Descriptions of South African Micro- Lepidoptem. 297 



third longer, more or less incurved, touching apex of post-torual 

 streak, fourth short, direct, fifth running to termeu above middle ; 

 erect praetorual and post-torual streaks tinged with violet-golden 

 joined by three black bars usually interrupted to form six spots ; a 

 short slender streak on apical edge: cilia whitish-grey, basal half 

 within a bronzy line silvery-metallic. Hiudwiiigs grey ; cilia whitish- 

 grey. 



CAPE COLONY, Table Mountain (2500 ft.), Zonder End Peak 

 (3600 ft.), Hottentot-Holland Mts. (4000 ft.), from November to 

 March (Barnard) ; ten specimens. 



G-EN. CHEYSOCENTRIS Meyr. 



CHRYSOCENTRIS URANIA, n. sp. 



$ . 18-14 mm. Head light yellow-ochreous (rubbed). Palpi 

 whitish-ochreous, second joint with three blackish rings, with long 

 roughly projecting whitish-ochreous hair-scales beneath, anterior end 

 of terminal joint blackish. Thorax pale bronzy-ochreous transversely 

 barred with blackish (rubbed). Abdomen blackish, segrnental margins 

 in 9 whitish. Forewiugs elongate, posteriorly rather dilated, costa 

 geutly arched, apex obtuse, termeu obliquely rounded ; ochreous -bronze; 

 numerous small blue or violet-metallic spots partly edged with blackish, 

 viz. a series of about eight transverse marks from costa, posteriorly 

 becoming pale ochreous on costa, about eighteen variable spots arranged 

 in three irregular longitudinal series in disc, aud a terminal series of 

 clots : cilia pale ochreous, on basal half ochreous-brouze, suffusedly 

 barred with blackish. Hinclwings black ; in $ several quadrate white 

 spots in disc, very obscurely indicated in $ ; several small white spots 

 towards apex, aud a series along termeu, in $ distinct, in <$ more 

 suffused ; cilia grey, with blackish subbasal shade, obscurely barred 

 with whitish suffusion. 



NATAL, Inchanga and Krautzkop, in November (Barnard) ; three 

 specimens. 



ELACHISTIDAE. 

 GEN. ELACHISTA Treitsch. 



ELACHISTA MERIMNAEA, n. sp. 



^ . 11 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax white. Abdomen light grey. 

 Forewings lanceolate; white, with scattered fuscous specks, denser 



