Tineide, and Pterophoride of South Africa. 265 
Head and thorax whitish grey; palpi erect, arching 
over the vertex, whitish grey, streaked and spotted with 
greyish fuscous; the second joint with a widely project- 
ing semicircular tuft of long closely-packed coarse scales 
beneath ; the apical joint with two small appressed tufts 
above. Antenne with the basal joint slightly enlarged, 
dirty whitish, annulated with ereyish fuscous. Fore 
wings whitish erey, with a slight pinkish tinge, irrorated 
with brownish fuscous scales, and with a few single 
widely scattered steel-blue metallic scales chiefly about 
the darker markings. A somewhat quadrangular fuscous 
spot lies scarcely above the middle of the wing; the 
costa above it slightly shaded; a costal blotch of about 
the same size before the apex, and a smaller spot 
between the two are of the same colour; the apical 
margin is also narrowly fuscous; cilia whitish grey. 
Hind wings cinereous-fuscous, with a narrow semi- 
transparent steel-blue streak beneath the costal vein, 
and a tuft of long cinereous-fuscous scales arising from 
the base of the dorsal vein, but apparently not “erect. 
Expanse, 21 mm. 
One specimen. Spring Vale, among trees; December. 
YpsoLopuus, Fabricius. 
Ypsolophus furvellus, Zell., Handlingar Kong. Svensk. 
Vetens. Akad., 1852, p. 115. 
Ypsolophus latipalpis, n.s. (Pl. XII., fig. 35). 
Capite palpis et antennis griseo et fusco atomosis. 
Palpis porrectis articulo secundo supra anguste infra 
late fasciculato; articulo apicali brevi filiforme ; externe 
fusco suffusis. Alis anticis angustis elongatis (margine 
apicali obliquo) brunneo-fuscis ; apud basim et in margine 
costali ante apicem griseo atomosis; linea angusta in 
basi ciliorum marginis apicalis ochrea. Posticis sub- 
nitidis dilute griseis vix purpurascentibus; linea in basi 
ciliorum dilute ochrea. 
Head, palpi and antenne speckled with grey and 
fuscous, the palpi very considerably prominent; the 
second joint with a narrow gradually attenuated tuft on 
its upper side, a wider and far projecting tuft on its 
under side, both laterally compressed; the apical joint 
obliquely erect, short and filiform ; both much tinged on 
