Descriptions of South African, Micro-Lepidoptera. 13 



LYONETIADAE. 



GEN. HIEROXESTIS Meyr. 



HlEROXBSTIS INDISCRETA, U. Sp. 



$. 18-19 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax bronzy-ochreous. Abdomen 

 light greyish-ochreous. Forewiugs narrow-lanceolate, apex produced, 

 acute ; bronzy-ochreous : cilia pale ochreous. Hiudwings brassy- 

 whitish-ochreous, more whitish towards base ; cilia whitish-ochreous. 



CAPE COLONY, Capetown, in January ; two specimens. 







NEPTICULIDAE. 



GEN. NEPTICULA Heyd. 



NEPTICULA PORPHYEEUTA, u. sp. 



4mm. Head orange-yellow, collar white. Antennae dark grey, 

 eyecaps white. Thorax shining purplish-grey. Abdomen dark grey. 

 Forewings lanceolate ; light shining bronzy-grey mixed with purplish ; 

 a narrow slightly oblique silvery white fascia at ; apical area beyond 

 this wholly deep purple : cilia dark grey, round apex suffused with 

 deep purple on basal half, with a silvery-white basal dot on dorsal 

 extremity of fascia. Hindwiugs and cilia dark grey. 



NATAL, Durban (Marley) ; two specimens. 



TINEIDAE. 



GEN. TINEA Liu. 



TINEA OBNOXIA, n. sp. 



^ . 22mm. Head whitish-ochreous. (Labial palpi broken.) An- 

 tennae dark fuscous. Thorax dark purplish-fuscous. Abdomen 

 fuscous. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex 

 obtuse, termeu rounded, rather strongly oblique ; dark purplish- 

 fuscous : cilia rather lighter. Hiudwings rather dark purplish-bron/ y- 

 fuscous ; cilia greyish, whitish-tinged towards tips. 



CAPE COLONY, Dunbrody, in March (Fath. A. Vogt) ; one specimen. 

 Allied to oenopis, but larger, and at once distinguished by the dark 

 antennae. 



