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10. Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera. By E.MEYRICK 



B.A., F.E.S. 



VI.* 



THE types of the following- species, sent me by Dr. L. Pcriuguey, are 

 in the South African Museum. 



PTEROPHORIDAE. 



GEN. TEICHOPTILUS Wals. 



TKICHOPTILUS FESTUS, n. sp. 



( . It! mm. Head and thorax reddish-ochreous, posterior margin 

 of thorax snow-white. Palpi ochreous, towards base whitish. Abdo- 

 men grey, with a white subdorsal stripe on each segment, more or less 

 blackish'edged beneath, two basal segments wholly snow-white. Fore- 

 wings slightly broader than in routjritaUs ; reddish -ochreous, costal 

 half suffused with i-eddish-fuscous except towards apex ; small groups 

 of whitish scales towards dorsum at ~, and in disc before cleft ; a bar 

 of white irroration crossing J>oth segments at ^ of their length, and 

 another more defined at -? : cilia dark grey, with white patches on 

 segmeutal bars and some scattered white hair-scales, on lower margin 

 of first segment and upper margin of second with several scattered 

 black scales on median third, several small blackish patches separated 

 by narrow white bars round apex of both segments, and four sub- 

 quadrate blackish patches on lower margin of second between base 

 and second white bar. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia grey, without 

 black scales on dorsum. 



CAPE COLONY, Capetown, in January (Barnard) ; one specimen. 

 The example is in fine condition, and the absence of black scales on 

 dorsum of hindwings is natural. 



: The previous papers of this series have appeared in vol. v, p. 349 (1909),. 

 vol. v, p. 411 (1910), vol. x, p. 53 (1912), vol. x, p. 243 (1914), and vol. xvii, p. 1 

 (1917). 



[Throughout this paper, for " Winthoek " read " Winterhoek." The Great 

 Winterhoek is the culminating peak of the Witzenberg Range in the Tulbagh 

 District of the Cape, and one of several localities which have been visited for 

 the purpose inter alia of determining the character of the Microlepidopterous 

 fauna at high altitudes. The specimens should be credited to Mr. E. M. 

 Lightfoot, ED.] 



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