354 Annals of the South African Museum. 



streak from base to \ of dorsum, suffused with dark purplish-fuscous 

 posteriorly, edged with white above and beneath ; a broad ashy- 

 purplish streak irrorated with deep ferruginous along costa from ^ 

 to apex, attenuated posteriorly, edged beneath with whitish suffusion, 

 before and beyond middle confluent with two upwards-convex lunu- 

 late deep ferruginous marks whose adjacent extremities cross in disc 

 and enclose with costal streak a clear white elongate spot ; a ferru- 

 ginous dot beneath fold beyond ^ : cilia whitish-yellowish, on costa 

 ferruginous-fuscous. Hindwings and cilia whitish ; costal hairpencil 

 whitish. 



Cape Colony, Kalk Bay, in February (Lightfoot) ; one specimen. 



XYLOKYCTID^. 



Odites metapheacta, n. sp. 



(? . 27 mm. Head, palpi, antennte, thorax, and abdomen whitish- 

 ochreous ; palpi brownish towards base ; antennal ciliations 3. 

 Forewings elongate, moderate, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, 

 termen rounded, little oblique ; 2 from angle ; whitish-oclireous, with 

 a faint yellowish tinge ; costal edge fulvous : cilia whitish-ochreous, 

 on costa fulvous mixed with fuscous. Hindwings pale whitish- 

 ochreous ; cilia whitish-ochreous. 



Natal, Durban, in November (Leigh) ; one specimen, bred but 

 without particulars. 



GECOPHOEIDiE. 



Harpella scolopistis, n. sp. 



3 . 15-17 mm. Head white, towards centre of crown more or less 

 pale brownish. Palpi pale brownish mixed with white, second joint 

 very long, clothed with rough projecting scales on apical half above 

 and towards apex beneath, terminal joint much shorter than second. 

 Antennae grey, ciliations 3. Thorax light brownish sprinkled with 

 white. Abdomen light grey, sides and apex suffused with white. 

 Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen almost 

 straight, very oblique ; rather light fuscous, irrorated with white 

 except on costal third ; a moderate white costal streak from near 

 base to f , attenuated to extremities ; stigmata very indistinct, hardlv 

 darker, plical beneath first disca/1 : ciha pale brownish, somewhat 



