp.
$ 1 6 mm. Head shining grey sprinkled with whitish. Palpi dark grey mixed with black and sprinkled with whitish, second joint with large broad tuft, with black median band and suffused with whitish basally, terminal joint with posterior scale-projection towards apex. Thorax blackish, patagia fuscous. Abdomen fuscous. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse-pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded; 6 separate; dark grey irregularly sprinkled with whitish, with scattered small blackish tufts and dashes; a longitudinal ochreous-brown mark near base in middle; seven or eight small oblique blackish spots along costa; an erect-oval spot of ground colour above tornus edged on upper half with blackish and on lower with whitish ; some blackish marking along termen : cilia dark grey sprinkled with whitish (imperfect). Hindwings dark grey, thinly scaled and whitish-tinged anteriorly, with hyaline streaks in and beneath cell; cilia light fuscous.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in March (Janse); one specimen.
Lachnostola n.g.
Head smooth, sidetufts somewhat raised; ocelli small, far posterior; tongue developed. Antennae f , basal joint elongate, without pecten. Labial palpi long, recurved, second joint thickened with scales, forming a long projecting triangular apical tuft beneath, terminal joint as long as second, slender, acute. Maxillary palpi very short, filiform, appressed to tongue. Posterior tibiae clothed with hairs above. Forewings with i b furcate, 2 from f , 3 and 4 closely approximated from angle, 6 and 8 stalked, 7 absent, 1 1 from middle. Hindwings under 1, elongate-trapezoidal, apex produced, pointed, termen sinuate, cilia if; 3 and 4 connate, 5 nearly approximated, 6 and 7 stalked.
Appears to be a development of Nothris.
Lachnostola amphizeucta n.sp.
$ 8-1 1 mm. Head and thorax whitish-yellowish, shoulders dark fuscous. Palpi yellow-whitish, second joint dark fuscous except towards apex. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded ; pale ochreous-yellowish ; a narrow dark fuscous streak along costa from base to f ; a dark fuscous streak along dorsum from near base to f ; a deep ochreous spot surrounded with blackish suffusion resting on this before middle of wing; a triangular dark grey blotch extending on costa from middle to £ and reaching half across wing; discal stigmata blackish, second just below apex of costal blotch; more or less yellow-ochreous suffusion towards tornal area, with scattered blackish scales ; an apical spot of blackish
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suffusion : cilia pale ochreous-yellowish, with a dark grey spot above apical spot. Hindwings grey; cilia light grey.
Natal, Umkomaas (Janse), New Hanover (Hardenberg) , in September, January, and March; three specimens.
Dichomeris stromatias n.sp.
$ 19 mm. Head and thorax crimson- whitish-grey. Palpi whitish-ochreous, second joint blackish except apex, with short rounded apical tuft beneath and scales expanded towards apex above, terminal joint somewhat longer than second. Abdomen grey, anal tuft pale ochreous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, posteriorly slightly dilated, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen straight, rather oblique; dull greyish-crimson; costal edge yellow- ferruginous from near base to near apex; stigmata indicated by whitish dots, second discal by two longitudinally placed, plical rather obliquely before first discal : cilia whitish-grey-crimson, more rosy- tinged towards base. Hind- wings grey, veins darker; cilia grey, base pale.
Zululand, Nkwaleni, in January (Janse); one specimen.
Trichotaphe conclusa n.sp.
<J. 13 mm. Head and thorax yellow-ochreous. Palpi rather dark bluish- fuscous, second joint expanded with rough scales above, yellowish internally and on anterior edge, terminal joint half second, tip whitish. Abdomen grey, anal tuft light ochreous-yellowish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, posteriorly hardly dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen straight, somewhat oblique; deep yellow-ochreous, slightly ferruginous-tinged, and with a slight violet gloss ; costal edge blackish tpwards base ; plical and first discal stigmata small, blackish, plical slightly posterior; a narrow blackish terminal fascia from apex to tornus, pointed beneath, with black dots on terminal edge : cilia fulvous-ochreous, outer half dark grey on termen, on tornus with a grey bar. Hindwings rather dark grey; cilia grey, extreme base whitish.
Natal, Umkomaas, in January (Janse); one specimen.
Trichotaphe hyrsoxantha n;sp.
$ 17 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-orange. Palpi pale ochreous, second joint fuscous except apex, with triangularly expanded scales above beyond middle, terminal joint somewhat longer than second. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, posteriorly slightly dilated, costa moderately arched, towards middle nearly straight, apex rounded-obtuse, termen rounded, little oblique ; ochreous-orange tinged with ferruginous; stigmata dark fuscous, discal approximated, transverse, first rather oblique, plical dot-like, beneath first discal ; a terminal series of dark fuscous dots : cilia ochreous-orange. Hind- wings grey; cilia pale yellowish, on lower half of termen suffused with pale grey. '
Natal, Umkomaas, in January (Janse); one specimen.
Trichotaphe hortulana n.sp.
12 mm. Head bronzy. Palpi ochreous-whitish, second joint ochreous except apical edge, with scales triangularly expanded above, terminal joint much longer than second. Thorax grey mixed with ochreous, with a bronzy- ochreous stripe on each side of back. Abdomen dark grey. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa hardly arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, oblique; dark iron-grey; markings fulvous-ochreous; an irregular basal patch, not
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reaching costa; a transverse fasciate blotch from dorsum before middle, edged with lighter, apex rounded, not reaching costa; an outwards-oblique fasciate blotch from middle of costa, edged with lighter, reaching § across wing, towards costa suffused with blackish; a straight slightly inwards-oblique transverse line from costa at f , apical area beyond this suffused with blackish, with cloudy black marginal dots : cilia leaden-grey, on apex and upper part of termen mixed with whitish-ochreous. Hindwings dark grey; cilia grey.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in November (Janse); one specimen.
Trichotaphe turgida n.sp.
$ 1 8 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous, shoulders slenderly black. Palpi whitish, second joint with rough projecting scales at apex beneath and strongly triangularly expanded with rough scales above, dark fuscous except apex, terminal joint much longer than second. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, narrow-oblong, costa strongly arched anteriorly, sinuate towards middle, slightly arched posteriorly, apex nearly rectangular, termen faintly sinuate, little oblique; 7 to apex; whitish-ochreous; a small black mark on base of costa; stigmata small, dark fuscous, first discal represented by a short linear dash, plical slightly beyond this ; costa slenderly dark fuscous from § to apex, cut by a whitish line which runs from § of costa to near apex and thence strongly curved to tornus, and posteriorly by three oblique whitish strigulae; a fine whitish terminal line marked with several small blackish dots, space between this and preceding line brownish-tinged : cilia whitish-ochreous (imperfect). Hindwings with 5 widely remote from 4, parallel; grey; cilia light greyish, with darker subbasal shade.
Zululand, Eshowe, in January (Janse); one specimen.
Lecithocera binotata n.sp.
(J 11 mm. Head ochreous-yellowish, crown centrally suffused with purplish- fuscous. Palpi pale yellowish, second joint externally fuscous except towards base, terminal joint anteriorly dark fuscous. Antennae pale yellowish, ringed with pale fuscous. Thorax fuscous. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded; 2 and 3 connate, 4 and 5 stalked, 8 and 9 out of 7; fuscous sprinkled with dark fuscous; discal stigmata rather large, blackish : cilia pale fuscous, with two darker shades. Hindwings grey; cilia light grey.
Natal, Umkomaas, in January (Janse); one specimen.
Dragmatucha ob septa n.sp.
$ 17 mm. Head whitish. Palpi ochreous-whitish, second joint without tuft, basal third dark fuscous, terminal joint with blackish lateral line. Thorax ochreous-whitish, with black patch on shoulders, and a black stripe on each side of back. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, posteriorly dilated, costa gently arched, towards middle slightly sinuate, apex obtuse-pointed, termen faintly sinuate, rather oblique; 3 and 4 out of 2; whitish, costa and edge of markings tinged with ochreous-yellow ; markings blackish; a spot on base of costa; an irregular-edged straight transverse streak at J- ; a very broad postmedian fascia, narrowed towards dorsum, marked with three longitudinal whitish streaks, pointed at each end; a slightly incurved streak from costa near termen to tornus ; a slender terminal streak : cilia shining ochreous-whitish, at apex with a blackish bar. Hindwings ochreous- whitish; an inwards-oblique cloudy mark of dark fuscous irroration tinged
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with ochreous from costa at f , and a more blackish mark on apical part of termen; cilia whitish, with faint ochreous-yellowish subbasal shade, at apex with a blackish bar.
Zululand, Prospect, in January (Janse); one specimen. This and the following differ from the typical species in absence of tuft of palpi, and pre- sence of vein 3 of forewings, but are entirely congeneric, the genus being distinct by other characters.
Dragmatucha bivia n.sp.
$ 22 mm. Head and thorax dark purplish-fuscous, sides of head pale ochreous-yellowish. Antennae whitish-ochreous. Palpi pale ochreous-yellowish, second joint with appressed scales. Abdomen light greyish, anal tuft pale yellowish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa anteriorly moderately, posteriorly slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen faintly sinuate, rather oblique; 3 and 4 out of 2; dark purplish-fuscous; a nearly straight whitish-ochreous transverse streak at J; a nearly straight whitish-ochreous line from costa near apex to dorsum before tornus : cilia dark grey, with faint whitish median line on termen. Hindwings grey, darker towards apex; a small ochreous- white spot on costa near apex, whence a cloudy whitish line runs near termen to below its middle; cilia grey, with cloudy whitish median line on termen to below middle.
Natal, Drummond, in December (Janse); one specimen.
Onebala homogramma n.sp.
$ 13 mm. Head whitish-ochreous, crown centrally suffused with bronzy - fuscous. Palpi whitish-ochreous, second joint suffused with bronzy-fuscous except apex, terminal joint with incomplete dark fuscous line on each side. Thorax dark purplish-fuscous. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, faintly sinuate in middle, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, oblique; 3 absent, 2 and 4 stalked, 7 absent, 8 and 9 stalked; dark purplish-fuscous ; a somewhat irregular straight transverse whitish- ochreous line at f, somewhat expanded on costa; a small whitish-ochreous spot on costa at §-, whence a fine somewhat curved line of scattered whitish- ochreous scales runs to dorsum before tornus : cilia grey with obscure darker subbasal line, base marked with whitish-ochreous at and beneath apex. Hindwings and cilia grey.
Natal, Umkomaas, in January (Janse); two specimens. Very similar to chlorotoma, and best distinguished by the quite different neuration.
Brachmia dryadopa n.sp.
(J ^ 14-15 mm- Head fuscous, face whitish-ochreous. Palpi whitish- ochreous, slightly sprinkled with grey. Thorax rather dark fuscous. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, somewhat oblique; dark purplish-ashy-fuscous; stigmata represented by small round ochreous-brownish spots more or less strongly centred with dark fuscous; a cloudy ochreous-whitish spot on costa at f : cilia dark grey. Hindwings and cilia grey.
Natal, Umkomaas, in January (Janse); Comoro Is., Mayotte, in June (Leigh) ; three specimens.
Brachmia octophora n.sp.
<J 11-12 mm. Head shining leaden-grey. Palpi ochreous-yellow. Thorax shining leaden-grey, with a slender orange stripe on each side of back. Abdomen
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grey, anal tuft ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, rather oblique; shining leaden- grey; an irregular outwards-oblique orange fascia from base of dorsum, not reaching costa; a deep bronzy blackish-edged transverse blotch from dorsum somewhat before middle, broadest on dorsum, reaching § across wing, apex rounded and margined by a crescentic orange streak; an 8-shaped orange patch filled up with fuscous, entirely crossing wing beyond middle from costa to dorsum, edged with blackish; a rather curved orange line from f of costa to just before tornus, strongly indented in middle, edged anteriorly with irregular black scales and posteriorly with blackish suffusion : cilia whitish, with black basal line, beneath tornus light grey. Hindwings grey; cilia light grey.
Natal, Stella Bush, in December (Janse); two specimens.
Brachmia fiscinat a n.sp.
io mm. Head whitish-ochreous, face more whitish. Palpi ochreous- whitish sprinkled with dark fuscous. Thorax whitish-ochreous irregularly marked with dark fuscous irroration. Abdomen grey, anal tuft whitish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse-pointed, termen obliquely rounded; ochreous-whitish, marked between veins with brown lines irrorated with dark fuscous, less marked and incomplete on costal §, strong on rest of wing, especially two terminating beneath apex in a suffused terminal spot; very oblique suffused dark fuscous lines from costa at §, and f , crossing costal f ; stigmata small, dark fuscous, slightly edged with whitish, plical somewhat before first discal : cilia dark grey, basally obscurely barred with grey -whitish, on costa whitish-ochreous. Hindwings grey; cilia light grey.
Zululand, Nkwaleni, in January (Janse); one specimen.
Syrmadaula n.g.
