SOUTH AFRICAN MICEOLEPIDOPTEROUS BAGWORMS. 617 



thickly strewn with dark fuscous scales ; cilia pale yellowish, 

 sometimes greyish-tinged, round apex and upper part of 

 termen suffused with fuscous. Under-surface of hind wings 

 pale yellowish, sometimes infuscated. 



Hab. — New Hanover, in August and October (Hardenberg), 

 three specimens. 



Melasina crater odes sp. n. 



Female. — 18 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax and abdo- 

 men dark fuscous ; palpi short, slender ; antennae shortly 

 pectinated, clothed with dense rough scales above excep 

 towards apex, apical portion whitish-grey. Fore wings 

 elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa gently arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen obliquely rounded ; dark grey, with some 

 black transverse interrupted strife and strigulfe, costal edge 

 whitish-grey between these ; a straight somewhat oblique 

 blackish fascia before middle ; a second beyond middle, 

 becoming much broader on costal half, and enclosing a grey- 

 whitish dot on costa ; a blackish subterminal streak, parallel 

 to termen on upper two-thirds : cilia pale brassy-ochreous, 

 mixed with grey, towards tips whitish. Hind wings dark 

 fuscous; cilia brassy-fuscous. 



Hab. — New Hanover, in February (Hardenberg), one 

 specimen . 



Allied to primella, but with very different palpi. Larval 

 case 8 mm. long, subcylindrical, narrowed at extremities^ 

 composed of silk covered with refuse, strengthened with a 

 series of twigs attached rather spirally round median area. 



ADELID^. 



Ceromitia x an thecoma sp. n. 



Female. — 15 mm. Head densely haii'ed on crown, wholly 

 ochreous-orange. Labial and maxillary palpi short, whitish. 

 Antennae white, towards base grey. Thorax rather dark 

 purplish-grey. Abdomen dark grey. Fore wings elongate. 



