236 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricidce, 



The remarkable fact with which we are at present 

 concerned is that a species, differing in no essential 

 particular from the South American representatives of 

 the genus, has been found by Mr. Gooch in South 

 Africa ; and this is the more remarkable since it is 

 known to be associated there with Eustixis flavivittella, 

 Eccopsis wahlbergiana, Zell., and Compsoctena primella, 

 Zell., as well as with several species of Cryptolechia, 

 whose representatives in the New World are also so 

 nearly allied to them in structure and appearance. 



I have received, through the kindness of Mr. H. Doer, 

 of Eio Janeiro, amongst other interesting Lepidoptera, 

 two specimens, which he considered to be male and 

 female of the same species, the female being evidently a 

 species of Tiquadra, the male(?) presenting the same 

 peculiarities as the next species, figured .and described 

 in this paper under the name Ischnopsis angustella. To 

 such a remarkable degree does it approach it that, on 

 finding the same two forms in Mr. Gooch' s African 

 collection taken in the same locality and within a few 

 days of each other, I was induced to make some further 

 enquiries into the sufficiency of the evidence from which 

 the suspicion of their relationship to each other had 

 arisen. Mr. Doer is unable to assure me on this 

 point ; and as both sexes of Tiquadra have been 

 noticed, both by Prof. Zeller and Mr. Walker, I have 

 been compelled to regard the supposition as erroneous, 

 although I have placed them provisionally in juxta- 

 position in systematic order. It is at least a very 

 curious double additional instance of similarity between 

 South African and South American Lepidoptera. Prof. 

 Zeller states that the larva of a species of this genus is 

 a case-bearer. 



ISCHNOPSIS, n. g. 



Caput latum ; antennae articulo basali infra ciliato. 

 Palpi labiales porrecti, acuminati ; articulo secundo 

 incrassato nee fasciculato ; haustellum nullum. Alee 

 anticse et posticse elongatae, lanceolatse et acuminates ; 

 posticse costa post-medium emarginata ; cilia longius- 

 cula. Tibiae posticse longse, supra et infra pilosse, 

 calcaribus valde insequalibus. 



Head broad ; antennae with the basal joint fringed 

 below. Labial palpi porrected (not recurved), pointed ; 