Head with appressed scales; ocelli small, posterior; tongue developed. Antennae § , in $ very shortly ciliated, basal joint rather elongate, without pecten. Labial palpi long, recurved, second joint thickened with appressed scales, somewhat rough beneath, terminal joint as long as second, moderate, acute. Maxillary palpi very short, filiform, appressed to tongue. Posterior tibiae clothed with rough hairscales above. Forewings with 2 and 3 short- stalked from angle, 4 and 5 somewhat approximated, 7 absent, 11 from middle. Hindwings somewhat under 1, elongate-trapezoidal, termen beneath apex very oblique, slightly sinuate, cilia 1 ; 3-5 equidistant, remote, 6 and 7 stalked.
Allied to Autosticha.
Syrmadaula automorpha n.sp.
cJ $ 13-14 mm. Head light yellow-ochreous. Palpi pale ochreous, second j oint dark fuscous except tip, terminal joint sprinkled with dark fuscous towards apex. Thorax fuscous. Abdomen brownish -grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse-pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; light fuscous irrorated with dark fuscous; stigmata moderate, dark fuscous, plical somewhat obliquely before first discal; a dark fuscous dot near dorsum at f; three or four cloudy dark fuscous dots on termen: cilia pale fuscous, on basal half sprinkled with dark fuscous. Hindwings grey; cilia pale grey.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in September and January (Janse); four specimens.
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METACHANDIDAE
Daemonarcha n.g.
Head with appressed scales, sidetufts large, raised, meeting and projecting on forehead; ocelli small, posterior; tongue developed. Antennae §•, in $ serrate, minutely ciliated, basal joint elongate, without pecten. Labial palpi very long, curved, obliquely ascending, second joint very long, much thickened with dense scales and above expanded with rough projecting scales throughout, terminal joint less than half second, slender, acute. Maxillary palpi very short, filiform, appressed to tongue. Posterior tibiae clothed with hairs above. Forewings with 1 b furcate, 2 and 3 stalked from angle, 4 and 5 approximated to them at base, 7 absent, 8 and 9 stalked, 11 from middle. Hindwings 1, elongate-trapezoidal, termeri somewhat sinuate beneath apex, cilia nearly 1 ; cell less than half wing, 3 and 4 connate, 5 somewhat approximated, 6 absent.
Allied to Ancylometis.
Daemonarcha cyprophanes n.sp.
$ 14-15 mm. Head and thorax deep purple. Palpi dark purple-bronzy- grey. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded; deep blue-purple, towards apex and termen becoming bright coppery; a faint oblique coppery strigula on costa at §: cilia purple-coppery, towards tornus dark grey. Hindwings and cilia grey; a fine groove along lower margin of cell continued between 3 and 4 to termen.
Natal, Umkomaas and Verulam, in January (Janse); two specimens.
COSMOPTERYGIDAE
Labdia caulota n.sp.
$ 17-19 mm. Head white, in $ with dark fuscous median line on crown. Palpi white, second joint thickened and roughened with scales beneath, with basal half dark fuscous and a faint fuscous subapical ring, terminal joint slightly roughened with scales anteriorly, with indistinct dark fuscous subbasal and subapical rings. Thorax white, patagia and a median streak not reaching posterior extremity dark fuscous. Abdomen dark fuscous, segmental margins white. Forewings lanceolate, apex considerably produced, acute; 6 and 7 out of 8; dark fuscous; a white streak from base for a short distance along costa, thence very obliquely to § of disc, extremities pointed; a white streak from ^ of costa to f of costa, slightly downcurved and enclosing a slender costal streak of ground-colour; a slender irregular white dorsal streak from base to beyond tornus ; a white apical dash : cilia whitish-grey, round apex darker grey, on end of costal streak white. Hindwings pale blue-grey; cilia ochreous-whitish.
Zululand, Eshowe, in January (Janse); Natal, Pinetown, in February (Leigh) ; two specimens.
Limnoecia effulgens n.sp.
cJ 12 mm. Head pale shining brassy-bronze. Palpi orange-yellow, anterior edge of terminal joint blackish. Antennae dark fuscous, apical fifth whitish. Thorax deep indigo-purplish. Abdomen dark fuscous. Forewings elongate- lanceolate; dark fuscous becoming bright deep purple posteriorly, basal area
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suffused with dark indigo, extended dorsally to a purplish patch on middle of dorsum reaching § across wing and suffused with greenish in disc; a very indistinct whitish mark on fold before ^ of wing ; a transverse white mark on middle of costa, and another towards dorsum at f of wing, dorsal edge from middle to this suffused with coppery-golden : cilia dark grey, basally scaled with purple on termen. Hindwings dark fuscous; cilia dark grey.
Zululand, Eshowe, in January (Janse); one specimen.
Cholotis melanogastra n.sp.
cJ 8 mm. Head and thorax dark bronzy-fuscous, slightly whitish-speckled. Palpi dark fuscous speckled with whitish. Abdomen blackish, segmental margins slenderly pale grey. Forewings lanceolate; dark fuscous, slightly and very minutely whitish-speckled; plical and second discal stigmata indistinct, blackish : cilia grey mixed with dark fuscous and minutely speckled with whitish. Hindwings rather dark grey, suffused with blackish from near base to beyond middle; cilia light grey.
Zululand, Nkwaleni, in January (Janse); one specimen. The character- istic blackish abdomen and suffusion of hindwings may probably be confined to the male.
Cholotis cardinata n.sp.
cJ 8 mm. Head and thorax dark fuscous, face leaden-grey. Palpi dark fuscous speckled with white, apex of second joint white. Abdomen dark grey. Forewings elongate-lanceolate; grey with bases of scales ochreous-whitish, towards costa and posteriorly wholly suffused with dark purplish-fuscous; a narrow black basal fascia, sharply edged with pale ochreous suffusion ; stigmata rather large, black, plical obliquely before first discal ; cloudy whitish opposite dots on costa at § and tornus; cilia grey suffused with dark fuscous round apical area. Hindwings grey; cilia light grey.
Natal, Umkomaas, in January (Janse); one specimen.
Batrachedra ledereriella Zell.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in October, November, and February (Janse). This South European species has not previously been recarded from South Africa.
Tr achy dor a iocharis n.sp.
15 mm. Head white. Palpi white, second joint infuscated towards base. Thorax white, with a blackish spot on shoulders and a dorsal dot anteriorly. Forewings elongate-lanceolate; ochreous-white ; some blackish suffusion on base of costa; a small blackish dot near base below middle; some irregular undefined ferruginous-ochreous suffusion extending from about J of disc to apex, in one specimen little developed; a black dot beneath fold at f (plical stigma) ; an oval spot of black irroration in middle of disc, in one specimen reduced to a dot (first discal stigma) , and a transverse spot on tornus reaching half across wing and including second discal stigma; cilia whitish-ochreous,, towards base tinged with ferruginous. Hindwings pale grey or whitish-grey; cilia whitish-ochreous.
Zululand, Eshowe; Natal, Drummond (Janse); in January, two specimens.
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Promalactis scalmotoma n.sp.
9 mm. Head and thorax bronzy, face white. Palpi fulvous, terminal joint blackish, tip white. Antennae white ringed with black, ciliations 1. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex tolerably pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; bronzy-fulvous; markings white edged with some black scales ; a fine line from base of fold to ^ of dorsum ; a rather curved line from near base in middle to dorsum before middle; an oblique line from dorsum at f , almost reaching apex of a slightly inwards- oblique subtriangular spot on costa at § reaching half across wing; a small irregular apical spot, and a very minute dot on termen beneath it; a minute white dot on tomus : cilia light bronzy-fulvous. Hind wings with 4 apparently absent; grey; cilia light grey.
Zululand, Eshowe, in January (Janse); one specimen.
Schiffermnelleria pedicata n.sp.
$ 12-15 mm. Head and thorax bronzy-orange. Palpi orange, apical half of terminal joint black with anterior edge white. Antennae white ringed with black, ciliations in J 1. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex tolerably pointed, termen nearly straight, rather strongly oblique; deep bronzy-orange, lighter towards costa anteriorly; markings white finely edged with black; fine subdorsal and plical lines on basal fifth ; a fine line from towards costa near base to disc at f , thence angled inwards (more acutely in $) to near J of dorsum, curved round and continued near dorsum to middle, then obliquely upwards to disc beyond middle, then somewhat downwards and again angled upwards to join a spot on costa at f , which is orange-yellow in $ and white in $ ; a short oblique mark before tornus, a very short mark on tornus, and a marginal row of dots round apex and termen, these markings in $ surrounded with blackish suffusion : cilia pale orange, deeper towards base. Hindwings rather dark grey, lighter towards base; cilia light grey.
Zululand, Melmoth, and Natal, Drummond, in January (Janse); two specimens.
Schiffermuelleria helminthias n.sp.
O 9-1 1 mm. Head and thorax golden-bronze. Palpi ochreous-orange, terminal joint white with a few blackish scales. Antennae white ringed with blackish. Abdomen whitish-grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex tolerably pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; golden- ochreous-orange ; markings white, finely edged with black irroration ; a straight line from base to J of dorsum ; a line from near base in middle, running in an upward curve to near dorsum before middle, thence curved round to disc beyond middle, and again angulated downwards to a small spot on dorsum before tornus; a somewhat irregular transverse streak from § of costa, nearly reaching praetornal spot ; a more or less interrupted line along upper part of termen, not black-margined anteriorly: cilia light golden-ochreous-orange. Hindwings light grey or whitish-grey; cilia whitish.
Natal, Umkomaas, and Zululand, Prospect, in January (Janse); two specimens.
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Chirocompa decurrens n.sp.
7 mm. Head shining white, back of crown and thorax dark bronzy- brown. Palpi fulvous-ochreous, terminal joint lined with blackish. Abdomen grey. Anterior tibiae and tarsi black dotted with white. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded; chestnut-brown, suffused with fuscous towards costa, termen, and base of dorsum; a white line with a few black scales on edges running from base of costa to dorsum before middle, thence along dorsum to f , whence it runs obliquely up to join a large quadrate snow-white spot on costa at f, this portion and spot edged posteriorly with black irroration : cilia light bronzy- brownish. Hindwings grey; cilia light greyish.
Natal, Umkomaas, in January (Janse); one specimen.
Opsigenes n.g.
Head smooth, sidetufts loosely raised; ocelli posterior; tongue developed. Antennae §- , basal joint elongate, without pecten. Labial palpi long, recurved, second joint somewhat thickened and slightly rough towards apex beneath, terminal joint as long as second, slender, acute. Maxillary palpi very short, filiform, appressed to tongue. Posterior tibiae clothed with hairs above. Forewings with 2 from f , 3 and 4 approximated from near angle, 7 to costa, 8 absent, 11 from middle. Hindwings f , narrow-lanceolate, cilia 2J; 3 and 4 connate, 5 absent, 6 and 7 rather approximated.
Opsigenes parastacta n.sp.
$ 7-8 mm. Head ochreous-whitish. Palpi ochreous-whitish, second joint dark fuscous except apex. Thorax dark fuscous. Abdomen grey. Forewings lanceolate ; dark fuscous ; stigmata blackish, sometimes edged posteriorly with whitish, plical obliquely before first discal; a similar dot on dorsum towards tornus; some scattered whitish scales towards apex: cilia grey sprinkled with dark fuscous. Hindwings and cilia light grey.
Natal, Umkomaas, in January (Janse); seven specimens.
Hyalochna n.g.
Head with appressed hairs, sidetufts somewhat raised; ocelli small, posterior; tongue developed. Antennae f , in $ evenly ciliated (f), basal joint elongate, with pecten. Labial palpi moderately long, recurved, second joint thickened with appressed scales, not reaching base of antennae, terminal joint f of second, moderate, pointed. Maxillary palpi very short, filiform, appressed to tongue. Posterior tibiae clothed with long rough hairs above. Forewings with 1 b furcate, 2 and 3 stalked from angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa, 11 from before middle, Hindwings 1, trapezoidal -ovate, termen slightly sinuate, cilia §; an elongate hyaline striated spot beneath cell before 2; 3 and 4 rather remote, 4 from angle, 5 rather curved, remote from 4, 6 and 7 parallel.
Allied to Allotalanta .
Hyalochna allevata n.sp.
(J 27 mm. Head yellow-ochreous, sidetufts slightly mixed with fuscous. Palpi yellow-ochreous, base of second joint somewhat infuscated. Thorax brownish-ochreous, patagia rather mixed with fuscous, dorsum mostly occupied by a large dark fuscous blotch. Abdomen ochreous somewhat mixed with grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse,
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termen slightly rounded, oblique; brownish, with faint violet tinge; basal third somewhat marked irregularly with light yellow-ochreous; stigmata cloudy, fuscous, irregularly ringed with light yellow-ochreous, plical rather obliquely beyond first discal, second discal represented by an irregular linear transverse mark, nearly followed by two dots; a cloudy pale ochreous mark in disc towards apex indicating angle of a subterminal line ; an almost marginal series of light yellow-ochreous marks round posterior part of costa and termen : cilia ochreous-yellowish, with a basal series of spots of fuscous and dark fuscous suffusion. Hindwings grey, basal third and apical edge suffused with pale yellowish; cilia pale yellowish.
