Descriptions of South African Micro- Lepidoptera. 



Forewings elongate, rather narrow, posteriorly slightly dilated, costa 

 gently arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, oblique; light 

 brown ; costal edge dotted with fuscous and dark fuscous, with four 

 small fuscous spots on posterior half ; dorsal area irregularly clouded 

 with fuscous and mixed with dark fuscous, appearing to form very 

 undefined darker blotches towards middle and before tornus ; a 

 bisiuuate black streak from middle of disc to apex, thickest beyond its 

 middle, with a slender branch running from the thickening to termen 

 below middle : cilia grey mixed with darker and sprinkled with whitish 

 points. Hindwiugs and cilia grey. 



NATAL, Durban (Marley) ; two specimens. I am now disposed to 

 think that I was wrong in referring any African examples to ejectana, 

 and that they may perhaps have been the present or an allied 

 species. 



GELECHIADAE. 



GEN. GELECHIA Zell. 



GELECHIA TRISCELIS, n. sp. 



9. 17 mm. Head white. Palpi white, base of second joint and 

 two bands of terminal joint black. Thorax white, shoulders and a 

 narrow dorsal stripe widely furcate posteriorly black. Abdomen 

 whitish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex 

 pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; white ; markings black ; a 

 small mark on base of costa ; an oblique triangular spot beyond this, 

 its apex just touching anterior angle of a trapezoidal blotch on dorsum 

 before middle ; a semioval spot on costa before middle ; an elongate 

 spot in disc beyond middle, with a dot beneath its anterior extremity ; 

 a spot on costa at f , and a small spot on tornus opposite ; small spots 

 in middle of termeu and on costa before apex: cilia grey (imperfect). 

 Hindwings and cilia grey. 



NATAL, Durban, in April (Marley) ; one specimen. Singularly 

 distinct and conspicuous. 



GELECHIA SARCOGRAPHA, n. sp. 



($. 16 mm. Head ochreous-whitish. Palpi ochreous-whitish, 

 extreme base of second joint dark fuscous, anterior edge of terminal 

 joint dark fuscous except towards base. Thorax dark grey, with a broad 

 whitish-ochreous dorsal stripe edged on sides with black. Abdomen 

 grey. Forewiugs elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse- 

 pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; dark grey, somewhat mixed 



