Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera. 5 



GEN. DICHOMEEIS Hiibu. 



DlCHOMERIS AULOTOMA, 11. Sp. 



c. 20 mm. Head whitish, face and centre of crown tinged with 

 fuscous. Palpi white, second joint with long dense tuft beneath and 

 rough projecting scales towards apex above, dark fuscous except along 

 apical edge, terminal joint with anterior edge dark fuscous. Antennal 

 ciliatious 1. Thorax white, patagia fuscous. Forewings elongate, 

 narrow, costa slightly arched, faintly sinuate towards middle, apex 

 pointed, termen faintly sinuate, very oblicpue ; rather dark fuscous ; a 

 white streak along costa from base nearly to ^, and a subcostal streak 

 from beyond extremity of this to costa before apex ; a white subdorsal 

 streak rising from base of dorsum and running to termen beneath apex, 

 posteriorly somewhat ragged : cilia fuscous, white on extremity of both 

 streaks and towards base on lower part of termen. Hindwiugs and 

 cilia grey. 



CAPE COLONY, Capetown, Roudebosch ; one specimen, dated Novem- 

 ber, 1868. This interesting and very distinct species is nearly allied to 

 the European marginetta. 



OECOPHORIDAE. 



PICKOGENES, n. g. 



Head with appressed scales, sidetufts small ; ocelli present ; tongue 

 developed. Antennae |, in moderately ciliated and also clothed with 

 pubescence above, basal joint moderate, with pecten. Labial palpi 

 long, curved, ascending, second joint reaching base of antennae, 

 thickened with appressed scales, rough towards apex beneath, terminal 

 joint much shorter than second, thickened with scales, somewhat loose 

 anteriorly, pointed. Maxillary palpi very short. Posterior tibiae 

 clothed with long hairs above. Forewings with 2 and 3 approximated 

 from angle, 4 absent, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to termen, 11 from middle. 

 Hindwings 1, elongate-ovate, cilia 1 ; 3 and 4 stalked, 5 rather 

 approximated to 6, 6 and 7 parallel. 



Near Heterozyga. 



PlCROGENES BACTROSPILA, n. Sp. 



$ . 15mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen jwhitish-ochreous. 

 Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa moderately arched, apex 