Natal, Umkomaas, in January (Janse); one specimen. •
Protomacha conservata n.sp.
c£i8 mm. Head whitish-grey. Palpi white, second joint dark grey except above and at apex. Thorax grey. Abdomen grey mixed with whitish. Fore- wings elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, oblique; grey; a moderate white streak along costa from base to f, finely attenuated posteriorly; stigmata small, blackish, plical beneath first discal; a few blackish scales indicating an angulated subterminal series of dots near margin : cilia whitish-grey. Hindwings light grey ; cilia whitish-grey.
Cape Colony, Port Elizabeth, in November (Fitzsimons) ; one specimen. Depressaria orthobathra n.sp.
<J $ 15-18 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, collar suffused with brownish- grey. Palpi ochreous-whitish, second joint sprinkled with blackish, terminal joint with slight basal and supramedian rings of blackish irroration. Thorax brownish-grey sprinkled with blackish. Abdomen grey -whitish irrorated with blackish, anal tuft of $ whitish. Forewings elongate, posteriorly slightly dilated, costa gently arched, apex rounded, termen rounded, somewhat oblique; 2 and 3 stalked; whitish-ochreous or light greyish-ochreous, with some small scattered dark fuscous strigulae; base narrowly dark ashy-grey mixed with black, edge direct; first discal stigma small, blackish, with a similar dot obliquely before and above it, second formed by a whitish dot ringed with fuscous ; a marginal series of small black dots round posterior half of costa and termen : cilia ochreous-whitish. Hindwings in £ pale grey, in $ grey; cilia whitish-grey.
Natal, Umkomaas, and Zululand, Nkwaleni, in January (Janse); two specimens. Extremely like compacta, from which however it may be im- mediately distinguished by strongly rounded apex of forewings (in compacta obtuse and prominent).
Depressaria neoxesta n.sp.
cJ 17-19 mm. Head dark grey, face whitish. Palpi rosy-whitish, second joint sprinkled with blackish, with blackish subapical ring, terminal joint with blackish basal and subapical bands. Thorax pale whitish-ochreous, anterior fourth blackish. Abdomen pale whitish-ochreous sprinkled with grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded; 2 and 3 stalked; whitish-ochreous, with some scattered fuscous and black scales, costa posteriorly and termen slightly rosy- tinged; a small blackish spot on base of costa; a small spot of faint brownish suffusion near dorsum towards base; a marginal series of blackish dots round
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apex and termen : cilia light grey, pale-sprinkled. Hindwings pale grey; cilia whitish-grey, with grey subbasal shade.
Zululand, Eshowe, in January; Natal, New Hanover, in August (Janse) ; two specimens.
Aulotropha n.g.
Head with appressed scales, sidetufts somewhat raised; ocelli small, posterior; tongue developed. Antennae f , in $ serrulate, shortly and unevenly ciliated, basal joint moderate, with pecten. Labial palpi rather long, curved, ascending, second joint thickened with appressed scales, slightly rough beneath, terminal joint shorter than second, moderate, pointed. Maxillary palpi very short, filiform, appressed to tongue. Posterior tibiae clothed with hairs above. Forewings with i b furcate, 2 from angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex, 11 from middle. Hindwings f, elongate-ovate, cilia 1; 3 and 4 short- stalked, 5-7 nearly parallel.
This genus is very near the North American Gevdana, but as the two genera are at present structurally distinguishable, it seems advisable to keep them separate until further species are discovered.
Aulotropha pentasticta n.sp.
$ 14-16 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax light ochreous-yellowish. Abdomen pale yellowish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; ochreous-yellowish; stigmata black, plical nearly beneath first discal, an additional dot between first and second discal (in one specimen obsolete) , and one towards tornus somewhat beyond second discal : cilia pale yellowish. Hindwings whitish-yellowish, with grey reflections; cilia pale yellow.
Natal, New Hanover, in November and December (Hardenberg) ; two specimens. Larva feeding in a portable case composed of a piece of hollow grass-stem, foodplant not recorded.
Streptothyris n.g.
Head with loosely appressed hairs, sidetufts somewhat raised; ocelli posterior; tongue developed. Antennae hardly over in $ shortly ciliated, basal joint elongate, stout, without pecten. Labial palpi moderately long, recurved, second joint much thickened with dense scales, rough towards apex beneath, terminal joint as long as second, stout, scaled, pointed. Maxillary palpi very short, filiform, appressed to tongue. Posterior tibiae clothed with rough hairs above. Forewings with 2 from towards angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa, 11 from before middle. Hindwings nearly 1, elongate-ovate, cilia f ; a hyaline space beneath cell towards base, limited by a bar from cell to 1 c, 3 and 4 connate, 5—7 nearly parallel.
Allied to Cyphothyris .
Streptothyris tanyacta n.sp.
cJ 27 mm. Head pale whitish-ochreous, collar brown. Palpi ochreous- whitish, second joint with basal third dark fuscous and a faint fuscous supra- median ring, terminal joint with a fuscous supramedian ring. Thorax dark fuscous, posteriorly sprinkled with whitish, anterior margin brown. Abdomen dark grey, apex whitish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen rounded, oblique; fuscous, irregularly mixed with brown and whitish, and partially with black along veins in disc; first discal stigma
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indicated by an indistinct small roundish dark spot outlined with whitish, second by an indistinct transverse dark mark laterally edged with whitish; between these a similarly indistinct small dark oval spot edged with whitish; a terminal series of brown dots edged anteriorly with whitish, and round apex separated with blackish: cilia grey mixed with whitish and blackish (imperfect). Hindwings rather dark grey; cilia grey-whitish, with light grey subbasal shade.
Natal, Durban, in August (Platt) ; one specimen, bred but without par- ticulars recorded.
Ceranthes n.g.
Head with appressed scales, sidetufts slightly raised; ocelli small, posterior; tongue short. Antennae f , in simple, basal joint moderate, thickened with scales, without pecten. Labial palpi rather long, recurved, rather widely diverging, second joint somewhat roughened with, scales beneath, terminal joint half second, moderate, pointed. Maxillary palpi rudimentary. Posterior tibiae clothed with hairs above. Forewings with 2 from f , 3 and 4 approxi- mated from angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa, 11 from f. Hindwings f, ovate-lanceolate, cilia if ; 3 and 4 connate, 5-7 nearly parallel.
Intermediate between Evotis and Diocosma.
Ceranthes thiota n.sp.
cJ 13 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa moderately arched, apex pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; ochreous-white, slightly and irregularly speckled with grey, these specks accompanied by a faint yellowish tinge: cilia ochreous- white. Hindwings pale grey; cilia ochreous-whitish.
Zululand, Nkwaleni, in January (Janse); one specimen.
Diocosma eotrocha n.sp.
$ 13 mm. Head silvery- white. Palpi whitish. Thorax whitish-yellowish, transversely marked with crimson. Abdomen ochreous-whitish, with an interrupted light reddish dorsal stripe. Forewings elongate, widest in middle, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded; pale whitish- yellowish, with scattered crimson scales and irregular crimson markings forming an interrupted reticulation, costal edge white ; a crimson line sprinkled with dark fuscous from near base of dorsum to f of costa; a crimson ring following this beneath costa, within which is a small pale crimson sp'ot; a large crimson ring beyond middle nearly reaching costa and dorsum, and enclosing a smaller irregular ring, connected with lower part of termen by four crimson lines on veins; a mark of blackish irroration on costa beyond middle; an undefined line of blackish irroration running from § of costa to a narrow semioval light crimson spot on middle of dorsum : cilia crimson irrorated with dark grey, towards tornus yellow-whitish. Hindwings and cilia whitish.
Natal, Stella Bush, in January (Janse); one specimen.
XYLORYCTIDAE
Cladophantis n.g.
Head with loosely appressed hairs; ocelli very small; tongue developed. Antennae f , in strongly ciliated, basal joint short, stout, without pecten. Labial palpi long, recurved, second joint reaching base of antennae, thickened with dense appressed scales, terminal joint nearly as long as second, moderate, pointed. Maxillary palpi very short, filiform, appressed to tongue. Anterior
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tarsi longer than tibiae, posterior tibiae clothed with rough hairs above. Forewings with ib furcate, 2 from angle, 2-5 closely approximated, 7 to termen, 11 from middle. Hindwings over 1, ovate, cilia 3 and 4 connate, 5 somewhat approximated, 6 and 7 nearly parallel, transverse vein very oblique between 6 and 7, upper branch of parting-vein to between 6 and 7.
Allied to Stenoma.
Cladophantis xylophracta n.sp.
21 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax lilac-fuscous. Abdomen grey-whitish. Forewings suboblong, costa anteriorly moderately, posteriorly hardly arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, little oblique; lilac-brown, extreme costal edge ochreous; three very indistinct interrupted lines or series of dots of blackish irroration, first about oblique, angled on fold, second from a small round spot beneath middle of costa to a larger spot on dorsum before tornus, third curved, from §• of costa to praetornal spot; a terminal series of black dots: cilia light fuscous. Hindwings and cilia grey-whitish.
Zululand, Eshowe, in January (Janse); one specimen. Distinct and interesting.
Stenoma reticens Meyr.
Zululand, Nkwaleni, in January (Janse). This is an Indian species, not previously noticed in South Africa, and possibly attached to some plant of cultivation.
ORNEODIDAE
As explained elsewhere {Exotic Micvolepidoptera, Vol. 1, p. 555), I now class this family here.
Orneodes tesserata n.sp.
cJ 20 mm. Head ochreous-whitish. Palpi rather long (2f), ochreous- whitish, second joint obliquely ascending, thickened with dense appressed scales forming a short rough projection beneath at apex, irrorated with dark fuscous on basal half, terminal joint about half second, moderately stout, pointed, erect. Thorax dark grey mixed with blackish. Abdomen ochreous- whitish, mixed with dark fuscous above at base. Forewings whitish; a blackish-grey basal patch, extending on first two segments to | of wing, on others to and confluent on fifth segment with a thick blackish-grey transverse streak crossing segments 2-5 before middle of wing; a slightly curved blackish- grey slender fascia crossing segments 2-6 at f of wing, portion on third segment rather projecting posteriorly and on fourth anteriorly; four fulvous-ochreous spots on costa from | to f , first small, blackish-sprinkled, second and third larger, both connected with a fulvous-ochreous narrow irregular fascia edged with a few black scales crossing segments 2—6 and narrowly separated from the blackish-grey streak, its portions on segments 3 and 5 projecting pos- teriorly; an irregular fulvous-ochreous somewhat blackish-sprinkled curved line from fourth costal spot crossing wing, thickest on segments 4 and 5; a rather thick blackish mark on costa before apex, and black praeapical and very minute apical dots on segments 2-6 : cilia whitish, somewhat mixed with grey or blackish on markings. Hindwings white; a very small blackish basal patch; transverse series of small fulvous-ochreous blackish-sprinkled spots before middle and at f , reduced to blackish dots on sixth segment; a series of blackish dots at ^ except on sixth segment, two series between the ochreous
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spots, confluent to a single small spot on segments 5 and 6, a series towards apex of segments, and a minute apical dot on each segment; cilia white, slightly mixed with blackish on markings.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in November (Janse) ; one specimen. A very distinct species, perhaps nearest the Indian ochrozona.
Microschismus cymatias n.sp.
$ 22 mm. Head light grey, crown suffused with white except centrally. Palpi 7, dark grey, apex of terminal joint whitish. Thorax white, shoulders and a median stripe suffused with dark grey. Abdomen grey mixed with white. Forewings light fuscous irrorated with dark fuscous; costa to beyond middle suffused with white, with five small dark fuscous spots, first basal; small cloudy white spots in disc at £ and towards costa at f , latter preceded and followed by small dark spots; a faint whitish shade from beneath middle of costa to before middle of dorsum; three distinct waved white lines crossing wing posteriorly, last two terminated on costa by small white rings; a dark fuscous apical dot on each segment, edged anteriorly by a white mark : cilia pale fuscous sprinkled with dark fuscous, barred with white on markings. Hindwings white, faintly infuscated on a shade before middle; narrow grey fasciae at § and towards apex of segments; a dark fuscous apical dot on each segment; cilia white, on fasciae grey.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in April (Janse); one specimen.
COPROMORPHIDAE
Sisyroxena syncentra Meyr.
$ 26 mm. Tongue apparently absent. Labial palpi rather long, porrected, much thickened with dense scales throughout, second joint with rough ex- panded scales above towards apex, terminal joint short, obtuse. Maxillary palpi imperceptible. Shoulders and thoracic crest mixed with dark fuscous. Forewings with a terminal series of small dark fuscous dots; a very obscure suffused fuscous strigulation extending over wing from \ to near termen, with some scattered black scales.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in March (Janse) ; one specimen. Described originally from a male from Madagascar, which had lost its palpi; the above particulars are therefore supplementary to the first description.
