Tineide, and Pterophoride of South Africa. 288 
Head very pale brownish, with a small brown spot 
between the antenne, which are yellowish white. Fore 
wings yellowish white, cleft to one-third of their length, 
the costa shaded with brown nearly to the apex, two- 
thirds of the apical lobe being suffused with brown 
scales ; a small darker brown costal spot slightly beyond 
the base of the cleft, a conspicuous brown spot at the 
base of the cleft connected by a line of brown scales, 
with a rather narrower spot of the same colour before 
the middle of the wing; the cilia within the cleft and 
below the second lobe deeply shaded with brown, which 
is darkest at their base towards the apex ; a few brownish 
scales also along the basal third of the dorsal margin. 
Hind wings and cilia brown. Abdomen missing. Legs 
yellowish white, the posterior tibiz with slender brown 
lines along their outer and upper sides, as well as on the 
spurs. Expanse, 16 mm. 
One specimen taken at Pinetown at light in April. 
Aciptilus tripunctatus, n.s. (Pl. XIII, fig. 48). 
Capite et antennis cinereis, fronte albido. Alis anticis 
albis; striga in basi marginis dorsalis brunnea, macula 
costali supra basim fissure brunnea squamis dilutioribus 
diffusis ad marginem dorsalem ante medium oblique pro- 
ducta; punctis in margine lacinie anterioris duobus 
costalibus uno dorsali, strigula in margine anteriore, et 
puncto in margine dorsali lacinie posterioris, brunneis. 
Ciliis dilute brunneis albo interruptis. Posticis cum 
ciliis nitentibus dilute cinereis, punctulo subobsoleto in 
apice extremo utriusque digiti. 
Head and antenne cinereous, the front whitish ; palpi 
cinereous. Fore wings cleft to fully one-third of their 
length, white, with a brown streak along the dorsal 
margin near the base, followed by an indistinct spot of 
the same colour before the middle, connected obliquely 
by a line of paler brownish scales, with a conspicuous 
brown costal spot above the base of the fissure. There 
are three dark brown spots on the margins of the anterior 
lobe, the first surrounded by a paler brownish costal 
shade, the second also on the costa near the apex, the 
third on the posterior margin, rather nearer to the apex 
than the first. Along the middle of the anterior margin 
of the second lobe is a brown streak, an inconspicuous 
