Tineide, and Pterophoride of South Africa. 255 
is another narrow brownish oblique fascia. Cilia creamy 
white. Hind wings and cilia whitish cinereous, with 
two subobsolete brownish costal streaks before the apex. 
Expanse, 15 mm. 
Three specimens. ‘‘ Spring Vale and D’Urban, July, 
September, and October.” 
This insect has the palpi of a Cryptolechia, but the 
form of its wings is so different from that of the majority 
of species, from various parts of the world, which have 
been placed in this genus by different authors, that 
I should have hesitated to include it among them had I 
not been able to compare it with specimens of the 
preceding species, from which Professor Zeller originally 
characterised the genus; from these it cannot be con- 
sidered generically distinct. 
Cryptolechia castella, Zell., Handlingar Kong. Svensk. 
Vetens. Akad. 1852, pp. 107, 108; Walk., Cat. 
Lep. Het., B. M., xxix. 745. 
Cryptolechia eariasella, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., 
xxix. 746. 
Cryptolechia heresiella, Wallgr., Of. Af. Kongl. Vet. 
Akad. For., 1875, Arg. 32, pp. 128, 129. 
Cryptolechia dilutella, n.s. (Pl. X1., fig. 23). 
Capite (capillis aliquot hirsutis), palpis antennis et 
thorace dilute albido-ochraceis. Alis anticis dilute albido- 
ochraceis, punctis duobus in cellula tertio postice in 
plica, et serie arcuata punctorum ante marginem 
apicalem subobsoletis fuscescentibus, serie in margine 
apicali paulo distinctiore. Squamis elongatis prope basi 
marginis dorsalis in penicillo appresso collectis. Posticis 
dilute cinereis, ciliis dilutioribus. 
Head rather rough, together with the thorax, palpi, 
and antenne pale whitish ochreous. Fore wings pale 
whitish ochreous, the costa very faintly and narrowly 
shaded with ochreous; a small patch of elongated 
scales on the dorsal margin near the base, forming an 
appressed tuft, a small fuscous discal spot a little above 
the middle of the wing at one-fourth from the base, 
followed by another nearly obsolete spot towards the end 
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