HELIOZELIDAE
Antispila argyrozona n.sp.
$ 5 mm. Head and thorax shining bronze. Palpi extremely short, whitish. Abdomen dark grey. Forewings rather broad-lanceolate; deep purple with indigo-blue and green reflections ; a narrow straight transverse silvery-metallic fascia just beyond middle: cilia dark grey, tinged with purple towards base. Hindwings and cilia dark grey.
Zululand, Eshowe, in January (Janse); one specimen.
HELIODINIDAE
Eretmocera fuscipennis Zell.
As explained in a note in the Entomologist’ s Monthly Magazine, Vol. liii, p. 62 (1917), I now conclude that lunifera Zell., derogatella Walk., miniata Wals., dor sistrigata Wals., and Carter i Wals. are all forms of fuscipennis.
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The differences are partly sexual and varietal, but partly also the effect of an interesting dimorphism between the carmine and yellow colouring which is worthy of study and perhaps due to slight chemical action, the forms being taken together in equally fresh condition. It ought not to be difficult to find the larva and breed the species freely. Information is also required as to how the imago holds its hind legs in repose.
GLYPHIPTERYGIDAE
Brent hia leucatoma n.sp.
$ 7 mm. Head and thorax bronzy-fuscous. Palpi whitish-fuscous, second and terminal joints each with two darker rings. Abdomen dark fuscous. Forewings moderate, posteriorly dilated, costa slightly arched, apex rounded- obtuse, termen somewhat rounded, little oblique; dark fuscous, with bases of scales whitish, forming a very fine transverse striation ; an irregular angulated whitish transverse line about J ; indistinct whitish dots on costa beyond middle and at f , on dorsum at § and before tornus, and in disc at f ; a faint transverse- oval whitish ring in disc at §; a minute silvery dot near costa towards apex; a slender black marginal streak, marked with two round white dots; a group of five or six golden-metallic dots arranged in a double series on lower half of termen, surrounded with dark fuscous : cilia yellow-whitish, towards tornus fuscous (imperfect). Hindwings dark fuscous, bases of scales pale; an oblique- oval whitish ring in middle of disc ; a transverse whitish mark towards termen in middle, and a short whitish line from tornus; a violet-metallic mark from costa near apex; an almost marginal violet-metallic line near termen from apex to below middle; cilia fuscous, with oblique whitish patches above and below middle of termen (imperfect).
Natal, Durban, in August (Janse); one specimen.
Glyphipteryx decachrysa n.sp.
£ 12 mm. Head and thorax fuscous-bronze, with a fine white line above eyes. Palpi with base white, and three whorls of black white-tipped scales, apex black with white edges. Abdomen dark grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, posteriorly somewhat dilated, costa gently arched, apex rounded, termen hardly perceptibly sinuate, oblique; shining bronze, on anterior half infuscated ; a white somewhat oblique bar from dorsum before ^ , reaching fold ; five costal and two dorsal coppery-golden-metallic slender slightly oblique streaks rising from white marginal dots, first costal just before middle, reaching ^ across wing, next two longer, last two shorter, dorsal reaching half across wing, first at f ; a short coppery-golden-metallic streak along tornus, a small discal spot above this (both these partly edged with black) , and a short mark on termen beneath a small black apical spot : cilia whitish, suffused with bronze within a dark bronzy-fuscous postmedian shade, ndented%with white above middle of termen, on tornus with a dark fuscous patch. Hindwings elongate-trapezoidal, blackish-grey; cilia dark grey.
Natal, Durban, in August (Janse); one specimen.
BLASTOBASIDAE
Blastobasis arguta n.sp.
$ 13-14 mm. Head and thorax in $ whitish tinged or sprinkled with fuscous, in $ fuscous. Palpi dark fuscous, somewhat whitish-sprinkled, apex of second joint white, terminal joint pointed. Antennae in without notch
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moderately ciliated. Abdomen in whitish-fuscous, anal tuft whitish, in $ fuscous. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded; dark fuscous, minutely speckled with white; a direct white fascia before middle, in rather broad and irregularly suffused anteriorly, in $ narrower; apical third of wing suffusedly mixed .with whitish, leaving cloudy dark spots of ground colour on tornus and on costa beyond it : cilia grey irrorated with white. Hindwings rather dark grey, paler and thinly scaled towards base, especially in $ ; cilia in <$ pale grey, in $ grey.
Natal, Umkomaas, in January (Janse); three specimens.
Blastobasis egens n.sp.
$ 9-1 1 mm. Head grey more or less irrorated or suffused with ochreous- whitish. Palpi ochreous- whitish* irrorated with dark fuscous, in rather thick throughout, terminal joint shorter than second, pointed. Antennae in $ with basal notch. Thorax grey irrorated with whitish. Abdomen in A whitish-grey, in $ grey. Forewings very narrow, pointed, acute; grey irrorated with whitish and dark fuscous ; stigmata cloudy, dark fuscous, plical somewhat before first discal, an additional dot beneath costa opposite plical, and one on tornus beneath second discal : cilia light grey speckled with whitish. Hindwings grey; cilia whitish-grey.
Natal, Sarnia, Umkomaas, Verulam, New Hanover; Zululand, Nkwaleni, Eshowe (Janse); in January and February, ten specimens.
SCYTHRIDAE
Scythris nigrispersa n.sp.
18 mm. Head and thorax pale greyish-ochreous, patagia whitish towards tips. Palpi whitish, second joint light greyish-ochreous except tip, anterior edge of terminal joint grey. Abdomen light ochreous-yellowish. Forewings elongate-lanceolate, apex produced, acute; pale greyish-ochreous, thinly and irregularly sprinkled with black ; base and a very undefined streak along fold to beyond middle of wing suffused with whitish ; plical and second discal stigma widely remote, blackish; a few whitish scales towards apex : cilia pale greyish- ochreous. Hindwings with 4 and 5 stalked; purplish-grey; cilia light ochreous- yellowish, slightly tinged with grey.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in July (Janse); one specimen.
HYPONOMEUTIDAE
Ethmia glandifera n.sp.
$ 17 mm. Head white, sidetufts surrounded with blackish, base of collar grey. Palpi white, second joint blackish above, anterior edge of terminal joint black, second and terminal joints with black subapical rings. Thorax white, apex of patagia greyish and a black dot on base, one on each side of back in middle, and two posteriorly. Abdomen light ochreous-yellow. Fore- wings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, rather oblique; dorsal half grey, limited by a broad white streak from base of costa to costa before apex, enclosed costal space forming a thick dark fuscous streak; a black basal dot in middle; a linear black white- edged dot on lower margin of white streak at a large round black dot within its lower margin in middle, another surrounded with white projecting from
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its lower margin beyond f, and one slightly whitish-edged below middle at §; a black marginal line round apical part of costa and termen : cilia whitish, grey towards tips and on a subbasal line. Hindwings pale ochreous-yellowish, apical fourth suffused with light grey; cilia pale yellowish, round apex with a pale greyish subbasal line.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in October (Janse); one specimen.
Gymnogramma racemosa n.sp.
3 $ 28-32 mm. Head white. Palpi dark grey, second joint whitish an- teriorly. Antennal ciliations of $ 1^. Thorax white, with a blackish mark on each side of neck, a blackish dot on patagia, and two small dark grey spots posteriorly. Abdomen pale greyish. Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex rounded, termen rounded, somewhat oblique; 2 and 3 stalked; white ; a small grey spot on base of costa ; seyen or eight variable small round grey spots in anterior half of disc, and one somewhat larger towards dorsum at f; a short thick inwardly oblique grey streak from dorsum before tornus, in one specimen nearly obsolete; one or two very variable small grey dots towards apex or termen : cilia white. Hindwings pale grey, anteriorly some- what whitish- tinged ; cilia white, basally more or less tinged with grey.
Zululand, Nkandhla Forest, in January (Janse); three specimens.
Hesperarcha n.g.
Head with appressed scales; ocelli small, posterior; tongue short. Antennae f (?), in $ shortly ciliated, basal joint short, stout, without pecten. Labial palpi short, porrected, with appressed scales, terminal joint short, obtuse. Maxillary palpi rudimentary. Posterior tibiae smooth-scaled. Forewings with 1 b furcate, 2 from towards angle, 3 from angle, 6 and 7 closely approxi- mated at base or short-stalked, 7 to apex, 11 from middle. Hindwings 1, elongate-ovate, cilia J; 3 and 4 connate, 5-7 nearly parallel.
Hesperarcha pericentra n.sp.
24 mm. Head dark fuscous, with an orange mark on each side behind antennae. Palpi and antennae dark fuscous. Thorax blackish, patagia orange with blackish central spot. Abdomen orange, base of segments rather dark fuscous, basal segment wholly dark fuscous, ventral surface purple-blackish. Forewings elongate, posteriorly rather dilated, costa gently arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen rounded, oblique; orange; costal edge blackish towards base; a blackish nearly basal dot in middle; a large blackish dot on end of cell ; eleven large blackish marginal dots round apex and termen : cilia orange. Hindwings orange; eight blackish marginal dots round apex and termen; cilia orange.
Cape Colony (from Albany Museum) ; one specimen.
COLEOPHORIDAE
Platybathra hysterota n.sp.
cJ $ 12-13 mm. Head whitish-ochreous. Palpi whitish-ochreous, terminal joint irrorated with dark fuscous. Thorax light greyish-ochreous. Abdomen ochreous. Forewings very narrowly elongate-lanceolate; greyish-ochreous or light fuscous, more or less sprinkled with brown or dark brown; plical and second, discal stigmata dark fuscous, plical beneath middle of wing, second discal at f : cilia pale fuscous. Hindwings grey; cilia pale fuscous.
Natal, Umkomaas, in January (Janse); three specimens.
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GRACILARIADAE Phrixosceles melanostola n.sp.
$ io mm. Head white. Palpi white, terminal joint with basal, median, and subapical dark grey dots. Thorax white, with a few dark fuscous specks, patagia speckled with brownish. Abdomen whitish, two basal segments laterally suffused with blackish irroration. Forewings very narrowly elongate- lanceolate; pale ochreous irrorated with fuscous, with an irregular very undefined median longitudinal streak of suffused dark fuscous irroration mixed with white; costal area irregularly marbled with white; dorsal edge irregularly white, emitting slender oblique strigae from middle and before tornus ; apex very finely striated transversely with blackish : cilia whitish- grey, round apex with a blackish line. Hindwings whitish-grey, closely strewn throughout with black hairscales; cilia pale grey. Forewings beneath except towards apex, and hindwings wholly clothed with black hairscales.
Zululand, Eshowe, in January (Janse); one specimen. The black hair- scales may not improbably be characteristic of the only.
Acrocercops pyramidota n.sp.
$ 8 mm. Head and thorax white. Abdomen light grey. Forewings very narrow, long-pointed, acute; brownish-ochreous ; two large triangular shining white blotches, edged with black scales, on dorsum towards base and beyond middle, their apices just reaching costa, first with a thick irregular projection on dorsum to base ; a flattened-triangular white blotch along termen, reaching about half across wing, with an oblique white blackish-edged strigula from costa running into it ; a white apical dot : cilia white (imperfect) . Hindwings grey; cilia light grey.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in November (Janse); one specimen. The palpi are missing, but the species is easily recognised.
Acrocercops aphrocyma n.sp.
$ 9 mm. Head ochreous-white. Palpi white, second joint rough-scaled anteriorly towards apex, with two dark fuscous bands, terminal joint with two dark fuscous rings. Thorax white, anterior margin marked with dark fuscous. Abdomen grey-whitish. Forewings very narrow, moderately pointed, acute; whity-brownish ; costal half suffused with blackish irroration, trans- versely mottled with white from base to middle, crossed by a very oblique irregular white streak from before middle of costa to § of disc, and beyond this by three or four slender more or less confluent oblique white streaks; dorsal area from base to beyond tornus marked with irregular oblique more or less confluent white streaks not reaching middle of wing, separated by a few blackish scales ; a somewhat oblique slightly curved fine pale violet transverse line towards apex, white towards extremities; an elongate black apical dot edged above with white : cilia light grey, round apex with two blackish lines separated with white and two oblique projecting blackish apical hooks. Hindwings grey; cilia light grey.
Zululand, Eshowe, in January (Janse); one specimen.
Parectopa praestricta n.sp.
cJ 9 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax grey. Abdomen pale grey. Forewings very narrow, moderately pointed, apex produced, acute; dark grey, mixed
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with lighter towards costa and dorsum; two fine oblique whitish strigulae from disc at § to termen above tornus, two others little oblique crossing wing beyond these, followed by a small whitish terminal spot, then a fine transverse strigula, and finally a black white-circled apical dot : cilia light grey, beneath apex with an ochreous-yellow basal area. Hindwings grey; cilia light grey.
Natal, Umkomaas, in January (Janse); one specimen. Allied to the Indian capnias.
