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elongate, costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, termen straight, 

 very oblique ; white ; some small scattered light ochreous-yellowish 

 spots, apparently irregular and variable in position : cilia white. 

 Hindwings light grey ; cilia whitish-grey. 



Cape Colony, Capetown, Kalk Bay, in February (Lightfoot) ; two 

 specimens. 



Plutella balanopis, n. sp. 



(J. 15 mm. Head whitish, sides of face pale ochreous. Palpi 

 brownish-ochreous sprinkled with dark fuscous, tuft of second 

 joint short. Antennae greyish-ochreous with several whitish 

 bands. Thorax pale ochreous, suffused with dark fuscous irrora- 

 tion except on a broad dorsal stripe. Abdomen whitish-ochreous 

 mixed with fuscous. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently 

 arched, apex round-pointed, termen faintly sinuate, oblique ; 

 whitish-ochreous, suffusedly mixed with light brownish ; a rather 

 dark fuscous suffusion extends over whole wing, except a small 

 elongate patch in centre of disc, and undefined costal and dorsal 

 streaks which disappear towards base ; costal half of wing irregu- 

 larly dotted with dark fuscous ; a narrow elongate ochreous-white 

 spot in disc at ^, partially edged with dark fuscous ; a cloudy 

 blackish-fuscous spot at apex : cilia whitish-ochreous, with two 

 dark fuscous shades. Hindwings with 3 and 4 closely approxi- 

 mated at base, 5 and 6 approximated towards base ; pale grey ; 

 cilia whitish-grey. 



Cape Colony, Clanwilliam, in November (Lightfoot) ; one specimen. 



TINEID^. 



Opogona scaphopis, n. sp, 



3 $ . 14-15 mm. Head pale ochreous-yellow, crown purplish- 

 fuscous. Palpi fuscous, internally whitish-ochreous. Antennae pale 

 yellowish. Thorax ochreous-yellow. Abdomen light greyish- 

 ochreous. Forewings lanceolate, apex rather prolonged, acute ; 

 clear pale ochreous-yellow ; a slender dark fuscous streak along 

 basal fifth of costa ; a narrow purplish-bronzy-fuscous streak edged 

 anteriorly with black from f of dorsum along termen to apex, 

 thickest on tornus and thence very finely attenuated to apex : cilia 

 gray, slightly purplish-tinged, on costa pale yellowish. Hindwings 

 pale shining prismatic violet- brassy-grey ; cilia light greyish- 

 ochreous. 



