252 Annals of the South African Museum. 



GEN. EPIPHEACTIS, Meyr. 

 EPIPHRACTIS IMBELLIS, n. sp. 



$ . 19 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen whitish. Fore- 

 wings elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen somewhat 

 sinuate, rather oblique ; ochreous-whitish ; a brown-reddish mark 

 above dorsum near base ; a brown-reddish streak from ^ of disc to 

 f of dorsum, posteriorly triangularly dilated below middle and 

 sending a branch hence to lower angle of cell ; a triangular patch 

 of scattered light brown-reddish suffusion resting on termen, with 

 a few dark fuscous scales, its apex indicating second discal stigma : 

 cilia whitish, outer half sprinkled with brown-reddish. Hindwing 

 and cilia ochreous-whitish ; costal hairpencil whitish. 



NATAL, Durban ; one specimen. 



FAMILY TINEIDAE. 



GEN. MELASINA, Boisd. 

 MELASINA PETRODES, n. sp. 



<? . 19-24 mm. Head and thorax white sometimes partly 

 tinged with ochreous, face and front of thorax mixed with grey. 

 Palpi moderate, slender, loosely scaled, white. Antennal pecti- 

 nations 3. Abdomen whitish-grey. Forewings elongate, narrow- at 

 base, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded 

 rather strongly oblique ; all veins separate ; pale fuscous, suffusedly 

 irrorated with white ; costal edge suffusedly dark fuscous from base 

 to f ; some fuscous suffusion towards costa at base ; two undefined 

 angulated fuscous fasciae before and beyond middle, edged with 

 some black scales, sometimes forming dots or strigulae, connected 

 together by a broad bar in middle, preceded and separated by 

 undefined blotches of white suffusion in disc above and below middle, 

 both fasciae more or less distinctly interrupted beneath costa ; five 

 small rather dark fuscous spots on costa posteriorly ; some irre- 

 gular black scales or dots towards apex, sometimes forming a 

 subterminal series of dots and strigulae ; a series of cloudy fuscous 

 dots along termen : cilia light grey mixed with whitish. Hindwings 

 grey or dark grey ; cilia grey- whitish. 



CAPE COLONY, Kimberley, in March (Bro. J. H. Power)-; five 

 specimens. Near sisyraea, but forewings less elongate, more 

 strongly marked, termen less oblique. 