Gracilaria corrugata n.sp.
£ ii— 12 mm. Head whitish-ochreous sprinkled with grey. Palpi ochreous- whitish minutely ribbed with dark fuscous, with blackish subapical rings of second and terminal joints. Thorax whitish-ochreous irrorated with grey. Abdomen light grey. Forewings very narrow, parallel-sided, rather short- pointed; dark grey finely speckled with whitish, strewn with very small indistinct blackish dots or strigulae, tending to be arranged in longitudinal series : cilia light greyish, round apex and upper part of termen irrorated with dark fuscous. Hindwings grey; cilia light grey.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in February (Janse); two specimens.
Gracilaria vibrans n.sp.
$ io mm. Head fuscous, face suffused with pale greyish-ochreous. Palpi light greyish-ochreous. Thorax violet-fuscous, with a pale dorsal line. Abdo- men dark grey. Forewings very narrow, short-pointed; dark purple-fuscous, towards dorsum and median area of costa irregularly mottled with light brownish-ochreous : cilia grey, round apex dark fuscous irrorated with pale ochreous. Hindwings and cilia dark grey.
Natal, Durban, in December (Janse); one specimen.
Gracilaria semnophanes n.sp.
$ 17 mm. Head pale ochreous-yellow. Palpi smooth-scaled, ferruginous- brownish. Thorax ferruginous-brownish mixed with pale yellowish. Fore- wings very narrow, moderately pointed; purple, very indistinctly mottled with pale ochreous-yellowish; a dark brown blotch suffused with deep purple occupying costal half on basal fourth, its edge slightly oblique, followed by an irregular undefined light ochreous-yellowish suffusion extending along costa to § , costal edge with a few very minute blackish dots : cilia whitish-yellowish, on upper part of termen with three or four lines of blackish specks. Hindwings grey; cilia whitish-grey, with a faint purple tinge.
Natal, Drummond, in December (Janse); one specimen.
LYONETIADAE
Leucoptera autograpta n.sp.
<$ 5 mm. Head, eyecaps, and thorax shining white, head smooth. Antennae dark grey. Abdomen whitish. Forewings lanceolate, apex produced ; 10 absent; shining white; two slightly curved rather strongly oblique fine dark fuscous lines from costa, first at middle, reaching half across wing, second moderately remote, shorter, space between these pale clear yellow except towards costa; a small silvery post-tornal spot edged laterally with dark fuscous strigae and above by an elongate pale yellow spot terminated by a black apical dot : cilia white, three equidistant fine dark fuscous bars in costal cilia between post-
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median markings and apex, first oblique, second little oblique, third somewhat inwards-oblique, a projecting dark fuscous bar from apex, and another abruptly directed downwards. Hindwings and cilia whitish.
Natal, Durban, in December (Janse); two specimens. Closely similar to the European spartifoliella group, and also to the Australian hemizona.
Leucoptera obelacma n.sp.
$ $ 5-6 mm. Head, eyecaps, and thorax shining white, head smooth. Antennae dark grey. Abdomen whitish. Forewings rather broad-lanceolate, apex produced; shining white; a short fine very oblique ochreous-yellow streak from middle of costa, edged on each side with a fine blackish line; a raised pale golden-metallic post-tornal spot, edged on each side above by a minute black dot, sometimes preceded above also by an ochreous-yellow spot; a second streak from costa at § similar to the first but sometimes less defined, its apex connected with a fine longitudinal orange line running into apex, infuscated anteriorly : cilia white, on costa with fine dark fuscous basal and median lines projecting at apex. Hindwings and cilia whitish.
Transvaal, Pretoria, from September to November (Janse) ; six specimens.
Crobylophora daricella Meyr.
I now consider staterias and onychotis to be only forms of this species, which varies (perhaps climatically) in development of colour, and has pro- bably been distributed artificially over its wide range with its foodplant, the garden Plumbago capensis ; presumably South Africa is its native home.
Crobylophora xanthochyta n.sp.
6 mm. Head, eyecaps, and thorax shining white. Abdomen grey. Forewings lanceolate, apex produced, acute; shining white; a very oblique ochreous-yellow blackish-edged streak from middle of costa, converging to apex of an ochreous-yellow anteriorly blackish-edged triangular spot on costa at f, both almost confluent with an ochreous-yellow patch surrounding a raised silvery-leaden-metallic post-tornal spot edged on each side above by a black dot, this yellow patch extending to apex and into costal cilia : cilia otherwise whitish-grey, with two erect blackish lines above apex, one pro- jecting at apex, and one abruptly downwards-oblique. Hindwings grey; cilia light grey.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in July and October (Janse); two specimens. Opostega melitardis n.sp.
$ 7 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax white. Abdomen ochreous- whitish. Forewings lanceolate; shining white; an oblique yellow-brownish streak from middle of dorsum reaching half across wing; a straight yellow- brownish line from § of costa to a small black apical dot : cilia ochreous- whitish, on costa with a subbasal brownish line converging to apical dot. Hindwings and cilia ochreous-whitish.
Natal, Umkomaas, in January (Janse); one specimen.
Opostega tincta n.sp.
cJ $ 7-8 mm. Head, eyecaps, and thorax white. Antennae light greyish- ochreous. Palpi grey. Abdomen grey. Forewings rather broad-lanceolate, apex somewhat produced, acute; shining white; a blackish dot on costa before and a slight dark grey subdorsal mark opposite to it; a rather large
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triangular blackish spot on costa at §, and in $ a small blackish mark from tornus opposite, connected with it by a faint ochreous line (in $ not indicated) ; a minute black apical dot: cilia whitish, on costa white with dark fuscous antemedian line obliquely projecting at apex and very fine indistinct fuscous basal line towards origin of cilia. Hindwings grey; cilia grey- whitish, with faint rosy tinge.
Natal, Umkomaas, in January (Janse); two specimens.
Opostega idiocoma n.sp.
$ 5-6 mm. Head, palpi, eyecaps, and thorax white, frontal tuft varying from yellow-ochreous to dark fuscous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous to grey. Forewings lanceolate, apex produced, acute; shining white; an oblique wedge- shaped or triangular blackish spot on middle of costa; sometimes a small blackish dot on dorsum anterior to this; a rather oblique slender brownish line before apex, extended into costal cilia; a minute black apical dot: cilia whitish. Hindwings varying from grey to grey- whitish ; cilia whitish.
Natal, Umkomaas, in January (Janse); four specimens.
Bucculatrix praecipua n.sp.
<$ 7 mm. Head and thorax white. Abdomen whitish. Forewings lanceolate, apex produced, acute; white; markings pale ochreous, finely speckled with fuscous; a faint dot on fold at J; an oblique streak from costa before middle, not reaching half across wing; a spot on dorsum before tornus; an oblique streak from costa beyond middle to termen above tornus, its posterior edge marked with a small black dot below middle; a spot crossing wing before apex, and a dot at apex : cilia whitish, with a few black specks. Hindwings and cilia whitish.
Zululand, Eshowe, in January (Janse); one specimen.
Oxymachaeris Wals.
Head wholfy rough-haired; ocelli small, inferior; tongue rudimentary. Antennae f , basal joint moderate, dilated and rough-scaled above. Labial palpi moderate, slender, porrected, second joint with an apical external bristle, terminal joint slightly longer than second,' pointed. Maxillary palpi moderate, filiform, folded. Posterior tibiae clothed with fine hairs. Forewings with apex somewhat upturned ; 1 b simple, cell only reaching middle of wing, 2 and 3 stalked, 4 absent, 5 and 6 long-stalked, 7 absent, 9 absent, 8 and 10 long, 11 absent. Hindwings f, lanceolate, acute, cilia 2; 2 and 3 stalked, 4 absent, cell open between 3 and 5, 5 and 6 stalked, 6 to termen, 7 approxi- mated to stalk of 5 and 6 at base.
There can be no question that the following insect is at least congeneric with Oxymachaeris niveocervina Wals., but the highly remarkable neuration differs very considerably, if Lord Walsingham’s description and figure are correct; in regard to this it may be supposed that the peculiar (quite abnormal) breadth indicated in both wings in the figure of neuration is erroneous, since the proportions in the coloured figure are widely different; probably the neuration described and figured is also unreliable. I have therefore here given the generic characters of the following species in full; they are very curious, but seem to show that the genus is a highly specialised form of the Erechthiad group of the Lyonetiadae.
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Oxymachaeris euryzancla n.sp.
$ 9 mm. Head and thorax white. Abdomen whitish-grey. Forewings elongate-lanceolate; orange-yellow, posteriorly suffused with fuscous; markings snow-white; a wedgeshaped streak rising from basal portion of dorsum and running to disc at f ; a broad upcurved fasciate patch rising from middle of dorsum and running to f of disc ; a wedgeshaped spot extending along apical fifth of costa, widest posteriorly: cilia white, at apex with a projecting black dash. Hind wings pale grey; cilia grey-whitish.
Natal, Umkomaas, in January (Janse); one specimen. In niveocervina the median white marking should form a complete fascia.
Decadarchis minuscula Wals.
Natal, Durban, in July (Janse). Not previously recorded from South Africa, but it has a very wide range; the larva feeds in dry vegetable refuse.
NEPTICULIDAE
Nepticula crypsixantha n.sp.
<$ $ 6—7 mm. Head blackish. Eyecaps and thorax whitish. Abdomen grey. Forewings lanceolate; whitish-fuscous, coarsely and densely irrorated with dark fuscous : cilia grey- whitish, basal half irrorated with dark fuscous. Hindwings grey or pale grey; in $ with short broad expansible tuft of ochreous - yellow hairs covering basal third ; cilia whitish-grey.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in September and October (Janse); five specimens.
TINEIDAE
Crypsithyris spissa n.sp.
(J 11 mm. Head yellow-ochreous, face paler. Palpi pale ochreous. Thorax pale brownish-ochreous. Abdomen greyish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse-pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded; 3-5 nearly approximated, 8 absent, 7 and 9 stalked; light ochreous, coarsely and irregularly irrorated with rather dark fuscous, especi- ally posteriorly; plical and second discal stigmata approximated, represented by round cloudy rather dark fuscous spots : cilia pale ochreous-grey, with subbasal line of rather dark fuscous scales. Hindwings with 2-7 separate; rather dark grey; cilia light ochreous-grey.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in December (Janse); one specimen.
Monopis lamprostola n.sp.
$ 18 mm. Head ochreous-yellow. Palpi yellowish, externally suffused with dark fuscous except apex. Thorax dark fuscous, suffused with orange in middle of anterior margin, posterior crest orange. Abdomen light orange. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen rounded, rather strongly oblique; 7 and 8 stalked; dark fuscous, irregularly strewn with dark purplish raised scales; a large whitish-yellow triangular blotch extending on costa from ^ to f , and reaching half across wing, costal edge tinged with orange, especially posteriorly: cilia brownish mixed with dark fuscous. Hindwings and cilia orange-yellowish.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in March (Janse); one specimen.
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Tineola phaeocephala n.sp.
ii— 12 mm. Head rather dark brown. Palpi grey, tip whitish. Antennae whitish, base infuscated. Thorax whitish-ochreous, anterior margin tinged with dark grey. Abdomen pale greyish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded; 7 and 8 stalked; shining pale ochreous, with scattered grey scales, especially posteriorly; costa more or less grey towards base: cilia whitish-ochreous. Hindwings pale grey; cilia ochreous-whitish.
Zululand, Eshowe, in January (Janse); two specimens.
Tinea asp er at a n.sp.
$ 16-17 mm. Head white, face dark fuscous. Palpi blackish. Thorax white somewhat sprinkled with light grey. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse-pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; white, somewhat sprinkled with fuscous; costal edge blackish anteriorly, and marked with small blackish raised strigulae; discal stigmata raised, black, remote, second large, transverse; apical fourth of wing irrorated with dark grey, and strewn with blackish raised strigulae, especially on margins : cilia ochreous-whitish, irrorated with dark grey. Hindwings with 5 and 6 stalked; grey, paler towards base; cilia ochreous-whitish, with greyish subbasal shade.
Natal, Umkomaas, in January (Janse); two specimens.
Tinea zygodes n.sp.
cJ 8 mm. Head white. Thorax white, shoulders dark fuscous. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; whitish suffused with light ochreous-yellowish; a thick black streak along costa from base to near middle, apex truncate, lower margin bisinuate; a small black spot on dorsum beyond middle, and some black specks on dorsal edge preceding this; a spot of blackish irroration on costa at f, and a dot on tornus; a black mark on apical part of costa terminating in apex: cilia ochreous-whitish. Hindwings pointed, grey; cilia pale grey.
Natal, Sarnia, in August (Janse); one specimen.
Tinea euplocamis n.sp.
12 mm. Head light clear yellow. Palpi grey. Antennae whitish. Thorax purplish-bronzy-grey. Abdomen light greyish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded; bronzy-grey, with a faint violet tinge: cilia grey. Hindwings light grey, with a faint brassy tinge; cilia pale violet-grey.
