Desertions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera. 7 



CRYPTOLECHIA XANTHOSARCA, n. sp. 



c?. 27mm. Head grey, face centrally suffused with whitish, hairs 

 of crown forming two projecting tufts between antennae. Palpi rosy, 

 upper part of second joint, and terminal joint except apex suffused 

 with grey. Thorax grey, slightly crimson-tinged. Abdomen grey. 

 Forewings elongate, moderate, posteriorly dilated, costa moderately 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen rounded, rather oblique ; light dull 

 crimson-purplish, costal edge suffused with light crimson ; an irregular 

 suffused light yellowish patch extending along dorsum from near base 

 to about |, and reaching about |- across wing, ground colour darker 

 above this ; discal stigmata represented by faint darker suffusion, 

 plical by a small suffused pale dull crimson spot within the yellow 

 patch : cilia light dull crimson. Hiudwings dark grey ; cilia grey. 



TRANSVAAL, Johannesburg, in February (Feltham) ; one specimen. 

 Allied to roseofiavida, but much larger, duller, and less distinctly 

 marked. 



AEEOCOSMA, n. g. 



Head smooth ; ocelli present ; tongue developed. Antennae f, in < 

 simple, basal joint very elongate, without pecten. Labial palpi mode- 

 rate, curved, ascending, second joint hardly reaching base of antennae, 

 with appressed scales, slightly rough beneath, terminal joint half 

 second, scaled, acute. Maxillary palpi rudimentary. Posterior tibiae 

 clothed with hairs above. Forewings with 2 from near angle, 7 and 8 

 stalked, 7 to costa, 11 from before middle. Hindwiugs under 1, ovate- 

 lanceolate, cilia over 1 ; 3 and 4 connate, 5-7 nearly parallel ; in $ 

 with long dense subcostal hairpeucil from base covered by forewings. 



Allied to Diocosma. 



AREOCOSMA ORSOBELA, n. sp. 



<$ . 13 mm. Head and palpi ochreous-whitish. Thorax whitish- 

 ochreous, faintly rosy-tinged, with central and lateral stripes tinged 

 with grey. Abdomen grey-whitish. Forewings elongate, rather 

 narrow, costa moderately arched, apex acute, termen faintly sinuate, 

 extremely oblique ; rather dark brownish-grey ; a rather broad straight 

 whitish-ochreous median streak partially tinged with rosy from base 

 to apex, with a fine black dash on its upper margin at f (probably 

 representing first discal stigma) ; a whitish-ochreous line suffused 

 with pale rosy along basal third of dorsum ; some whitish-ochreous 

 suffusion, slightly rosy-tinged, extending along dorsum from beyond 

 middle to toruus : cilia greyish, mixed with dark fuscous towards 



