New SoutJi African Micro-LcpUloptora. 3G7 



whitish, anterior and middle pairs Hned with dark fuscous. Fore- 

 wings cleft from f , segments rather narrow, acute ; whitish, with 

 a few scattered fuscous scales ; some fuscous irroration towards 

 middle of dorsum and before cleft ; a dark fuscous triangular spot 

 on costa above base of cleft, its discal portion nearly reaching this, 

 but paler and more suffused ; a black dot on costa midway between 

 this and apex, and beyond this a dark fuscous dot on lower margin 

 of first segment ; apex of second segment suffused with dark fuscous, 

 with a black dot on its lower margin near apex : cilia ochreous- 

 whitish, on lower margin of both segments with a brownish or 

 fuscous patch before apex, towards base of cleft brownish, on lower 

 margin of second segment with a pale brownish patch towards base. 

 Hindwings grey ; cilia light brownish. 



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



Agdistis cretifera, n. sp, 



(? 5 . 28-30 mm. Head white, forehead rather rounded-pro- 

 minent. Palpi rather short, rough-scaled, white, with two or three 

 fuscous scales. Antennae whitish spotted with fuscous. Thorax 

 white, tinged or sprinkled with pale ochreous. Abdomen whitish- 

 ochreous, with a few black specks. Forewings with apex obtuse, 

 termen almost straight, rather strongly oblique ; greyish-ochreous, 

 irrorated with white and fuscous ; a streak of ochreous- white 

 suffusion along dorsum ; triangular area ochreous-white, in $ 

 irrorated with greyish-ochreous and fuscous towards termen, with 

 a small suffused dark fuscous spot at inverted apex, and others 

 beneath its lower margin beyond middle and midway between this 

 and first ; cilia ochreous- whitish (imperfect). Hindwings ochreous- 

 whitish ; some suffused dark fuscous irroration along posterior part 

 of subdorsal fold and lower part of termen ; cilia ochreous-whitish. 



Cape Colony, Worcester, 1 S ; Saldanah Bay (Lightfoot), 1 ? . 



EUCOSMID^. 



POLYCHROSIS SPISSANA ZcU. 



1 S , bred from larva feeding on large red Ceroplastcs (Coccidce or 

 scale-insects) (Lounsbury). The surface of hindwings towards middle 

 of costa is in this sex clothed with long hairs. 



EUCOSMA (?) INSOLENS, n. Sp. 



$ . 11-12 mm. Head fuscous. Palpi moderate, porrected, dark 

 fuscous sprinkled with whitish, base whitish. Antennae dark fuscous 



