230 EXOTIC MICROLEPIBOPTERA. 



fuscous scales: cilia -whitish -fuscous. Ilindwings pale fuscous; 

 cilia grc\-whitish. 



Natal, Karkloof, January (Janse); one specimen. Type in 

 Coll. Janse. 



HEPIALID.E. 



Hepialus ptiloscelis, n. sp. 

 c? . 22 mm. Head, thorax thinly clothed light fuscous hairs, 

 eyes large, approximated anteriorly. Palpi extremely small, 

 surrounded \vitli lung fuscous hairs. Antenntc ^, simple, moderate, 

 somewhat flattened, attenuated to apex, minutely puhescent. 

 Ahdomen pale fuscous, with dense long hairs on basal half. 

 Posterior legs reduced, aborted, consisting mainly of a spreading 

 tuft of very long pale fuscous hairs. Forewings rather elongate- 

 triangular, costa nearly straight, apex obtuse, termen bowed, 

 rather oblique ; thinly clothed with fuscous hairscales : cilia 

 whitish, basal half fuscous. Hindwings thinly scaled, light 

 ochreous-grey ; cilia as in forewings. 



Cape Colony, Albany District, bred from " erect tubular 

 structure"; one example. Type in Albany Museum, communi- 

 cated by Mr. A. J. T. Janso. The tubular structure mentioned is 

 doubtless the terminal of a subterranean gallery, in which the 

 larva feeds on roots ; a similar structure is found with certain 

 species of Melasina. 



GRACILARIAD.E. 



LithocoUetis pentadesma, n. sp. 



S $ . 4-5 mm. Head ochreous-brownish, face white. Thorax 

 reddish-ochreous-brown, with transverse bar of black irroration. 

 Abdomen grey. Forewings lanceolate; reddish- ochrcous-brown; 

 a fine angnlated basal fascia of black irroration ; three slender 

 fascia? of black irroration, rather inwards-oblique from costa, 

 curved-angulated above middle, slightly edged with white pos- 

 teriorly, more strongly towards costa, an oblique bar of scattered 

 black scales from angle of third beyond its white margin to costa ; 

 a slender streak of black irroration along termen, preceded on 

 costa by a white mark : cilia whitish-grey tinged reddish-ochreous, 

 three lines of black points. Hindwings grey; cilia whitish-grey. 



Java, Buitenzorg, bred from flat roundish blotch-mines on under- 

 surface of leaves of Pterocarpus indieus (^Legumiiwsie), sometimes 

 30 or 40 larva) in a leaf, mines coalescing (Dr. W. lioeplce) ; nine 

 specimens. Type in British Museum. 



Acrocercops angelica, n. sp. 

 S . 8 mm. Head shining brassy-metallic, with long flat erectile 

 scales from back of crown. Labial palpi very slender, whitish- 



