286 Annals of the South African Museum. 



OECOPHORIDAE. 



GEN. TANYZANCLA Meyr. 

 TANYZANCLA DIORYCTA, u. sp. 



cJ. 16-17 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax greyish-fulvous. Antennal 

 ciliations 3. Abdomen dark grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, 

 costa slightly arched, apex obtuse-pointed, term en nearly straight, 

 oblique ; deep brownish-fulvous, sometimes variably and suffusedly 

 mixed with grey ; a triangular dark grey blotch on dorsum beyond 

 middle, reaching more than half across wing, anteriorly edged by a 

 fine white line ; a cloudy irregular dark grey streak from costa at f to 

 apex of this blotch, preceded on costa by a slight whitish mark ; au 

 oval blotch of ground-colour or light yellow-ochreous in disc above 

 tornus outlined except above with whitish suffusion or a white line and 

 then with dark grey ; sometimes an apical blotch of light yellowish 

 suffusion : cilia rather dark grey, base somewhat mixed with brownish - 

 fulvous. Hindwings rather dark gTey ; cilia grey. 



CAPE COLONY, G-t. Winthoek, 4500 ft. ; four specimens. Allied 

 to chalinitis. 



TANYZANCLA SEMISTRICTA, n. sp. 



. '21 mm. Head and thorax pale greyish-ochreous. Palpi 

 ochreous-whitish sprinkled with fuscous. Abdomen grey-whitish, 

 segments with basal ochreous bauds. Forewing elongate, rather 

 narrow, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen very obliquely 

 rounded ; pale greyish-ochreous with scattered dark fuscous specks ; a 

 shcrt slender dark fuscous longitudinal streak from base of costa ; a 

 broad irregular dark fuscous longitudinal submedian streak from base to 

 apex, finely attenuated towards base, irregularly narrowed on apical 

 portion, upper edge with slight prominences indicating discal stigmata 

 and finely edged with white between these, beneath with slender irre- 

 gular branches above and below fold to tornus ; slender irregular dorsal 

 and subdorsal dark fuscous streaks from base, meeting just before 

 tornus : cilia ochreous-grey-whitish. Hindwings pale greyish ; cilia 

 grey-whitish. 



CAPE COLONY, Capetown, in May (Barnard) ; one specimen. 



GTEN. PROTOMACHA Meyr. 



PROTOMACHA SOSIGONA, n. sp. 



$ . 21 mm. Head white, sidetufts and back of crown tinged with 

 pale ochreous. Palpi fuscous, terminal joint whitish posteriorly. Thorax 