Natal, Umkomaas and Maritzburg, in January and February (Janse); two specimens.
Talaeporia mesochlora n.sp.
cj 14 mm. Head whitish-ochreous. Palpi grey. Antennal ciliations 1. Thorax whitish-ochreous, patagia and anterior margin grey. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, posteriorly somewhat dilated, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded ; 7 and 8 separate ; greyish-fuscous, obscurely and suffusedly marbled with whitish-grey-ochreous except towards costa: cilia grey, base pale. Hindwings light grey; cilia pale; ochreous-greyish.
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Natal, Maritzburg, in August; one specimen, bred from a grey silken tapering case of triangular section, 13 mm. long X 1-5 mm. broad; probably feeds on lichens.
Fumea ominosa n.sp.
cJ 11 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen dark fuscous, palpi apparently rudimentary. Antennal pectinations 7. Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded; dark fuscous, faintly purplish- tinged; cilia concolorous. Hindwings and cilia dark fuscous.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in November (Janse); one specimen.
Sapheneutis diplop samma n.sp.
$ 14 mm. Head pale yellow-ochreous. Palpi short, whitish-ochreous. Antennal ciliations 1^. Thorax whitish-ochreous sprinkled with brownish. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded; light ochreous suffusedly irrorated with rather dark brownish : cilia light brownish. Hindwings and cilia whitish- ochreous.
Natal, New Hanover, in September (Hardenberg) ; one specimen. Sapheneutis certiftcata n.sp.
cJ 15 mm. Head whitish-ochreous. Palpi dark fuscous. Antennal ciliations 1^. Thorax whitish, with a blackish blotch occupying anterior half of dorsum and shoulders. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded; 8 absent; grey -whitish, with some scattered strigulae of grey and dark fuscous scales; an elongate black spot along basal fifth of costa; four small blackish spots on costa from § to f , first three connected by grey suffusion; small blackish spots representing discal stigmata, remote, a small blackish irregular spot towards dorsum somewhat before first: cilia grey-whitish. Hindwings grey; cilia light greyt with darker basal shade.
Zululand, Nkwaleni, in January (Janse); one specimen.
Melasina salicoma n.sp.
<J 20 mm. Head grey-whitish. Palpi slender, hairy, grey. Antennal pectinations 4. Thorax and abdomen fuscous. Forewings elongate, rather dilated posteriorly, costa gently arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen rounded, somewhat oblique; fuscous-grey, coarsely and suffusedly strigulated with dark fuscous; the confluence of strigulation forms a cloudy blotch in middle of disc and a transverse mark on end of cell : cilia fuscous, basal half obscurely barred with darker. Hindwings rather dark grey; cilia fuscous, with indistinct darker subbasal line.
Cape Colony, Grahamstown, in September (Mally); one specimen, bred. The larval case (sent) is slenderly elongate-conical (length 24 mm., breadth at orifice 2*5 mm.), covered with a smooth scale-work apparently consisting of small flat fragments of bark, orifice rather oblique; pupa protruded in emergence from a slit at about § length from orifice.
Eucryptogona secular is n.sp.
S 28 mm. Head white, face ochreous-tinged. Palpi 4, fuscous, white above and internally. Antennal ciliations Thorax whity-brownish.
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slightly dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse-pointed, termen slightly rounded, rather strongly oblique; light brownish, with some irregular dark brownish sprinkling; an irregular waved cloudy subterminal shade of dark brown irroration from costa to beneath angle of cell : cilia whity-brownish, with rows of dark brown points. Hindwings pale grey; cilia grey-whitish.
Transvaal, Johannesburg, in May (Linford); one specimen.
Zesticodes n.g.
Head with dense rough scales; ocelli imperceptible; tongue absent. An- tennae f, in serrate, ciliated, basal joint moderate, without pecten. Labial palpi moderate, porrected, loosely scaled, pointed. Maxillary palpi obsolete. Thorax with posterior crest. Posterior tibiae densely clothed with very long rough hairs. Forewings with numerous small groups of raised scales; 2 from angle, 7 to apex, 11 from before middle. Hindwings 1, elongate-ovate, cilia § ; 2—7 separate; a hyaline spot beneath cell at base.
Allied to Hapsifera.
Zesticodes cyanoscia n.sp.
<$ 20 mm. Head and thorax dark indigo-fuscous. Palpi whitish-ochreous mixed with dark fuscous. Abdomen pale ochreous-yellowish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded; whitish-ochreous; a dark fuscous patch suffused with indigo-leaden occupying basal fourth of wing and extending on costal half to middle, thence along costa more suffused and diminishing to apex; ground colour on rest of apical half slightly mixed with grey and blackish; two small blackish spots obliquely placed in disc beyond f , lower posterior: cilia brownish with bluish reflections, becoming whitish-ochreous beneath tornus, round apex and costa dark indigo-leaden-grey. Hindwings pale ochreous-yellowish, apical half suffused with grey; cilia pale yellowish, round apex with two dark grey lines.
Natal, Umkomaas, in January (Janse); one specimen.
Sclerophricta n.g.
Head rough-haired; ocelli very small, posterior; tongue absent (?). Antennae f , in biciliated with long fascicles, basal joint short, with pecten. Labial palpi moderate, curved, subascending, second joint clothed beneath and externally with very long rough spreading hairs, terminal joint short, slender, hardly pointed. Maxillary palpi obsolete (?). Posterior tibiae clothed with rough scales. Forewings somewhat rough-scaled, towards base with some erect hairscales ; 1 b furcate, 2 from towards angle, 7 to costa, 8 absent, 11 from middle. Hindwings under 1, elongate-ovate, cilia 1; 4 absent, 5-7 nearly parallel.
Sclerophricta tyreuta n.sp.
$ 11 mm. Head and palpi light ochreous somewhat mixed with fuscous. Thorax fuscous mixed with ochreous (defaced). Abdomen dark fuscous, anal tuft light ochreous. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded; light ochreous tinged with grey, coarsely and irregularly striated and strigulated transversely with blackish; four moderate undefined fuscous fasciae, first basal, second antemedian, third postmedian, somewhat oblique, fourth praeapical : cilia pale ochreous, partially suffused with brownish and mixed with dark fuscous. Hindwings blackish; cilia grey mixed with dark fuscous.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in February (Munro) ; one specimen.
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Scardia polystacta n.sp.
$ 12-16 mm. Head ochreous-whitish suffusedly spotted with dark fuscous. Palpi dark fuscous somewhat mixed with whitish, terminal joint whitish with base and median band blackish. Thorax blackish with suffused transverse pale ochreous band. Abdomen dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen rounded, rather strongly oblique; all veins separate, 7 to apex; brown; costa narrowly black, on basal half dotted with white, on apical half with four or five small ochreous-white spots ; a blackish band occupying dorsal third from base to tornus, basally reaching costa, irregularly dotted with white, more strongly on dorsum; an irregular elongate blackish patch dotted with white extending through disc from near base to near termen, interrupted at f ; terminal edge black dotted with white : cilia ochreous-whitish with a blackish basal line, with broad blackish bars towards tornus and on costa, and a narrow one beneath apex. Hindwings dark purple-grey; cilia grey.
Natal, New Hanover (Hardenberg), and Zululand, Isputeni (Janse), in January and March; two specimens.
ADELIDAE
Ceromitia benedicta n.sp.
15 mm. Head yellow-ochreous. Palpi very short, loosely scaled, grey- whitish. Thorax pale ochreous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa anteriorly slightly, posteriorly moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded; all veins separate; pale greyish-ochreous ; costal edge dark grey towards base : cilia pale ochreous. Hindwings with 5 and 6 approxi- mated at base; grey; cilia whitish-grey.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in December (Janse); one specimen.
Ceromitia resonans n.sp.
cJ 15 mm. Head grey, crown whitish posteriorly. Palpi rather short, whitish-grey. Thorax whitish-grey. Abdomen light grey, anal tuft ochreous- whitish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa anteriorly slightly, posteriorly moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded ; 8 and 9 stalked; grey strigulated with dark fuscous: cilia pale grey. Hindwings with 5 and 6 approximated at base; bronzy-grey; cilia pale grey,
Zululand, Eshowe, in January (Janse); one specimen.
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The additional species that follow were received subsequently through the hindness of Mr C. J. Swierstra, and the typical specimens are in the Trans- vaal Museum.
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EUCOSMIDAE
Eucosma thematica n.sp.
$ 12 mm. Head white sprinkled with grey, crown towards sides suffused with grey. Palpi dark grey, terminal joint and apex of second white. Thorax blackish-grey irregularly irrorated with whitish. Abdomen dark grey. Fore- wings elongate, rather narrow, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly sinuate, rather oblique; dark grey, posteriorly irrorated with white; basal patch occupying of wing, suffusedly striated with dark fuscous, with a dorsal spot of whitish irroration at its middle, posterior edge obtusely angulated rather below middle, followed by a suffused whitish fascia; an undefined darker narrow rather oblique obtusely angulated central fascia, its costal portion formed by a fine blackish streak; ocellus limited by two thick leaden streaks, and containing two or three irregular dark fuscous dots; costa posteriorly with pairs of whitish strigulae separated by blackish-fuscous marks; a slender incurved blackish streak from costa before apex to middle of termen, with a projection beneath apex : cilia grey irrorated with white and dark fuscous. Hindwings with 3 and 4 stalked; rather dark grey; cilia grey sprinkled with whitish points.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in January (Swierstra); one specimen.
Eucosma op sonoma n.sp.
^ 13 mm. Head and thorax ferruginous, face paler. Palpi wiiitish, second joint suffused with ochreous-grey. Abdomen light grey, base whitish. Fore- wings elongate, costa gently arched, without fold, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, rather oblique; light grey, irrorated with whitish; basal patch mostly suffused with ferruginous except towards costa, outer edge oblique, slightly convex; dorsal space between this and central fascia suffused with whitish; three or four dark grey dots on anterior half of costa; central fascia indicated b}^ a short fine oblique ferruginous streak from middle of costa and some ferruginous irroration elsewhere, posterior edge obtusely angulated in middle; three small oblique ferruginous spots on costa between this and apex, with faint ferruginous oblique strigae rising from them; a ferruginous apical spot ; ocellus enclosed by approximated rather thick silvery- grey -whitish streaks, and containing three small indistinct dark greyish- ferruginous dots: cilia light grey mixed with ferruginous, beneath tornus mixed with whitish. Hindwings with 3 and 4 stalked; grey, veins suffused with darker; cilia whitish-grey.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in January (Swierstra); one specimen.
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i Eucosma thalameuta n.sp.
1 6 mm. Head dark grey. Palpi whitish externally sprinkled with grey, apical half blackish. Thorax blackish. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, without fold, apex obtuse, termen slightly sinuate, little oblique; whitish, partially tinged with pale pinkish-ochreous, strewn with small light blue-leaden-grey spots and transverse marks; basal patch occupying J of wing, dark leaden-grey marked and edged with black, dorsal portion white with an irregular black spot near base; a thick black streak from middle of costa obliquely outwards to disc, thence curved round to apex, edged beneath by some brownish-ochreous suffusion in disc before § , and interrupted by a light blue-leaden-grey striga at § and again nearly interrupted by two similar marks near apex; a small deep ochreous spot towards dorsum before tornus; three small black spots on posterior half of costa : cilia grey, with whitish tornal patch. Hindwings with 3 and 4 stalked ; rather dark grey; cilia grey.
Cape Colony, Port St John, in December (Swinney) ; one specimen. Eucosma drastica n.sp.
$ 13 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax fuscous mixed with dark fuscous and whitish. Abdomen rather dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen somewhat sinuate beneath apex, bowed, little oblique; grey, mixed with dark fuscous; dorsal half from base to beyond middle blackish-fuscous, oblique blackish-fuscous streaks from costa at and middle running into this; posterior half of costa blackish-fuscous, with five white strigulae, first originating a very oblique deep blue-leaden striga, others tipped with blue-leaden, subcostal area here tinged with ochreous ; a triangular blackish-fuscous praetornal spot, separated from preceding dark area, by an irregular leaden-metallic streak; ocellus laterally edged with leaden-metallic streaks, and crossed by several irregular blackish dashes; above this an irregular patch of blackish suffusion extending from dark area to termen; terminal edge irrorated with whitish-ochreous : cilia violet-leaden- grey, towards tornus irrorated with ochreous-whitish, round apex and upper part of termen with black subbasal line. Hindwings with 3 and 4 connate; dark grey, lighter anteriorly; cilia light grey, with darker subbasal shade.
Cape Colony, Port St John, in August (Swinney), one specimen ; also one in my collection from Natal, Pinetown, in February (Leigh).
