Descriptions of South African Micro- Lepidoptera. 293- 



GEN. OENEODES Latr. 



ORNEODES HABROPHILA, u. sp. 



<$ . 14 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen whitish ; palpi 2^,. 

 porrected, second joint with rough projecting hairscales above and 

 beneath, terminal joint half second. Forewings whitish ; faint 

 indications of ochreous-yellowish fasciae before and beyond middle, 

 principally on cilia ; a narrow grey fascia sprinkled with blackish 

 crossing segments 3-6 at f of wing, principally marked on cilia, 

 slenderest on 3 : cilia otherwise whitish. Hindwiugs whitish ; an 

 ochreous-yellowish fascia crossing segments 2-6 at , narrowest on 2,. 

 slightly fuscous-edged posteriorly ; cilia whitish, on fascia yellowish. 



ZULULAND, Eshowe (Marley) ; one specimen. Also NATAL, Pine- 

 town, in January (Leigh), one specimen in my collection ; expanse 

 16 mm., forewiugs with distinct but undefined median fascia of 

 ochreous-yellow suffusion, fascia of hindwiugs more strongly edged 

 with fuscous. 



ORNEODES BRACHYZONA, u. sp. 



cf. 18 mm. Head white. Palpi 2, subascending, white, second 

 joint thickened with scales projecting beneath towards apex, suffused 

 with pale ochreous with a lateral streak of dark fuscous irroration 

 except towards apex, terminal joint half second. Thorax grey, 

 anterior third ochreous-white. Abdomen ochreous-whitish, two basal 

 segments grey, third dark fuscous preceded by some white irroration. 

 Forewiugs white ; a blackish-grey basal patch extending on costa 

 to |- and on dorsum to ~ ; a blackish dot on costa at ^ ; a blackish- 

 grey fascia crossing segments 2-5 before middle, connected on fifth 

 with basal patch ; a narrow curved yellow-ochreous median fascia 

 crossing wing just beyond this, slightly sprinkled with blackish-grey; 

 a narrow irregular rather curved blackish-grey fascia mixed with 

 whitish crossing segments 2-6 at f, completed on first segment by 

 a yellow-ochreous spot sprinkled with grey ; an ochreous-yellowish 

 grey-sprinkled dot on costa at ; a blackish dot on each segment before 

 tip : cilia white, on antemedian and postmedian fasciae blackish-grey. 

 Hiudwings white ; base suffused with blackish-grey ; transverse series 

 of small yellowish spots sprinkled with blackish at ^ and -|, a series of 

 blackish dots before these, two between them, and one beyond them 

 towards tip ; cilia white. 



CAPE COLONY, Abraham's Kraal, in April (Mrs. v. d. Bijl) ; one 

 specimen. 



