a 
Tineide, and Pterophoride of South Africa. 245 
wings much elongated, fully four times as long as wide, 
pale whitish drab, with a series of small cinereous mar- 
ginal spots, of which six are costal, being placed gradually 
closer to each other as they approach the apex, and 
seven or eight others are on the apical margins reaching 
round to the anal angle; a spot of a similar colour lies 
at the end of the disc, and several smaller cinereous dots 
and scales are scattered more or less conspicuously 
over the surface of the wing; hind wings scarcely 
shining, very pale cinereous. [Hixpanse, 19 mm. 
Two males. 
‘“‘T)’Urban (West Park) ; in bush, afternoon, July.” 
Nemophora turpisella, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., 
XXVill., p. 497. 
Mr. Gooch’s collection contains six specimens of this 
species. I have also a specimen in my own cabinet from 
Bedford, S. Africa, for which I am indebted to the kind- 
ness of Mr. Herbert Druce. 
The base of the costal margin of the fore wings is 
distinctly brown, the “three irregular brown lines” 
described by Mr. Walker forming oblique disintegrated 
fascia, tending outwards from the dorsal to the costal 
margin. Hind wings brownish, much darker than in the 
following species. 
These came to light at Spring Vale in November and 
December. 
Nemophora alternipunctella, n.s. (Pl. XL, fig. 14). 
Capite albo subfusco irrorato; antennis quam alis 
anticis ter longioribus albidis. Alis anticis albis, brunneo- 
fusco profuse punctatis et maculatis. Striga angusta in 
basi coste, maculis tribus costalibus tribus dorsalibus 
alternantibus brunneo-fuscis. Posticis dilute sub- 
ochraceo-cinereis dimidio postico ciliorum dilutiore. 
Head white, speckled with fuscous. Antenne dingy 
whitish, three times the length of the fore wings. Fore 
wings rounded, white, profusely dotted with brownish 
fuscous, with a narrow brownish fuscous streak along 
the base of the costa, and three costal and three dorsal 
brownish fuscous spots placed alternately, each dorsal 
spot being placed before the corresponding spot on the 
