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specimen the markings of the upper surface are represented beneath 

 by a distinct though suffused variegation. 



Stagmatophora basanistis, n. sp. 



5 . 12 mm. Head whitish, crown tinged with yellow-ochreous. 

 Palpi white, terminal joint with small fuscous subbasal and sub- 

 apical spots internally. Antennae dark fuscous spotted with white. 

 Thorax dark purplish-fuscous. Abdomen dark fuscous, segmental 

 margins white. Forewings broad-lanceolate, apex produced, acute; 

 dark purplish-fuscous ; ochreous-white transverse spots on costa at 

 ^, middle, and f, first slightly oblique, reaching fold, touching a 

 small round golden-metallic spot beneath fold, second hardly oblique, 

 reaching half across wing, nearly reaching an almost equally large 

 bronzy-golden spot on dorsum opposite, third small, semicircular, 

 nearly meeting a smaller bronzy-golden spot on dorsum somewhat 

 before it : cilia dark fuscous (defective). Hindwings and cilia grey. 

 Cape Colony, Vryburg (Jones) ; one specimen. 



ScYTHRis chlor^ma Meyr. 



Cape Colony, Capetown (Lightfoot) ; four specimens. These 

 show the species to be somewhat variable, and the original de- 

 scription may be amended in the following particulars : — 



<? $ . 14-18 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous, partially 

 suffused with white. Palpi white, second joint externally light 

 brownish sprinkled with black except at apex. Abdomen white 

 beneath. Forewings light greyish-ochreous or pale fuscous, more 

 or less suffused with white, sometimes almost wholly, with a few 

 scattered black scales ; sometimes blackish dots beneath fold 

 before ^, and in disc at f ; cilia light greyish-ochreous or pale 

 fuscous, mixed with whitish towards base. Hindwings ochrcous- 

 grey, paler towards base ; cilia whitish-ochreous. 



PLUTELLID^.. 



Yponomeuta sistrophora, n. sp. 



3 ? . 20-21 mm. Head white, crown with four black spots. Palpi 

 whitish, base of terminal joint l)lackish. Antennae whitish. Thorax 

 white, with a small black spot on patagia, two on each side of back, 

 and one at posterior extremity. Abdomen grey. Forewings elon- 

 gate, narrow, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly 



