364 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Amydeia trophias Meyr. 

 Cape Colony, Capetown (Lightfoot) ; four specimens. 



TiQUADRA GoocHii Wals. 

 Natal, Durban (Leigh) ; one specimen. This is a ,3^ , expanding 

 25 mm., with the hindwings pale ochreous-yellowish, ciHa yellow- 

 whitish. 



Mesopherna incultella Walk. 



Cape Colony, Clanwilliam (Marchant) ; two specimens. This 

 species, referred by Walker to Tinea and not since corrected, 

 appears truly referable to the genus Mesopherna, hitherto only 

 known by three Australian species; it is therefore an interesting 

 identification. Antennae of <J with spreading ciliations (2) ; fore- 

 wings with 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex. 



Melasina circophora, n. sp. 



^ 5 . 26-30 mm. Head, palpi, and antennae dark fuscous, 

 slightly whitish-sprinkled; palpi moderate, rather slender, curved, 

 ascending ; antennal pectinations in <? hardly 3. Thorax dark 

 fuscous. Abdomen fuscous. Forewings very elongate, narrow, costa 

 gently arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, rather strongly 

 oblique ; all veins separate ; dark fuscous ; sometimes some slight 

 whitish sutfusion towards fold in middle, and a few scattered whitish 

 scales; two large transversely placed and confluent black rings in 

 disc before middle, two others longitudinally placed and separate in 

 disc posteriorly, and a fifth beneath these more or less defined on 

 lower margin, all these more or less incomplete ; between or tra- 

 versing these are sometimes several more or less marked black 

 longitudinal dashes on veins, especially in J ; small blackish marks 

 on or near dorsum at i and tornus : cilia fuscous, tips paler. Hind- 

 wings light fuscous, in ? darker-sprinkled ; cilia light fuscous, 

 towards tips whitish. 



Cape Colony, Capetown (Lightfoot, Eobertson) ; three specimens. 

 The black markings are evidently variable, but the species is easily 

 recognised by the very long forewings and uniform dark ground- 

 colour. 



Melasina ^difica Meyr. 



Cape Colony, Vryburg ; one specimen. 



Melasina brachyctenis, n. sp. 

 g . 24 mm. Head pale yellowish-ochreous, on sides of crown 

 fuscous-tinged. Palpi moderate, densely scaled, tolerably pointed, 



