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11. — New South African Micro-Lepidoptera. — By E. Meyrick, 



B.A., F.E.S. 



II. 



I AM indebted to Dr. L. P^ringuey for the opportunity of studying 

 the additional naaterial described here; the types are deposited in 

 the collection of the South x\frican Museum. 



PTEEOPHOEID^. 



Platyptilia periacta, n. sp. 



^ . 18 mm. Head white, collar tinged with ochreous, frontal 

 tuft moderate. Palpi If, ochreous-whitish. Thorax ochreous- 

 white. Fore wings cleft from beyond ^, segments moderately broad, 

 termen of first sinuate, oblique ; pale brownish much mixed with 

 whitish, with some scattered dark brown scales ; costal edge dark 

 fuscous with a few whitish points, and a whitish space beyond 

 costal blotch ; indistinct spots of dark fuscous irroration towards 

 dorsum at ^, and beneath costa before middle ; a sharply marked 

 triangular dark fuscous costal blotch before cleft, reaching f across 

 wing, whitish-edged posteriorly ; some fuscous suffusion aloug 

 termen : cilia whitish, tips infuscated, on costa dark fuscous, on 

 termen with an even blackish subbasal line, on dorsum with some 

 scattered blackish scales and two blackish scale-projections before 

 and beyond costal blotch. Hindwings cleft firstly from -J, secondly 

 from 1 ; grey ; cilia pale greyish, on termen with a dark grey ante- 

 median shade, on dorsum mixed with whitish, towards base with 

 scattered blackish scales, in middle with a scale-projection of whitish 

 scales becoming blackish towards tips. 



Cape Colony, Capetown (Dawson); one specimen. Allied to 

 molopias. 



Stenoptilia zophodactyla, Dup. 



Cape Colony, Capetown (Dawson) ; two specimens. 



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