ANNALS 



OF THE 



SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM 



(VOL. XVII.) 



1. Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera. - - By E. 



MEYRICK, B.A., F.E.S. 



THE following species are described from specimens forwarded to me 

 through the kindness of Dr. L. Pt'riuguey ; the types are in the South 

 African Museum. 



PTEROPHORIDAE. 

 GEN. TKICHOPTILUS Walsgh. 



TRICHOPTILUS VIDUUS, u. sp. 



^ 9 14-15 mm. Head and thorax fuscous with some whitish 

 scales. Palpi fuscous, apex of joints white. Abdomen ochreous-grey, 

 with lateral row of white spots. Forewings cleft to middle, segments 

 slender ; fuscous irrorated with darker ; a blackish dot in disc at \, and 

 two transversely placed at base of cleft ; narrow irregular white 

 transverse bars on both segments at \ and f of their length : cilia grey 

 mixed with blackish towards base, with white spots on margins of 

 markings and above and below apex of each segment, on dorsum with 

 blackish scale-projections between these, torual white patch largest. 

 Hindwings dark fuscous, third segment grey irrorated with dark 

 fuscous ; cilia fuscous, on dorsum with a rather small blackish scale- 

 projection at f and a few white scales before this. 



CAPE COLONY, Hottentots Holland Mts., 4000 ft., Caledou 

 (H. K. Barnard) ; two specimens. 



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