Descriptions of South African Micro Lepidopiera. ~2.11 



GEN. CNEPHASIA Curt. 

 CNEPHASIA MACROSTOMA, u. sp. 



. 17-18 mm. 9. 14-Ui mm. Head, palpi, aud thorax dark 

 grey sprinkled with whitish, palpi 5. Abdomen grey. Forewings 

 elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse-pointed, 

 termen slightly sinuate, oblique; grey sprinkled with whitish; a slender 

 undefined irregular ochreous subcostal streak from base to \ r ; irregular 

 ill-defined light browuish-ochreous transverse fasciae sprinkled with 

 blackish before and beyond middle and from | of costa to tomus, in 

 <$ paler aud hardly defined: cilia grey irrorated with whitish. Hind- 

 wings light grey, obscurely darker-marbled ; cilia pale greyish. 



CAPE COLONY, Gt. Wiuthoek, 4500 ft., and Hottentot-Holland Mts. 

 (Barnard); four specimens. The markings are obscure and ill-defined, 

 but the species is recognisable by the very long palpi. 



EUCOSMIDAE. 



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DOLIOCHASTIS, n. 



Palpi moderate, porrected, second joint densely rough-scaled above 

 and beneath, terminal joint very short. Antennae in serrulate, 

 minutely ciliated. Thorax without crest Forewiugs with 3 from 

 angle, 7 to tenneu. Hindwiugs with 3 and 4 separate, nearly approxi- 

 mated and parallel towards base, 5 rather approximated, (J and 7 

 closely approximated towards base. 



A derivative of Encosma. 



DOLIOCHASTIS HOMOGRAPTA, n. sp. 



. 13-15 mm. Head, palpi, thorax and abdomen grey. Fore- 

 wings elongate, posteriorly somewhat dilated, costa slightly arched, 

 Avithout fold, apex obtuse, termeii nearly straight, somewhat oblique ; 

 grey ; costa dark fuscous, marked with pairs of obscure whitish 

 strigulae ; dorsum with some dark fuscous strigulae ; basal patch 

 more or less mixed with darker, edged by an obscure dark fuscous 

 irregular streak obtusely angulated in middle ; central fascia narrow, 

 very irregular-edged, suffused, oblique, dark fuscous ; several oblique 

 leaden strigae from posterior costal strigulae ; ocellus laterally edged 

 by dull leaden marks reaching half across wing, anterior adjacent to 

 central fascia, posterior almost terminal, preceded by three adjacent 

 black dots : cilia grey. Hiudwiugs and cilia grey. 



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