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porrected, clothed throughout with very dense long loose hairscales, 

 terminal joint shorter than second. Maxillary palpi obsolete. 

 Posterior tibiae clothed with long hairs above. Forewings with 

 Ib furcate, 2 from angle, 7 to termen, 8-10 approximated, 11 from 

 middle. Hindwings almost 1, elongate-ovate, cilia ; veins all 

 separate, 2 remote, 5 and 6 somewhat approximated towards base. 

 Allied to Picrospora, but characterized by the peculiar palpi. 



ACOKOSTOMA MEDICATA, n. Sp. 



3 . 14-15 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax white densely irrorated 

 with dark fuscous. Abdomen dark grey. Forewings elongate, costa 

 gently arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, rather strongly 

 oblique ; white, densely irrorated with dark fuscous and somewhat 

 mixed irregularly with yellow-ochreous, with scattered black scales 

 sometimes forming undefined strigulae ; submedian fold and 

 terminal area suffused with clear white ; stigmata yellow-ochreous 

 irrorated or suffused with black, discal connected by a white streak 

 extended to terminal suffusion, plical rather beyond first discal, 

 sometimes connected with it, a similar dot beneath fold at J ; an 

 irregular more or less defined transverse ochreous-yellow streak 

 parallel to termen at |-, not reaching margins : cilia white sprinkled 

 with fuscous, towards base with one or two lines of black points. 

 Hindwings dark grey; cilia grey, with darker subbasal line. 



CAPE COLONY, Saldanha Bay, in October (Dr. L. Peringuey) ; seven 

 specimens. 



FAMILY ADELIDAE. 



GEN. CEEOMITIA, Zell. 

 CEROMITIA GEMINATA, n. sp. 



3 . 10-11 mm. Head and thorax white, somewhat mixed with 

 light grey. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, 

 termen very obliquely rounded ; light grey mixed with white, and 

 strewn with scattered dark fuscous scales ; two large cloudy dark 

 fuscous dots transversely placed on end of cell ; sometimes small 

 dark fuscous dots round posterior part of costa and termen : cilia grey- 

 whitish. Hindwings iridescent grey-whitish ; cilia grey-whitish. 



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

 specimens. 



