360 Annals of the South African Muse7im. 



COLEOPHOKA MEGALOPTILA, n. Sp. 



? . 18 mm. Head and thorax white. Palpi white, scales of 

 second joint forming a short angular apical tuft. Antennae white, 

 basal joint with very large projecting externally yellow-ochreous tuft 

 of scales in front. Abdomen whitish. Forewings very narrow, 

 elongate-lanceolate ; deep ochreous-yellow ; a broad white dorsal 

 band from base to tornus, near base occupying half wing, gradually 

 narrowed to tornus, suffused with yellowish posteriorly ; a moderate 

 snow-white costal streak from base to near apex, edged beneath by a 

 streak of dark brown suffusion which begins very narrowly near 

 base and becomes much broader posteriorly, covering whole apex of 

 wing : cilia pale whitish-ochreous, on costa snow-white. Hindwings 

 pale grey ; cilia whitish-ochreous. 



Cape Colony, Clanwilliam ; one specimen. Allied to vibicigerella. 



TINEID^. 



Phyllocnistis citrella Stt. 

 Cape Colony, Capetown (Lightfoot) ; two bred specimens. 

 Doubtless introduced with its foodplant ; not previously recorded 

 from Africa. 



LyONETIA COTIFRAGA, n. sp. 



2 . 8 mm. Head white, with a few fuscous hairs in centre of 

 crown. Palpi whitish. Antennae pale grey, base white. Thorax 

 white. Abdomen light grey. Forewings elongate, very narrow, 

 moderately poifited, apex strongly produced, caudate ; fuscous, 

 mixed with dark fuscous ; four oblique white dorsal blotches or spots, 

 reaching half across wing, first largest, basal, containing a spot of 

 ground colour, second trapezoidal, third and fourth wedgeshaped, 

 fourth tornal, small ; three oblique white wedgeshaped marks from 

 costa beyond middle ; a round black apical dot : cilia white, towards 

 tornus pale fuscous, round apex with three vertical costal bars, two 

 vertical dorsal, and one direct apical bar dark fuscous, first dorsal 

 bar preceded by a fuscous spot. Hindwings and cilia light grey. 



Cape Colony, Capetown (Lightfoot) ; one specimen. 



OiNOPHILA V-FLAVA HaW. 



Cape Colony, Capetown (Lightfoot) ; five specimens. These vary 

 much in development of marking, the extreme forms being (a) both 

 fasciae well developed and connected by a broad bar in disc, and 



