Netv South African Micro-Lepidoptera. 413 



GELECHIAD^. 



Paltodora melanatbacta, n. sp. 



<? ? . 19-21 mm. Head white. Palpi white, second joint with 

 scales expanded above towards apex and long dense tuft beneath, 

 dark fuscous except at apex of joint, terminal joint longer than 

 second, anterior edge dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, narrow^ 

 especially in ^ , costa slightly arched, in g^ slightly sinuate towards 

 middle, apex acute, produced, termen sinuate, extremely oblique ; 

 fuscous-whitish, sometimes partially suffused with pale fuscous, 

 with scattered blackish scales, especially towards apex ; costa some- 

 times suffused with blackish towards base ; a black streak on sub- 

 median fold from base to ^, apex acute ; sometimes a black dot 

 beneath costa near base ; stigmata rather large, black, plical very 

 obliquely before first discal, first discal somewhat beyond middle, in 

 one specimen nearly obsolete : cilia ochreous-whitish, with more or 

 less developed interrupted blackish median line. Hindwings light 

 grey ; cilia pale whitish-ochreous. 



Transvaal, White River, from September to December (Cooke) ; 

 six specimens. 



SYMBATICA, n. g. 



Head with appressed scales ; ocelli imperceptible ; tongue 

 developed, Antennse f, basal joint moderately elongate, without 

 pecten. Labial palpi long, curved, ascending, second joint with 

 appressed scales, terminal shorter, slender, acute. Maxillary palpi 

 very short, appressed to tongue. Posterior tibiae clothed with long 

 hairs above. Forewings with 2 almost from angle, separate, 7 and 8 

 stalked, 7 to costa, 11 from before middle. Hindwings 1, elongate- 

 trapezoidal, termen sinuate, oblique, cilia almost 1 ; 4 and 5 out of 3, 

 6 and 7 long- stalked. 



Probably allied to Gelechia, but characterised by the quite peculiar 

 neuration of hindwings. 



Symbatica cryphias, n. sp. 



$ . 25 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark grey sprinkled with 

 white, terminal joint of palpi suffused with white except on anterior 

 edge. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly 

 arched, apex pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded ; grey 

 irrorated with black and white ; discal stigmata represented by small 

 spots of blackish irroration connected by a streak of white suffusion : 



