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cloudy blackish mark on costa beyond base of cleft, and black dots on 

 extremities of veins '2, o, 7 and 10 : cilia ochreous-whitish, on costa 

 with two dark grey patches, within cleft and on dorsum mostly 

 suffused with dark grey, especially beneath segments towards apex. 

 Hindwings dark grey ; cilia light ochreous-grey. 



CAPE COLONY, Gt. Winthoek, 4500 ft. ; three specimens. The 

 narrower second segment of forewiugs and dark grey dorsal cilia 

 distinguish this species from lienigianus. 



TORTRICIDAE. 



GEN. TORTKIX L. 



ToRTRIX SPORADIAS, 11. sp. 



. 15mm. Head, palpi, and thorax whitish-ochreous. Abdomen 

 whitish. Forewings elongate, slightly dilated, costa slightly arched, 

 without fold, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, oblique ; whitish- 

 ochreous, thinly strewn with small scattered groups of dark fuscous 

 specks : cilia whitish-ochreous. Hiudwings and cilia whitish. 



CAPE COLONY, Vryburg (J. Brown) ; one specimen. 



TORTRIX BIFORMIS, n. <p. 



(J . 15-17 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax whitish-grey-ochreous 

 more or less wholly irrorated and suffused with grey. Antenna] 

 filiations 1. Abdomen grey, anal tuft yellow-whitish. Forewings 

 suboblong, costa slightly arched, without fold, apex obtuse, termen 

 almost straight, oblique : greyish-ochreous : cilia whitish. Hindwiiigs 

 with o and 4 sometimes coincident ; grey ; cilia whitish. 



9 . 18 mm. Forewings pointed, termeu slightly sinuate, very 

 oblique ; pale greyish-ochreous. Hindwings pale grey ; cilia w T hitish. 

 CAPE COLONY, Gt. Winthoek, 4500 feet ; eight specimens. Closely 

 allied and very similar to the European rusticana, but distinguished 

 by the more oblique termeu of forewings and whitish cilia. Of the 

 six male specimens sent three have veins o and 4 of hindwings connate, 

 as is normal in the genus, and the other three have them coincident, 

 the wings in each specimen being alike on both sides ; this is a very 

 singular and remarkable case of variation, but the specimens are 

 unquestionably all the same species. One female has veins 3 and 4 

 of hindwings coincident ; the other specimen has lost its hindwiugs. 



