280 Annals of the South African Museum. 



GELECHIADAE. 



GEN. PYCNOSTOLA Meyr. 

 PYCNOSTOLA PERLUSTRATA, u. sp. 



$ . 14-16 mm. Head pale grey, sidetufts whitish. Palpi ochreous- 

 grey, terminal joint whitish, grey anteriorly. Thorax light grey. 

 Abdomen grey, anal tuft whitish. Forewiugs narrowly elongate- 

 lanceolate ; fulvous-ochreous, veins and margins streaked with light 

 grey sprinkled with dark fuscous ; an indistinct dark fuscous dot 

 beneath costa towards base ; stigmata indistinct, dark fuscous, plical 

 very obliquely before first discal : cilia light grey, towards base 

 somewhat mixed with white and sprinkled with dark fuscous. Hind- 

 wings and cilia light grey. 



CAPE COLONY, Frausch Hoek, in June (Barnard) ; two specimens. 

 Resembles illuminata, but smaller, and immediately distinguished by 

 grey cilia of hind wings. 



PYCNOSTOLA OECONOMICA, n. sp. 



<$ $ . 18-19 mm. Head and thorax white, more or less speckled 

 with fuscous. Palpi pale brownish sprinkled with dark fuscous, tuft 

 long, edge white, terminal joint white speckled with dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen whitish irrorated with fuscous. Forewings elongate, very 

 narrow, costa slightly arched, apex acute, ternien faintly sinuate, 

 extremely oblique; fuscous, suffused and irregularly mixed with 

 whitish irroration, and more or less streaked with pale yellow- 

 ochreous in disc ; stigmata blackish, discal approximated, plical very 

 obliquely before first discal : cilia ochreous-whitish mixed with fuscous. 

 Hiudwiugs grey ; cilia whitish-ochreous-grey. 



CAPE COLONY, Matroosberg, 3500 ft., in November (Lightfoot) ; 

 two specimens. 



PYCNOSTOLA CELERIS, n. sp. 



cj $ . 20-22 mm. Head and thorax white, shoulders sprinkled 

 with grey. Palpi ochreous-whitish sprinkled with dark fuscous, tuft 

 long, edge white, terminal joint white, with anterior edge dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen white, more or less suffused with grey. Forewings elongate, 

 narrow, costa slightly arched, apex pointed, termen slightly sinuate, 

 extremely oblique ; whitish ( ^ ) or pale yellow-ochreous ( ? ), more or 

 less speckled irregularly with fuscous, especially along margins ; stig- 

 mata small, indistinct, ferruginous-brownish, discal approximated, 



