Tineidce, and Pterophorida of South Africa. 233 



margine apicali obliquo, obscure brunneo-fuscis ; posticis 

 dilute fusco-griseis. 



Head, palpi, antennae and thorax brownish fuscous, 

 with a slight greyish tinge ; the palpi projecting about 

 the length of the head beyond it; antennae simple. 

 Fore wings elongate-acuminate, with the costa slightly 

 rounded ; the apical margin oblique ; very slightly 

 indented below the pointed apex; unicolorous dark 

 brownish fuscous. Hind wings about the same width as 

 the fore wings ; pale greyish fuscous, cilia the same. 

 Abdomen missing. Expanse, 19 mm. 



One male. At D 'Urban, taken at light. 



PHOXOPTEKIS, Treitschke. 

 Phoxopteris natalana, n. s. (PI. X., fig. 9). 



Alis anticis falcatis dilute argillaceis ; umbra ferruginea 

 externe prope apicem acuminata et strigulis costalibus 

 ante medium fuscis ultra medium dilute argillaceis ; 

 margine apicali peranguste fusco, ciliis argillaceis fer- 

 rugineo finitis. Posticis cinereis. 



Head pale reddish ochreous ; palpi projecting about 

 the length of the head beyond it ; the apical joint and 

 the surrounding scales which project from the second 

 joint fuscous; antennas tinged with ferruginous. Fore 

 wings pale argillaceous, much shaded with ferruginous, 

 which forms an acute angle before the falcate apex, 

 leaving on the space above the anal angle a patch of the 

 plain ground colour : this ferruginous shade contains 

 above the middle of the wing and about the end of the 

 cell a longitudinal reduplicated and somewhat diffused 

 blackish fuscous streak, and below it two or three 

 slender diverging lines of the paler ground colour. , On 

 the costa before the middle are five or six small oblique 

 fuscous streaks, beyond the middle is a ferruginous 

 shade interrupted by a series of reduplicated pale streaks 

 each centred with a few dark fuscous scales at the base ; 

 the first of these streaks follows the upper edge of the 

 ferruginous discal shade from the middle of the costa 

 nearly to its extreme angle near the apical margin, 

 where it almost joins the point of the last streak nearest 

 to the apex ; a slender dark fuscous line indicates the 

 apical margin at the base of the pale cilia, which are 



