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the subapical curve, but only a trace, and no others with even a 

 trace of the basal dash. Expanse 1.35 inches. 

 Described from one ? taken here. 



Notes ON "The Tortricid/E, Tineid.e and Pterophorid^. 

 OF South Africa, Lord Walsingham, M.A., F.Z.S.," &c. 



By C. H. Fernald. 



The above is the title of an interesting paper by Lord Wal- 

 singham on some of the microlepidoptera of South Africa, pub- 

 lished in the Transactions of the Entomological Society, 1881, 

 Part IL, with four uncolored plates. 



I do not feel competent to review this valuable paper, since 

 most of the species are entirely unknown to me, but I wish to 

 express the opinion that his Lordship has done a most praise- 

 worthy work in clearing up the synonymy of the various writers 

 on the micros of South Africa. 



Lord W. found a single female in this collection, which agreed 

 with the description oi Eccopsis WaJilbergiayia Zell., the types of 

 which are in the museum at Stockholm. The genus Eccopsis v^diS 

 established by Prof. Zeller in 1852, for the reception of this 

 species. In 1859, Lederer, in his classification of the Tortricidce 

 of Europe put the well known European species latifasciana 

 Haw., into the genus Eccopsis, and this had been followed by later 

 German writers down to the year 1875, when Zeller published his 

 work on the Tortricidce of North America, in which he expresses 

 a doubt whether latifasciana is congeneric with his WaJdbergiana. 

 Clemens had previously (i860) established his genus Exartema 

 for nitidana and several other species, but in 1865 he suppressed 

 this genus and put the species at first placed in it, in the genus 

 Sericoris. Zeller, in the paper above referred to, revived the genus 

 Exartema of Clemens and restored the species formerly placed in 

 it, with some which he described as new. Zeller's original de- 

 scription of the genus Eccopsis, while agreeing with Exartema in 

 general, did not mention the remarkable appendage near the anal 

 angle of the hind wing of the male, and he did not think it possi- 

 sible that he could have overlooked it when he was characterizing 

 his genus Eccopsis if it had really been present. Lord Walsing- 

 ham has taken the trouble to determine the fact that such an 

 appendage exists, and publishes a sketch of the hind wing of E. 

 WaJdbergiana, made by Mr. C. Aurivillius, assistant in the Ento- 

 mological Department of the State Museum at Stockholm, where 

 the types are preserved. This sketch shows the venation and the 

 characteristic appendage at the anal angle of the hind wing. The 

 form of the anal angle beyond the appendage is subject to some 

 variation among the American species, but the sketch of Wahlber- 

 giana agrees very closely with Eccopsis Footiana, and differs but 

 little from nitidana, the type of Clemens' genus Exartema. 



From the North American species now before me I am sure 