Eucosma lobostola n.sp.
p 10-11 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax ochreous-whitish. Abdomen pale grey. Forewings elongate, posteriorly slightly dilated, costa very slightly arched, without fold, apex obtuse-pointed, termen sinuate, somewhat oblique, ochreous-whitish, somewhat strigulated with light brown-reddish, posterior § suffused with brown-reddish; a spot of grey suffusion with some raised scales just beneath costa near base; margin of basal patch indicated by brownish or fuscous spots on costa at £ and dorsum at § , and a subtriangular blotch in disc before middle; posterior half of costa marked with small dark brown spots and whitish strigulae; two indistinct fine oblique blue-leaden strigae beneath these; ocellus edged laterally with silvery streaks, and including three irregular- black dots: cilia reddish-whitish, with red-brown subbasal line, tips towards apex dark fuscous. Hindwings with 3 and 4 coincident; grey; a strong pro-
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jecting dorsal lobe folded over beneath and concealing an area clothed with dark fuscous scales; cilia grey-whitish.
British S. E. Africa, Bela Vista, in November (Swierstra) ; two specimens.
Argyroploce exhilarata n.sp.
$ 17 mm. Head and palpi ferruginous. Thorax whitish-ochreous tinged with reddish, crest ferruginous. Abdomen pale grey. Forewings elongate, posteriorly rather dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen straight, rather oblique; brown-reddish obscurely overlaid with glistening violet iri- descence, indistinctly darker-strigulated ; markings dark red-brown, mixed with black; an interrupted striga indicating edge of basal patch, obtusely angulated in middle; some dots or strigulae on dorsum; upper half of central fascia well-marked, narrow, irregular, oblique, pale-edged anteriorly, with a pale dot in an excavation of its extremity posteriorly; ill-marked spots out- lined rising from dorsum in middle and before tornus; a short oblique streak from apex: cilia light brown-reddish. Hindwings grey; cilia grey -whitish, towards base tinged with pale grey-reddish, towards tornus with grey subbasal shade.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in March (Swierstra) ; one specimen.
Argyroploce sponditis n.sp.
cJ 19mm. Head and thorax dark brown. Palpi brownish, towards base whitish-ochreous, second joint with two suffused dark grey spots towards apex. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, little oblique; reddish-brown mixed with fuscous and dark fuscous; basal patch darker on upper half, edged by a sinuate rather oblique strigula; central fascia on upper half darker, moderate, oblique, obsolete beneath; an elongate patch of whitish-ochreous suffusion running from posterior edge of this in disc to two pairs of suffused whitish-ochreous strigulae on costa about f , followed on lower portion by a broad dark streak forming a rounded-acute angle upwards, its anterior arm short, posterior arm running to middle of termen ; several small dark marks on posterior half of costa; ocellus laterally margined by very obscure dark leaden-grey streaks: cilia reddish-fuscous obscurely barred with dark fuscous. Hindwings rather dark grey; cilia grey, with darker subbasal shade.
Cape Colony, Port St John, in January (Swinney), one specimen; also one in my collection from Natal, Pinetown, in January (Leigh).
Argyroploce encharacta n.sp.
$ 16 mm. Head brownish-ochreous, face and sides of crown mixed with reddish-fuscous. Palpi reddish-fuscous, basal area and a spot on second joint ochreous-whitish, tip whitish. Thorax pale ochreous. Abdomen pale greyish, anal tuft whitish-ochreous. Forewings moderately broad, dilated posteriorly, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen almost straight, vertical; pale ochreous; costa strigulated with dark fuscous; some irregularly scattered fine short reddish-fuscous longitudinal lines, a group of several stronger lines partially suffused together indicating lower § of central fascia; an oblique triangular patch of similar marking from costa towards apex finely attenuated to termen above tornus, followed by a dark stria and some pale violet iridescence; a fine dark fuscous terminal stria: cilia whitish-ochreous, on upper part of termen with basal half brown-reddish. Hindwings light grey, veins darker; cilia grey -whitish, with grey subbasal shade.
Cape Colony, Port St John, in December (Swinney); one specimen.
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Hemimene embolaea n.sp.
$ 11-13 mm. Head and palpi ochreous. Thorax ochreous, with fuscous bars on shoulders and two on posterior half. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse-pointed, termen rather strongly sinuate beneath apex, little oblique; pale ochreous, partially marked and suffused with fulvous and strewn with coarse blackish transverse marks and strigulae; costa marked with ochreous-whitish oblique strigulae between these; a slender oblique dark brown streak from middle of costa, preceded by an irregular indistinct blue-leaden-metallic interrupted line running to dorsum at f , and followed by a fine blue-leaden-metallic sinuate line running to termen beneath apex, limiting ocellus, which is margined anteriorly by a thick whitish streak and posteriorly by a streak of dark fuscous irroration, and crossed by several fine blackish dashes : cilia pale ochreous tinged with brown- ish except towards base, suffused with brown round apex towards tips, with dark brownish subbasal dots beneath apex and above tornus. Hind wings grey; cilia ochreous-whitish, with light grey subbasal shade.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in February and March (Swierstra) ; two specimens. This is the first species of the genus recorded from South Africa.
Laspeyresia violescens n.sp.
^ 16 mm. Head and thorax light violet-grey, face pale fulvous-ochreous. Palpi whitish-ochreous. Abdomen pale greyish. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen sinuate-indented beneath apex, thence somewhat obliquely rounded; violet-grey, anteriorly suffusedly mixed with grey- whitish, posteriorly finely speckled with grey -whitish ; costa on posterior § grey -whitish strigulated with dark grey; an indistinct suffused darker grey oblique streak from dorsum at f , reaching more than half across wing, forming anterior limit of a very obscure more whitish-tinged dorsal patch; a dark blue-leaden very oblique striga from costa beyond middle, strongly angulated opposite apex, and becoming obsolete towards dorsum, preceded in disc by several minute black dots or strigulae; a fine very oblique blue-leaden striga before apex ; a sinuate series of about six small black elongate dots towards termen: cilia pale violet-grey, with blackish-grey basal line. Hindwings grey, apical edge whitish-suffused ; cilia whitish.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in December (Swierstra); one specimen.
GELECHIADAE
Telphusa confixa n.sp.
$ $ II-T2 mm. Head and thorax white irrorated with dark fuscous, thorax anteriorly longitudinally marked with blackish. Palpi white, basal half and a subapical band of second joint, and base and two bands of terminal joint blackish. Abdomen greyish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded; 6 out of 7 near base; dark grey suffusedly irrorated with white, with some black scales; elongate blackish spots on costa near base, before middle, and at f ; a black streak from beneath first of these along fold to near extremity; discal stigmata black connected by a black dash, second followed by a disconnected black dash running nearly to apex; cloudy black marginal dots round posterior part of costa and termen: cilia grey, round apex sprinkled with whitish. Hindwings grey, thinly scaled towards base; cilia light grey.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in February and March (Swierstra); four specimens,.
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Gelechia exoenota n.sp.
$ 1 8 mm. Head pale rosy-ochreous. Palpi pale ochreous, basal joint and base of second dark fuscous, terminal joint anteriorly sprinkled with dark fuscous. Thorax dark violet-fuscous, apex of patagia suffused with red-brown. Abdomen rather dark grey, apex light reddish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen sinuate, very oblique; dark red-brown, suffusedly mixed with dark purplish-fuscous; a short in- distinct light reddish-ochreous transverse mark from costa almost at base; plical and second discal stigmata small, indistinct, blackish ; a small indistinct spot of ochreous suffusion on costa at £-: cilia coppery-brownish, anteriorly slightly greyish -tinged, posteriorly with three fine grey lines. Hindwings with apex pointed, termen sinuate; rather dark grey; cilia light grey.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in February (Swierstra) ; one specimen.
Apotactis n.g.
Head with appressed scales, sidetufts somewhat raised; ocelli small, posterior; tongue developed. Antennae £, in $ serrulate, simple, basal joint moderate, without pecten. Labial palpi very long, recurved, second joint with strong dense projecting apical tuft beneath, terminal joint longer than second, somewhat thickened and roughened anteriorly, acute. Maxillary palpi very short, filiform, appressed to tongue. Posterior tibiae clothed with very long fine hairs above. Forewings with i b furcate, 2-5 rather approximated, 6 absent, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to just above apex, 11 from middle. Hindwings 1, elongate-trapezoidal, apex obtuse, termen scarcely sinuate, cilia 1 ; 3 and 4 connate, 5 somewhat approximated, 6 and 7 stalked.
Allied to Chelaria.
Apotactis drimylota n.sp.
A 14-16 mm. Head whitish, sides of crown tinged with grey. Palpi dark grey, apex of second joint whitish, terminal joint whitish with two bands of dark grey irroration. Thorax whitish irrorated with grey, sometimes anteriorly suffused with dark fuscous. Abdomen grey, anal tuft whitish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded; grey, variably irrorated with white, with a few black scales; small elongate blackish spots on costa at £, and middle; black elongate dots beneath costa near base, and on fold at £, and sometimes a smaller one beyond former of these; stigmata rather large, elongate, black, plical slightly before first discal; two or three short black dashes towards costa posteriorly, and one above tornus; some cloudy blackish dots on posterior part of costa and termen: cilia light grey, round apex sprinkled with darker and whitish. Hindwings grey, slenderly hyaline beneath cell towards base; cilia light grey.
British S. E. Africa, Bela Vista, in November (Swierstra) ; three specimens.
COSMOPTERYGIDAE
Labdia macrobeia n.sp.
^ 11 mm. Head bronzy-grey, crown with very fine central and lateral white lines. Palpi white lined with dark fuscous. Thorax bronzy-grey, with three very fine white lines, apical half of patagia white. Abdomen pale ochreous. Forewings narrow-lanceolate, apex long-caudate; bronzy-grey; a silvery-white line along costa from base to fascia, and a very oblique line from this near base to beneath costa at f ; a strong white median longitudinal streak
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from base to apex; a fine white line beneath this from towards base, running into it at § ; a dull orange postmedian transverse fascia interrupted by median streak, margined on each side above and below this by two silvery-metallic spots, upper anterior one followed by a black dot; costa silvery- white for a short distance beyond fascia : cilia light grey, with white apical bar. Hindwings grey; cilia light grey.
British S. E. Africa, Bela Vista, in November (Swierstra); one specimen. Microcolona pantomima Meyr.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in December (Swierstra) ; two $ examples. The original specimens of this species were from French Congo; the forewings of $ are rather broader and less pointed than in but <£ examples also vary in these particulars, and the species is so well-marked that its identity cannot be doubted.
OECOPHORIDAE
Epiphractis thysanarcha n.sp.
9 20 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dull brownish-crimson, scales of forehead roughly projecting, face greyish; second joint of palpi expanded above with long rough projecting scales except toward base, terminal joint -£ of second. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, moderate, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse-pointed, termen nearly straight, oblique; dull light crimson, slightly ochreous-tinged, with a few scattered blackish scales pos- teriorly; an inv ardly oblique dark grey streak from middle of dorsum, reaching half across wing, edged posteriorly with light ochreous-yellowish; second discal stigma small, dark grey; a short rather inwards-oblique streak of dark grey suffusion from dorsum beneath it: cilia dull light crimson, darker towards tips, and suffused with dark grey on tornus. Hindwings grey; cilia light grey.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in March (Swierstra); one specimen. Distinguished from all others of the genus by the peculiar palpi; otherwise normal in all respects, and certainly not separable generically.
Porthmologa deltophanes n.sp.
$ 15 mm. Head white, face somewhat marked with fuscous. Palpi dark fuscous, tip white. Thorax ochreous-white, shoulders and a spot on posterior extremity dark fuscous. Abdomen grey, anal tuft whitish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded; fuscous; a white dot on base of dorsum; a triangular ochreous- white antemedian dorsal blotch, anterior edge direct, nearly reaching costa, preceded and followed by strong blackish-brown suffusion; first discal stigma moderate, black, second represented by two transversely placed minute black dots; a broad undefined transverse band of white irroration beyond middle; a small white spot on costa at f , from which a very fine incurved white line crosses wing, limiting a round fuscous anteapical area of which the upper part is mixed with blackish : cilia whitish-grey, base irregularly mixed with dark fuscous, tips suffused with fuscous towards middle of termen, on costa wholly fuscous mixed with dark fuscous except a small white spot on costal spot. Hindwings grey; cilia light grey.
British S. E. Africa, Bela Vista, in November (Swierstra); one specimen. Appears to agree in all structural essentials with the genus Porthmologa, hitherto represented only by a single Indian species; but superficially very distinct.
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Proceleustis zelotypa n.sp.
$ 13-14 mm. Head pale ochreous tinged with fuscous, face whitish. Palpi white, base of second joint dark fuscous, subapical bands of second and terminal joints fuscous. Antennae uniform light greyish-ochreous. Thorax dark fuscous. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded; rather dark ashy-fuscous; a moderately broad rather irregular-edged whitish-ochreous fascia at |, edged with irregular black scales, posterior margin angulated below middle; an irregular ochreous-whitish transverse spot from costa at f , reaching half across wing, second discal stigma irregular, black, projecting into its lower margin; sometimes an ochreous-whitish apical dot: cilia light fuscous, sprinkled with dark fuscous, with an ochreous-whitish spot on costal spot. Hindwings with 3 and 4 stalked (in one wing of one specimen coincident) ; rather dark grey; cilia light fuscous.
