16 Mr. A. J. T. Janse on new South African 



According to the British Museum, this species comes 

 close to C. mesiella Hmpsn. 



Palpi are porrect and a little over three times length of 

 head; in female four times head. Antennae in male 

 uniserrate and ciliate and in female ciUated only. 



Commotria leucosparsalis, sp. n. 



Male and female. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen on under- 

 side and ground-colour of fore-wing warm bufi (xv); abdomen 

 above light orange- yellow (iii); legs warm buff sprinkled with 

 white scales and hairs ; tarsi on outer side avellaneous (xl), terminally 

 ringed with warm buflf; palpi at sides, thorax here and there and 

 fore-wing at inner- marginal area sparsely sprinkled with fuscous- 

 black (xlvi) ; in two specimens from Sawmills the palpi, thorax 

 and ground-colour of fore- wing are more cinnamon-buff (xxix) and 

 the fuscous-black irroration is more dense; fore- wing with costal 

 area as far as the lower median and especially on the veins well 

 irrorated with white scales ; veins 1& and 2 postmedial area between 

 veins 2 to 5, and the terminal area as far as vein 2 also irrorated 

 with white scales ; costa at base with rufous (xiv) scaling ; a fuscous- 

 black elongated antemedial spot on vein 16 and similar striga above 

 it on lower median and discal fold, the two spots connected by an 

 outwardly curved irroration suggesting the antemedial line; some 

 well-marked irroration below it to inner margin; medial line from 

 middle of inner margin to lower angle and some irroration on disco- 

 cellulars; two narrow fuscous-black striga from disco-cellulars to 

 postmedial line, one on vein 5 and one on vein 6; a fuscous-black 

 elongated postmedial series of points on veins 16, and 3" to 7, those 

 on 6 and 7 often obsolete; a series of terminal fuscous- black spots 

 between veins 16 to 7 ; the costal half of the wing here and there 

 sprinkled with rufous (xiv) scales, which are absent in the " Saw- 

 mills " specimens, these, however, have more fuscous-black and 

 even black irroration and a corresponding decrease of white 

 scaling; cilia of ground-colour and with two transverse lines pro- 

 duced by fuscous and white scales mixed. Hind- wing sub-hyaline, 

 light buff (xv) and tinged on the veins, costal and terminal area 

 with buff-brown (xl) ; cilia of ground-colour with one buffy-brown 

 transverse line at Jrd. 



Underside: — Both wings with ground-colour light buff but fore- 

 wing densely irrorated and hind- wing slightly tinged at costal 

 area with fuscous; cilia as above, but on fore- wing without the 

 white scales. 



Antennae of male unipectinate for two-thirds, branches over 



