Cridigns) 
XV. On the Tortricide, Tineide, and Pterophoride 
of South Africa. By Lorp WaALsINGHAM, M.A., 
¥.Z.8., &c. 
|Read June Ist, 1881.] 
Turovan the courtesy of Mr. Roland Trimen, Curator 
of the Natural History Museum at Capetown, South 
Africa, I have had an opportunity of examining the 
Micro-Lepidoptera collected by Mr. W. D. Gooch, of 
Spring Vale, Victoria County, Natal, chiefly in the 
neighbourhood _ of Spring Vale, but partly in the 
vieinity of D’Urban. Mr. Trimen informs me that 
they form part of a large collection of Lepidoptera- 
Heterocera, made by Mr. Gooch during the years 1873 
to 1879, and lately acquired by the Trustees of the 
South African Museum. 
To enable me to identify such as have already been 
characterised it has been necessary to refer to all the 
descriptions of South African species published up to 
the present time. 
Very little has as yet been done to make known to 
entomologists the Micro-Lepidoptera of South Africa. 
Only about 78 species of Tortricide and Tineide have 
been described by different authors as occurring in that 
district. 
Professor Zeller, in the ‘Linnea Entomologica,’ 
vol. v. (1851), described Nemophora erinigerella; and in 
vol. vi. (1852), two species of Pterophoride. 
In the ‘Handlingar Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps 
Akadamien,’ 1852, the same author described one new 
genus, Lccopsis, and six new species of Tortricidae, 
exclusive of Nycteolide, but including the genus 
Choreutis, Hub., five new genera, and thirty-one new 
species of Tineide and Pterophoride, all from Mr. 
Wahlberg’s collection. 
Mr. Stainton, in the Trans. Ent. Soc., Lond., n.8s., 
vol. v., pp. 220—228 (1860), described five new species 
of Tineide from Natal. 
Mr. Walker, in the years 1863 to 1866, in his 
‘Catalogue of Lepidoptera-Heterocera in the British 
TRANS. ENT. soc. 1881.—PART II. (JULY.) 
