Descriptions of South African Micro- Lepidopt&ra. 301 



ENSCEPASTRA PLAGIOPA, n. sp. 



$ 9 11-13 mm. Head and thorax grey, suft'usedly mixed with 

 white. Palpi grey sprinkled with white. Abdomen whitish-grey. 

 Forewiugs narrowly elongate-lanceolate, apex rather produced ; grey, 

 closely and suffusedly irrorated with white, in <$ sometimes almost 

 wholly whitish ; plical and first discal stigmata distinct, blackish, 

 plical obliquely anterior : cilia ochreous-whitish, in ? greyish-tinged. 

 Hindwings pale grey ; cilia ochreous-whitish. 



CAPE COLONY, Table Mountain, in February (Barnard) ; four 

 specimens. 



PLUTELLIDAE. 

 GEN. PISINIDEA Butl. 



PlSINIDEA EXSUPERANS, U. Sp. 



J . 18 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax fuscous suft'usedly irrorated 

 with whitish, forehead without projecting tuft, palpi 6. Abdomen 

 fuscous, segmental margins whitish. Forewiugs elongate, costa gently 

 arched, apex obtuse-pointed, termen nearly straight, rather strongly 

 oblique; fuscous finely and suft'usedly irrorated with whitish, with a 

 few scattered dark fuscous scales ; an obscure streak of pale ochreous 

 suffusion along fold ; a small dark fuscous spot beneath costa near 

 base, and two others representing discal stigmata, these three connected 

 by white suffusion ; a series of dark fuscous linear dots round posterior 

 part of costa and termen : cilia whitish speckled with fuscous. Hind- 

 wings grey ; cilia as in forewings. 



CAPE COLONY, Capetown, in April (Haughton) ; one specimen. 

 Except in the absence of frontal tuft, this species agrees in all respects 

 with the structure of the South American genus Pisinidea. 



LYONETIADAE. 



GEN. BUCCULATEIX Zell. 



BUCCULATRIX AGILIS, U. sp. 



o $ . 7 mm. Head whitish-grey, more or less mixed with dark 

 fuscous. Thorax grey-whitish irrorated with black. Abdomen light 



