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grey. Forewings lanceolate ; whitish irrorated with black ; the white 

 ground-colour forms a more or less developed oblique streak from 

 middle of dorsum ; an oblique blackish streak from f of costa to near 

 tornus, obscured by the dark irroratiou : cilia whitish-grey, round apex 

 white with lines of black irroratiou. Hindwings grey ; cilia pale grey. 

 CAPE COLONY, Kimberley, bred in July from larvae feeding on 

 Acacia horrida (Lightfoot) ; five specimens. 



TINEIDAE. 



GEN. TINEA Linn. 



TINEA TRILINGUIS, n. sp. 



$ 9 . 11-13 mm. Head fulvous. Antennae ochreous- whitish. 

 Thorax dark purple-fuscous, with a whitish-ochreous median stripe. 

 Abdomen whitish-grey. Forewings elongate-lanceolate ; 4 and 5, or 

 5 and 6 sometimes short-stalked (inconstant), 7 and 8 stalked ; pale 

 ochreous ; a broad dark purplish-fuscous median longitudinal streak 

 from base to apex and upper part of termen, extending at base to 

 costa and dorsum : cilia whitish-ochreous, at apex with a dark fuscous 

 bar. Hiudwiiigs with 5 and 6 stalked ; light grey ; cilia whitish. 



CAPE COLONY, (It. Winthoek, 4500 ft. ; two specimens. 



TINEA SPILOCOMA, u. sp. 



<$ . 8 mm. Head whitish, lower part of face blackish, two blackish 

 spots between antennae. Palpi blackish. Thorax ochreous-whitish, 

 anterior half blackish. Abdomen grey. Forewiugs elongate, rather 

 narrow, costa gently arched, apex tolerably pointed, termeu very obliquely 

 rounded ; light ochreous-brown, irregularly mixed with blackish ; 

 costal | blackish, crossed by an oblique whitish streak at ^, a 

 broader oblique rhomboidal white spot before middle, two parallel 

 oblique white lines at --, and an inwardly oblique white mark before 

 apex ; about six irregular black marks or short rather oblique spots 

 from dorsum, separated by white suffusion ; a slender irregular black 

 terminal streak, edged with white anteriorly : cilia whitish-ochreous, 

 basal third suffusedly mixed with blackish, at apex forming a black 

 spot edged above and below by white spots. Hiudwings rather dark 

 purplish-grey ; cilia grey. 



CAPE COLONY, Hottentot-Holland Mountains, 3000 ft., in March 

 (Barnard). A notable species, more like cloacetta than any other 

 African form. 



