"278 Ann at s of the South African, Museum. 



TRANSVAAL, junction of Crocodile and Marico rivers, in February 

 (R. Tucker) ; six specimens. Also seen from RHODESIA, Salisbury 

 (Janse). 



GEN. EUCOSMA Hiib. 



EUCOSMA QUERULA, Meyr. 



CAPE COLONY, Capetown, in May and June (Lightfoot) ; NATAL, 

 Pinetown, in February (Leigh). Described from New Zealand 

 specimens ; it is, however, a discordant species in the New Zealand 

 fauna, and may therefore not improbably have been introduced into 

 that country from South Africa. 



EUCOSMA LOCHMAEA, n. sp. 



. 20-22 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark purplish-ashy-fuscous. 

 Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, posteriorly somewhat dilated, 

 costa gently arched, without fold, apex obtuse, termeu straight, rather 

 oblique; dark fuscous, almost wholly covered with suffused confluent 

 dark purplish-leaden transverse striation from base to a narrow 

 irregular somewhat curved rather oblique central fascia of ground- 

 colour ; four pairs of oblique dark purplish-leaden strigulae from 

 posterior half of costa, running into a fasciate blotch limiting ocellus 

 anteriorly ; a dark purplish-leaden streak along termeu, preceded on 

 lower half by four elongate black dots : cilia dark purple-grey, 

 sprinkled with dark fuscous. Hindwiugs with 3 and 4 stalked; grey ; 

 cilia grey. 



NATAL, Durban (Mar ley) ; four specimens, bred in June from larvae 

 feeding in pods of "sugar-bush,"' presumably a Leguminous shrub. 



EUCOSMA TENAX, u. sp. 



r$ ? . 19-20 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax in <^ mixed with 

 ochreous, grey, and- dark fuscous, in $ ferruginous. Antennal 

 ciliations in <$ nearly 2. Abdomen dark grey. Forewings elongate, 

 posteriorly dilated, costa slightly arched, in <j? more strongly anteriorly, 

 in $ with moderate fold from base to |, apex obtuse, termeu 

 nearly straight, somewhat oblique ; ochreous-whitish ; markings deep 

 ferruginous, in <$ much mixed with grey and strigulated with blackish, 

 in 9 with only a few grey and black scales ; basal patch moderate, 

 edge in nearly straight, little oblique, in $ more oblique, obtusely 



