Descriptions of Soidli African Micro-Lepidoptera. 15 



GEN. MELASINA Boisd. 



MELASINA INDIGENA, n. sp. 



. 20-21 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, and abdomen dark 

 fuscous ; palpi very short, slender, rough-haired at base ; anteunal 

 pectinations 5. Forewings elongate, moderate, costa moderately 

 arched, faintly sinuate in middle, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, 

 rather oblique ; dark fuscous, very obscurely darker-strigulated : cilia 

 fuscous. Hiudwings dark fuscous ; cilia grey, with dark fuscous sub- 

 basal shade. 



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

 (Barnard) ; two specimens. 



PARAPTICA, n. g. 



Head loosely rough-haired ; ocelli absent ; tongue very short. 

 Antennae f , in $ somewhat stout, simple, basal joint moderate, with 

 strong pecten. Labial palpi long, porrected, clothed with long dense 

 loosely-projecting scales, joints concealed. Maxillary palpi obsolete. 

 Posterior tibiae clothed with very long fine hairs above. Forewings 

 with small tufts of scales on surface ; 16 furcate, 2 from angle, 3 and 

 4 approximated at base, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa, 11 from before 

 middle. Hindwings 1, elongate-ovate, almost pointed, cilia i ; 2-4 

 parallel, 5 and 6 nearly approximated at base, 7 parallel. 



Allied to Hapsifera. 



PAKAPTICA CONCINERATA, u. sp. 



$ . 20-23 mm. Head white. Palpi white, irrorated externally with 

 dark fuscous. Thorax white, sprinkled with blackish, shoulders with 

 spot of blackish suffusion. Abdomen light fuscous, anal tuft pale 

 greyish-ochreous- Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, 

 apex tolerably pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; white finely 

 irrorated with dark fuscous, appearing greyish ; markings formed of 

 black irroratiou with more or less light brown suffusion ; a mark 

 beneath costa near base, and an oblique mark beneath this in disc ; a 

 dot beneath fold at \ of wing, and several along costa ; stigmata 

 represented by irregular roundish spots, plical slightly beyond first 

 discal ; a slightly curved transverse line towards apex ; some marginal 

 dots round apex and termen : cilia whitish irrorated with grey and 

 blackish. Hindwings grey ; cilia whitish-ochreous-grey. 



CAPE COLONY, Dunbrody, in January and March (Fath. A. Vogt) ; 

 two specimens. 



