292 Annals of the South African Museum. 



suffused with light grey on lower part of termen, becoming darker 

 towards tornus. Hiudwings light greyish-ochreous ; cilia white. 

 ORANGE FKEE STATE, Smithfield (Kanuemeyer) ; one specimen. 



ASAPHARCHA, n. g. 



Head with appressed scales, sidetufts loosely raised ; ocelli small, 

 posterior ; tongue developed. Antennae , in <$ serrulate, shortly 

 ciliated, basal joint moderate, without pecten. Labial palpi long, 

 curved, ascending, second joint reaching base of antennae, much 

 thickened with dense appressed scales, terminal joint as long as 

 second, moderate, acute. Maxillary palpi very short, filiform, appressed 

 to tongue. Anterior tarsi moderate, rather longer than tibiae ; posterior 

 tibiae clothed with dense rough scales above. Forewings with 16 long- 

 furcate, 2 from angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa, 11 from middle. 

 Hindwiugs 1, trapezoidal-ovate, termen faintly sinuate, cilia ^ ; 3 and 

 4 connate, 5 rather approximated, 6 and 7 approximated towards base. 



Perhaps related to Thalamarchis. 



ASAPHARCHA STRIGIFERA, n. sp. 



$ 9 . 17-18 mm. Head and palpi ochreous-yellow, base of palpi 

 with a few dark fuscous scales. Thorax ochreous-whitish, anterior 

 margin irregularly marked with dark fuscous suffusion. Abdomen 

 fuscous. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termeu 

 slightly rounded, somewhat oblique ; ochreous-whitish, costal edge 

 ochreous-yellow ; irregularly strewn dark fuscous transverse strigulae 

 arranged along costa from base to about -f , and forming a sparse 

 irregular group towards median third of dorsum, and a denser patch 

 suffused in centre between cell and termen ; stigmata dark fuscous, 

 plical somewhat elongate, beneath first discal : cilia whitish-yellowish 

 barred with dark fuscous irroratiou. Hindwings rather dark grey ; 

 cilia whitish-yellowish, with faint greyish subbasal shade. 



TRANSVAAL, junction of Crocodile and Marico rivers, in February 

 (R. Tucker) ; two specimens. 



ORNEODIDAE. 



I have set forth elsewhere (Exotic Micro-lepidoptera, vol. i, p. 555) 

 the evidence on which I now assign this family to the Tineina, as 

 a development from the Copromorphidae. 



