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roughened anteriorly, terminal joint shorter than second, thickened 

 with scales projecting posteriorly above middle, apex slender, acute. 

 Maxillary palpi very short. Posterior tibiae with scanty appressed 

 hairs above. Forewings with Ib furcate, 2 from towards angle, 

 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa, 11 from middle. Hindwings 1, trape- 

 zoidal, apex tolerably pointed, termen slightly sinuate beneath it, 

 cilia 1, 3 and 4 connate, 5 slightly approximated, 6 and 7 parallel. 



THYMOSOPHA ANTILEUCA, n. sp. 



3 ? . 14-15 mm. Head white. Palpi dark fuscous, tips white. 

 Thorax white, posterior extremity dark fuscous. Abdomen grey. 

 Forewings elongate-lanceolate; dark fuscous, with slight purple 

 gloss ; a triangular white blotch on dorsum before middle, its apex 

 almost touching costa at % ; a smaller triangular white blotch on 

 costa at f , reaching half across wing : cilia dark fuscous. Hind- 

 wings and cilia grey. 



CAPE COLONY, Dunbrody, in June (Fath. A. Vogt) ; two 

 specimens. 



GEN. PHTHOKIMAEA, Meyr. 

 PHTHORIMAEA ERICNISTA, n. sp. 



$ ? . 8-10 mm. Head and thorax whitish sprinkled with dark 

 fuscous, shoulders with a blackish spot. Palpi whitish sprinkled with 

 grey, second and terminal joints each with basal ring and supra- 

 median band of dark fuscous suffusion. Abdomen whitish-grey, anal 

 tuft ochreous- whitish. Forewings elongate-lanceolate ; whitish- 

 fuscous or whitish-grey, irrorated with dark fuscous or blackish, 

 mixed with brown in disc ; spots of darker suffusion on costa at base, 

 %, middle, and f ; black dots on fold near base and at J ; stigmata 

 black, somewhat raised, plical somewhat before first discal, an 

 additional dot beneath and somewhat beyond second discal : cilia 

 whitish-fuscous sprinkled with blackish. Hindwings and cilia 

 light grey. 



CAPE COLONY, Capetown (Lightfoot) ; four specimens. Allied to 

 synecta, which, together with the whole of the Lita group of 

 Gelechia, are now attributed to Phthorimaea. 



GEN. BEACHMIA, Hubn. 

 BRACHMIA TOEREFACTA, n. sp. 



$ . 14-15 mm. Head and thorax pale yellow-ochreous, shoulders 

 grey. Palpi ochreous-yellowish, second joint rather dark grey. 



