Neio South African Micro-Lepidoptera. 63 



COSMOPTEBYGIM:. 



GEN. COSMOPTEEYX, Hiibn. 



COSMOPTEEYX LIENIGIELLA Zell. 



ZULULAND, Mfongosi, in November (W. B. Jones) ; one specimen, 

 which, though not in good condition, appears to agree fully in all 

 respects with the ordinary European form ; I have no doubt of its 

 specific identity. The foodplant, Phragmites communis, the common 

 reed, is cosmopolitan in distribution. 



GEN. SCYTHEIS, Hiibn. 



SCYTHKIS ROSEOLA, n. Sp. 



3 $ . 16-19 mm. Head and thorax grey suffused with ochreous- 

 whitish, faintly rosy-tinged. Palpi rosy- whitish, suffused with 

 fuscous anteriorly. Antennal ciliations in 3- 1. Abdomen whitish- 

 grey, in $ more whitish posteriorly, in ? suffused with 

 whitish-ochreous, anal tuft of $ whitish-ochreous, ventral surface 

 ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate-lanceolate ; rather dark 

 fuscous ; a rosy-whitish median longitudinal streak from base to 

 near termen ; a streak of rosy-whitish suffusion along costa from 

 \ to apex : cilia fuscous, on costa whitish. Hindwings with 4 and 5 

 stalked ; rather dark grey ; cilia fuscous. 



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

 MATABELELAND, Bulawayo (H. C. Pead) ; four specimens. 



SCYTHEIS MELANODOEA, n. sp. 



$ . 16-17 mm. Head and thorax pale whitish-brown. Palpi 

 whitish, second joint greyish-ochreous anteriorly, mixed with 

 blackish towards apex. Autennal ciliations f. Abdomen whitish- 

 ochreous. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex 

 pointed, termen faintly sinuate, very oblique ; pale whitish-brownish ; 

 a small black spot beneath fold at \ of wing, a black dot just above 

 dorsurn obliquely before this ; a more or less developed black dot or 

 group of scales on fold rather beyond this, representing plical 

 stigma ; second discal stigma black, at f of wing, and a blackish dot 

 or group of scales on tornus rather beyond this : cilia whitish- 



