112 EXOTIC ItTCEOI.EPinorrKEA. 



Ptsrophorus sphenites, n. sp. 



c? . 14-15 mm. Head brown or dark fuscous, fillet and orlnts 

 ociireous-white. Palpi under 1, very slender, whitish. Thorax 

 yellow-whitish, posterior half brownish-tinged. Abdomen whitish- 

 yellow, with dorsal and lateral brownish lines, ventral surface 

 brownish. Fore wings cleft to 3-, segments pointed, first moderate, 

 second narrow ; ochreous-white sutfusediy mixed wirli light 

 brownish, a streak along lower margin of first segment to apex, 

 and another beginning on dorsum before middle and occupying 

 whole of second segment clear ochreous-white ; costal edge dark 

 fuscous; a line of dark fuscous suffusion beneath costa from base 

 to |- ; a thick posteriorly ])ointed subdorsal streak of dark fuscous 

 suffusion from b&se to middle, and a thick anteriorly pointed 

 streak above this from |- to base of cleft, its extremities marked by 

 dirk fuscous spots ; a dark fuscous mark on costa beyond base of 

 cleft : cilia dark fuscous, at apex with a whitish bar, within basal 

 half of cleft and on dorsum to beyond cleft mixed with ochreous- 

 whitish. Hindwin'j:s dark fuscous ; cilia fuscous. 



Natal, Durban and Pinctown, in February and March (Le/'i/Ji) ; 

 two specimens. Allied to laqaeatus. 



Pfcerophorus declivis, n. sp. 



(5. 16-17 mm. Head white or brown. Palpi 1, whitish, 

 filiform. Thorax white, posterior half sometimes light brownish. 

 Abdomen white, sometimes with faint brownish dorsal line. 

 Forewings cleft to |, segments rather narrow, ecjual, pointed ; 

 white, sometimes much mixed with light brownish suffusion ; 

 anterior half Avith a few scattered dark fuscous "scales or much 

 irrorated with dark fuscous ; a moderate oblique fascia of dark 

 fuscous irroration from costa beyond base of cleft to middle of 

 dorsum ; both segments more or less sprinkled with dark fuscous, 

 on posterior half with dark fuscous streak along lower margin of 

 first and nearly along upper margin of second : cilia white, on 

 lower margin of both segments with brownish postmedian and 

 apical patches. Hindwings rather dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Canada, Toroiito, iu August (Parish) ; two specimens. 



Pterophorus discors, n. sp. 



J 2 ■ l--i3 mm. Head brown, forehead broadly white. 

 Palpi 1, slender, dark brown. Thorax whitish. Abdomen 

 whitish, with dorsal stripe of dark fuscous suft'usion. Middle 

 tibiae white with dark grey apical band, and whitish median 

 and apical scale-tufts above, posterior legs white, tibiae sprinkled 

 with fuscous before apex. Forewings cleft to 5-, segments mode- 

 rate, pointed ; ochreous-whitish, with a few scattered fuscous 



