284 Annals of the South African Museum. 



CATHARODES, 11. Sp. 



<$ . 22 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-white with a few black 

 scales. Palpi white irrorated with black. Antennal ciliations nearly 

 1. Abdomen whitish, apical half except anal tuft suffused with grey. 

 Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex tolerably 

 pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; ochreous-white, irregularly 

 sprinkled with black, mostly towards margins ; an irregular blackish 

 transverse subbasal streak, shortly extended along dorsum ; stigmata 

 represented by small irregular spots of dense black irroration, plical 

 beneath first discal and touching it, second discal larger and transverse, 

 reaching to near dorsum : cilia ochreous-white with a few black specks. 

 Hindwings whitish-grey ; cilia ochreous-whitish. 



CAPE COLONY, Gt. Winthoek, 4500 ft ; one specimen. 



GEN. COMPSOLECHIA Meyr. 



COMPSOLECHIA PERMAGNA, 11. Sp. 



$ . 80 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax whitish-ochreous, with a few 

 light brownish specks. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly 

 arched, apex obtuse-pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; whitish- 

 ochreous, with scattered light brownish scales ; discal stigmata irregular, 

 light ferruginous -brown, with two or three blackish scales ; a cloudy 

 light ferruginous-brown line along termen, with a few blackish scales : 

 cilia light ochreous-grey, on costa whitish-ochreous. Hindwiugs 

 considerably over 1, termeu slightly sinuate ; pale grey ; cilia whitish- 

 grey-ochreous. 



TRANSVAAL, junction of Limpopo and Marico rivers (Eriksson) ; 

 one specimen. 



GEN. DICHOMERIS Hub. 



DlCHOMERIS FLUITANS, n. Sp. 



<^ . 16 mm. Head grey, sidetufts tinged with whitish-ochreous. 

 Palpi dark grey slightly speckled with whitish, second joint with 

 scales rather expanded above towards apex and long projecting apical 

 tuft beneath, terminal joint longer than second, whitish, anterior edge 

 dark fuscous. Thorax pale ochreous-yellowish dorsally tinged with 

 grey, shoulders dark fuscous. Abdomen grey, anal tuft whitish- 

 ochreous. Forewiugs elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex 

 pointed, termen faintly sinuate, extremely oblique ; light ochreous- 

 yellowish, dorsal half suffused with brownish-ochreous ; a very small 