British S. E. Africa, Bela Vista, in November (Swierstra) ; two specimens.
XYLORYCTIDAE
Odites cuculans n.sp.
cj $ 15-19 mm. Head and thorax whitish-yellowish. Palpi yellow-whitish, second joint brownish -tinged on basal half. Abdomen pale ochreous-yellowish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, oblique; whitish-yellowish; costal edge sometimes slightly brownish-tinged anteriorly; a blackish dot towards costa in middle, and one on lower angle of cell: cilia whitish-yellowish. Hindwings and cilia whitish- ochreous.
British S. E. Africa, Bela Vista, in November (Swierstra) ; three specimens. I have also in my collection a worn specimen apparently of the same species from Ubangi, French Congo.
Odites incolumis n.sp.
$ 16 mm. Head and thorax white. Palpi white, second joint infuscated except towards apex. Abdomen pale grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen rounded, rather strongly oblique; white; a black dot towards costa near base; stigmata black, plical obliquely beyond first discal, almost equally near second ; a curved subterminal series of several minute groups of black scales in disc; an almost marginal series of small black dots round posterior part of costa and termen: cilia white. Hind- wings pale grey; cilia whitish.
British S. E. Africa, Bela Vista, in November (Swierstra); one specimen. Odites nubeculosa n.sp.
$ 26 mm. Head whitish. Palpi whitish, second joint somewdiat infuscated except apex. Thorax whitish-fuscous. Abdomen whitish. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, little oblique, rounded beneath; fuscous-whitish, with irregularly scattered dark fuscous specks except towards costa; discal stigmata black, a cloudy fuscous spot beneath and slightly beyond second; cloudy dots of suffused dark fuscous scales along termen : cilia whitish. Hindwings and cilia whitish.
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ORNEODIDAE
Orneodes photaula n.sp.
o' 14-15 mm. Head and thorax pale greyish-ochreous mixed with grey, lower part of face whitish. Palpi 3, grey, second joint long, porrected, above with rough projecting white hairscales, terminal joint short, slender, white, with dark grey median band. Abdomen ochreous-whitish irrorated with dark grey, segmental margins white. Forewings pale greyish-ochreous closely irrorated with dark grey; a yellow -ochreous streak along segment 1 from about £, with marginal indications of four undeveloped grey bars, and ter- minated by a dark grey white-margined subterminal bar; on segments 2-6 somewhat darker curved bands at middle and f, edged with white marks, second band on segment 2 narrow and near apex; tips of all segments white preceded by black dots : cilia grey, on margins of bands with oblique white marks. Hind wings with all segments similar to segments 3-6 of forewings.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in February (Swierstra) ; one specimen. Also one in my collection from Johannesburg in January. Recognisable by yellowish streak of first segment of forewings.
GLYPHIPTERYGIDAE
Simaethis gratiosa Meyr.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in January ; Cape Colony, Port St John, in October (Swierstra) ; two specimens, differing from one another and from the original examples (described from the Seychelles) in the development and extent of the fulvous suffusion of forewings, but otherwise apparently similar (neither is in good condition) and justly referable to the same species.
BLASTOBASIDAE
Blastobasis externa n.sp.
$ 17-18 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark fuscous closely and suffusedly irrorated with white. Abdomen grey-whitish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa hardly arched, rather bent towards f , apex pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded; dark ashy-fuscous sprinkled with whitish, broadly streaked with whitish suffusion along margins of cell, vein 1 b, and in disc posteriorly, veins posteriorly obscurely lined with whitish; second discal stigma repre- sented by an obscure spot of dark fuscous ground colour placed in this suffu- sion: cilia light grey, base with some dark fuscous scales. Hindwings grey; cilia light grey.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in December and February (Swierstra); two specimens.
ELACHISTIDAE
Symphoristis n.g.
Head smooth; ocelli small, posterior; tongue developed. Antennae §, in ciliated, basal joint rather flattened and dilated with scales, with strong pecten. Labial palpi moderately long, slender, curved, ascending, terminal joint shorter than second, acute. Maxillary palpi very short, drooping, filiform. Posterior tibiae clothed with very long fine hairs above. Forewings with 2 from angle, 4 absent, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa, 11 from middle. Hindwings f , lanceolate, cilia 2; 2-4 remote, 5 absent, 6 and 7 stalked.
Type ptychospila; also nimbifeva Meyr. is referable here. The genus (which I had not hitherto thought it necessary to separate) differs from Elachista by the separation of vein 6 of forewings.
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Symphoristis ptychospila n.sp.
$ $ q — io mm. Head white. Palpi and thorax white with a few dark fuscous specks. Abdomen light grey. Forewings elongate-lanceolate; pale grey more or less mixed with white and irregularly sprinkled with dark fuscous ; area of fold broadly and very irregularly suffused with white; an oval dark fuscous spot in this representing plical stigma, and one rather smaller and less distinct representing second discal: cilia white speckled with dark fuscous, towards tornus pale greyish. Hindwings grey; cilia pale greyish.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in February and March (Swierstra) ; three specimens.
Proterochyta n.g.
Head with appressed hairs; ocelli posterior; tongue long. Antennae f, in d' ciliated, basal joint elongate, rather swollen, with strong pecten. Labial palpi moderate, slender, smooth, porrected, terminal joint as long as second, pointed. Maxillary palpi rudimentary. Posterior tibiae clothed with long fine hairs above. Forewings with 2 from f , 3 from angle, 4 absent, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa, 11 from middle. Hindwings nearly 1, lanceolate, cilia i|-; 3 from angle, 4 absent, 5 rather approximated, 6 and 7 parallel.
Type epicoena Meyr., erroneously referred hitherto to Elachista ; it is rather a puzzling form, but may perhaps be regarded as a primitive form of this family; the hindwings approach the Oecopborid type.
HYPONOMEUTIDAE
Prays citri Mill.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in January (Swierstra); two specimens. A widely distributed pest of cultivated Citrus, not hitherto recorded from South Africa.
EPERMENIADAE
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Idioglossa triumphalis n.sp.
14 mm. Head pale whitish-bronzy. Palpi bronzy-whitish, rather roughened anteriorly throughout, second joint somewhat expanded towards apex beneath. Antennae over 1, ochreous-whitish. Thorax whitish -ochreous, anteriorly suffused with ochreous-bronzy. Abdomen pale ochreous, with subbasal, antemedian, and subapical transverse lines of fuscous scales. Fore- wings narrow-lanceolate; deep ochreous-yellow ; markings pale golden- metallic more or less edged laterally with coarse scattered dark fuscous scales, viz. small spots on costa at and near base, a quadrate spot in disc at its anterior angle connected with dorsum, an oblong spot in disc before middle and an elongate spot on dorsum beneath it, and rather large sub- quadrate spots in disc at f and f : cilia ochreous-yellowish. Hindwings whitish- ochreous; a small bronzy-ochreous spot on middle of costa, a spot crossing wing at f , and an apical spot, with some coarse scattered golden-metallic and dark fuscous scales between these; cilia whitish-cchreous.
British S. E. Africa, Bela Vista, in November (Swierstra); one specimen.
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Opogona harpalea Meyr.
British S. E. Africa, Bela Vista, in November (Swierstra); one specimen. Described from Aldabra Island, and not hitherto known from the mainland.
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Oinophila cert a n.sp.
£ io -ii mm. Head whitish-ochreous, lower frontal tuft rather light brownish. Palpi fuscous. Antennae ochreous-whitish, base blackish. Thorax whitish-ochreous, patagia blackish. Abdomen ochreous-grey- whitish. Fore- wings narrow-lanceolate, very acute; blackish; a strong irregular-edged whitish-ochreous dorsal streak from base to apex, finely attenuated posteriorly but still very irregular, upper edge indented at f of wing : cilia whitish-ochreous, on costa dark grey. Hindwings light grey; cilia ochreous-grey -whitish.
Transvaal, Pretoria, in December and April (Swierstra); two specimens. Very similar to the Indian oxymoris, but in that species the lower frontal tuft is blackish, and the antennae are largely suffused with blackish on basal half, and have several indistinct narrow grey bands on apical portion.
TINEIDAE
Myrmecozela convallata n.sp.
$ 14 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax ochreous-brown. Abdomen fuscous. Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded; ochreous-brown, with about eight irregular transverse partially coalescing dark fuscous streaks, and some additional marks from costa: cilia dark grey, base spotted with brownish. Hindwings dark purple-grey; cilia grey, with indistinct darker subbasal shade.
Transvaal, Moorddrift, in December (Swierstra); one specimen. Veins 7 and 8 of one forewing are stalked, of the other separate as usual in the genus.
Lysitona n.g.
Head rough-haired; ocelli posterior; tongue rudimentary. Antennae f, in $ simple, basal joint moderate, with projecting tuft of scales anteriorly. Labial palpi moderate, porrected, second joint loosely scaled, with some projecting lateral bristles at apex, terminal joint about as long as second, tolerably pointed. Maxillary palpi short, porrected, loosely scaled. Posterior tibiae clothed with long hairs above. Forewings with rough scale-tufts on surface; 2 from angle, 4 absent, 7 to costa, 11 from before middle. Hindwings f , lanceolate, cilia 2; 2-4 parallel, 5 and 6 stalked, 6 to costa, 7 parallel.
A derivative of Tinea.
Lysitona euryacta n.sp.
<?n mm. Head and thorax white. Palpi dark fuscous, apex of joints white. Abdomen whitish-ochreous irrorated with grey. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded; brownish sprinkled with blackish ; a broad white irregular-edged stripe occu- pying costal half of wing from base to f , costal edge blackish from base to near middle, and with a slight elongate mark of ground colour beyond middle; quadrate grey blotches extending from dorsum to white streak before and beyond middle of dorsum and on tornus, edged with blackish irroration, and a spot on middle of termen: cilia pale brownish -ochreous, towards base with a few blackish specks. Hindwings rather dark grey; cilia light greyish - ochreous.
British S. E. Africa, Bela Vista, in November (Swierstra); one specimen. Crypsithyris insolita n.sp.
<$ 14 mm. Head pale ochreous. Palpi dark fuscous. Thorax pale ochreous, patagia dark fuscous except apex. Abdomen brownish, segmental margins whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched,
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apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded; 2-4 approximated, 5 and 6 short-stalked, 7 and 9 stalked, 8 absent; light ochreous, coarsely and irregu- j larly sprinkled with dark fuscous; costa suffused with dark fuscous anteriorly; an oval subhyaline spot in disc before middle; plical and second discal stigmata approximated, represented by round cloudy dark fuscous spots: cilia pale j ochreous, sprinkled with dark fuscous. Hindwings with 2-7 separate; light grey; cilia pale greyish -ochreous, with indistinct grey median shade.
British S. E. Africa, Bela Vista, in November (Swierstra) ; one specimen.
Phyciodyta n.g.
Head rough-haired; ocelli posterior; tongue obsolete. Antennae §, in serrulate, pubescent, basal joint short, without pecten. Labial palpi moder- ately long, ascending, second joint beneath with very long dense rough projecting tuft and numerous long lateral projecting bristles, terminal joint shorter, slender, pointed. Maxillary palpi short, filiform, porrected. Posterior tibiae clothed with long hairs above. Forewings with numerous small tufts of rough scales; 1 b furcate, 2 from angle, 7 to costa, 7-9 approximated,
11 from before middle, secondary cell well-marked. Hindwings 1, elongate- ovate, cilia § ; 2—7 separate, nearly parallel.
Belongs to the Hapsifera group.
Phyciodyta neritis n.sp.
17-20 mm., o 28 mm. Head whitish-ochreous. Palpi whitish -ochreous, second joint suffused with brownish and irrorated with dark fuscous except apical edge, terminal joint with basal band and supramedian ring of blackish irroration. Thorax whitish-ochreous irrorated with dull greenish. Abdomen rather dark fuscous, anal tuft mixed with whitish-ochreous. Forewings elon- gate, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse-pointed, termen slightly sinuate, oblique; pale greyish-ochreous suffusedly irrorated with dull greenish; some small scattered blackish strigulae along costa; a more or less developed oblique- triangular blackish blotch on base of costa, from which sometimes an irregular blackish streak runs through middle of disc to apex; in $ three oblique dark brown fasciae from costa at middle, and f , reaching § across wing, in obscurely indicated with dull greenish suffusion or obsolete; two or three large cloudy black dots on costa at apex: cilia whitish-ochreous speckled with blackish, towards base tinged with greenish, on lower half of termen more tinged with ochreous. Flindwings dark grey; cilia light grey, with darker subbasal line.
Cape Colony, Port St John, in October (Swinney); four specimens. Hapsifera atrisecta n.sp.
$ 21-22 mm. Head, palpi, and