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CAPE COLONY, Kimberley, in December (Bro. J. H. Power) ; one 

 specimen. Bred from a larva in a case closely resembling a snail- 

 shell (Helix), formed of grey silk covered with excrement and refuse, 

 being a tube coiled in a spiral cone of three whorls, increasing 

 from apex to mouth, height 6 mm., diameter of bottom whorl 10 mm. ; 

 food not recorded. This is a very singular habit, deserving further 

 study. 



PALTODORA HIBEKNA, n. sp. 



3 ? . 13-14 mm. Head and thorax white, shoulders somewhat 

 sprinkled with grey. Palpi white, terminal joint blackish except 

 apex. Abdomen grey-whitish. Forewings lanceolate, apex produced, 

 acute ; white, sprinkled in $ with dark fuscous, in 2 with grey ; 

 undefined spots of dark fuscous irroration on fold at \ of wing, and 

 towards costa at f ; stigmata dark fuscous, plical very obliquely 

 before first discal, both these in one specimen little marked, second 

 discal followed by an undefined streak of dark fuscous suffusion 

 extended towards apex : cilia whitish, round apex sprinkled with 

 grey or dark fuscous towards base. Hindwings pale grey or 

 whitish-grey ; cilia ochreous-whitish. 



ZULULAND, Mfongosi, in April and May (W. E. Jones) ; three 

 specimens. 



GEN. MEGACEASPEDUS, Zell. 

 MEGACRASPEDUS INCOLA, n. sp. 



$ . 25 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-whitish, shoulders 

 sprinkled with brownish and black. (Palpi broken.) Forewings 

 elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen very 

 obliquely rounded ; pale ochreous partially tinged with whitish, 

 and sprinkled irregularly with brownish ; two small spots of black 

 irroration on costa towards base, and beneath costa in middle, and 

 four on costa posteriorly ; a dot of blackish irroration near base in 

 middle, one in disc at , one on fold beyond this, and three repre- 

 senting stigmata, plical rather obliquely before first discal; some 

 scattered black scales towards costa posteriorly : cilia whitish- 

 ochreous, at base on termen with several scattered blackish scales. 

 Hindwings whitish-grey; cilia whitish-ochreous, with a faint 

 greyish shade. 



CAPE COLONY, Kimberley, in December (Bro. J. II. Powell) ; one 

 specimen. Bred from a large ovate woody gall (34 mm. x 2)3 mm.) 

 on twig of an unnamed shrub. In superficial appearance and in 

 the gall-making habit this species strongly recalls Occocccis </nj/o- 



