4.88 Mr. E. Meyrick’s Notes and 
secondly from 4, segments moderate ; reddish-fuscous ; cilia grey, 
on dorsum with a few scattered brownish and blackish scales from 
base to ?. 
TRANSVAAL (N.E. Pretoria district), in January (Janse) ; 
five specimens. 
Platyptilia xylopsamma, un. sp. 
9.28mm. Head light yellow-ochreous sprinkled with whitish, 
frontal tuft moderate. Palpi 24, pale yellow-ochreous sprinkled 
with fuscous, white beneath and at apex. Antenne whitish- 
ochreous, above with a dark fuscous line. Thorax brownish- 
ochreous sprinkled with whitish, especially on patagia, which are 
somewhat expanded towards apex. Abdomen whitish-ochreous, 
faintly streaked with brownish. Legs whitish, lined with dark 
fuscous (posterior pair broken). Fore-wings cleft from $, segments 
broad, termen of first somewhat sinuate, of second very slightly 
bent, oblique ; brownish-ochreous, slightly sprinkled with whitish, 
dorsal half suffused with pale whitish-ochreous from base to cleft ; 
costal edge very shortly strigulated with dark fuscous on basal 
third ; a small round dark fuscous spot in dise at 4, and another 
tending to form a transverse mark close before and beneath cleft; a 
mark of dark fuscous suffusion along costa above cleft, followed by 
a white mark mostly in costal cilia: cilia pale greyish-ochreous, on 
termen with basal half rather dark fuscous, on dorsum with a 
greyish bar beneath cleft. Hind-wings cleft firstly from before 
middle, secondly from 4, first segment considerably dilated, second 
moderate ; ferruginous-fuscous; cilia pale greyish, within cleft 
mostly suffused with very pale ochreous, on termen of first segment 
darker grey on basal half, on dorsum with a series of short dark 
fuscous scales from base to 2. 
CoLorapo, U.S., 7,000 feet ; one specimen. 
ATUCTTALE 
In the fore-wings the principal vein remaining in the 
first segment should be regarded as vein 7, not 8. 
Alucita lacteipennis, Walk. 
(Aciptilus lacteipennis, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat. 949.) 
3 ?. 24-28 mm. Head, antenne, and thorax white, collar 
sometimes sprinkled with grey. Palpi white, sometimes slightly 
