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-with dense white scales and have white hairs below near the base ; all 

 the spines are well developed and yellow, thei'e are none on the front 

 femora, 3-4 on the middle femora, 6-7 on the hind femora ; claws 

 black, with red base ; pulvilli very short. Wings greyish hyaline, 

 with a suffused fuscous fringe along the fore border and near the 

 base, more extended in the male than in the female and ending in the 

 marginal cell at the end of the first vein. Basal comb black, with white 

 tomentum near the base ; alula almost hyaline, with pale fringe ; 

 discoidal cell with parallel sides, as broad as the middle of the first 

 posterior cell, its terminal vein being longer than the discal cross-vein ; 

 second posterior cell as long as the discoidal cell, which is somewhat 

 short. 



Anastoechus macrophthalmus, Bezzi. 



Nearly allied to the preceding species, but distinguished by the 

 closely approximated eyes of the male, and by the bristles of the head 

 and thorax being yellow instead of black. 



A single rather old and discoloured male specimen from Hex River 

 (Cape), December, 1884 (L. Pcringuey). Type is described by me from 

 Willowmore (Cape) in the Museum at Budapest. 



Anastoechus innocuus, sp. nov. (5", ?■ 



A smallish oblong, less bristly species, making a passage to the 

 following on account of the small and entirely white l^asal comb of 

 the wings. 



Type (J and type $ , a single couple of specimens from Van Wyk's 

 Vlei (Cape) (E. G. Alston). 



Male. — Length of body 8-8"5 mm. ; of wing expanse 7'5-8 mm. 

 Head black, but entirely clothed with dense hairs, which on the occiput 

 are rather long, pale yellowish above and whitish below ; lower border 

 of the eyes with silvei-y scaly hairs ; ocellar tubercle with yellowish 

 hairs. Eyes of the male more broadly separated than in the preceding 

 species, the frons at the narrowest point being as broad as the ocellar 

 triangle ; the upper areolets are a little broader than the lower ones. 

 Frontal triangle at the base and on the middle with scarce, erect, dark 

 hairs, and in front ai'ound the base of antennae with long yellowish 

 hairs, mingling with those of the same colour which cover entii'ely the 

 face concealing the mouth opening and of a white colour below ; 

 between this dense pubescence there are no bristles at all. Antennae 

 entirely black, the first joint three times as long as the second, with 

 dense pale yellowish hairs ; thii-d joint linear, narrower than the 



