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284 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricide, 
small spot of. the same colour lying immediately below 
it on the opposite margin of the lobe. The costal cilia 
are white, but those within the fissure and beneath the 
second lobe are brown, interrupted in the middle of each 
lobe by a white band. Hind wings and cilia pale 
cinereous, having a very small almost obsolete darker spot 
at the extreme apex of each lobe ; first and second pairs of 
legs white, streaked with brown, the third pair white, with 
a& conspicuous brown spot above at the first pair of 
spurs. The tarsi slightly shaded with cinereous. Ex- 
panse, 18 mm. 
Two specimens from Spring Vale taken at light in 
November. 
ALUCITIDA. 
Auvcita, Zeller. 
Alucita butleri, Wallgr., Of. Af. Kongl. Vet. Akad. 
For., 1875, Arg. 32, p. 180. 
Transvaal. 
Alucita fortis, n.s. (Pl. XIII, fig. 49). 
Capite, thorace, et antennis dilute griseo-fuscis ; palpis 
eriseo-fuscis, plene vestitis, quam capite et thorace 
longioribus porrectis. Alis anticis subalbidis, costa 
albido et griseo-fusco maculata, plaga basali oblique 
marginata in costa latiore griseo-fusca, fascia mediali 
anguste et margine apicali late griseo-fuscis ; posticis 
subalbidis ultra medium dilute griseo-fusco latius adum- 
bratis, linea submarginali anguste interne reduplicata 
griseo-fusca. 
Antenne, head, and thorax pale greyish fuscous; 
palpi greyish fuscous, densely clothed, projecting more 
than the length of the head and thorax beyond the front. 
Fore wings dingy whitish, the costal lobe mottled with 
ereyish fuscous; a basal patch covering about one- 
fourth of the wing, its outer margin oblique, widest 
on the costa, greyish fuscous ; a greyish fuscous narrow 
inwardly oblique central fascia, well defined on its inner, 
eradually shaded off on its outer, edge. The apical 
margin is rather widely greyish fuscous, a slender whitish 
line crossing the lobes before the extreme margin ; a pale 
ereyish fuscous shade lies half-way between the central 
fascia and the marginal shade. Hind wings of the 
same dingy whitish colour as the fore wings, with a 
