Tineida, and Pterophoridce of South Africa. 231 



fusco adumbratis excepta plaga costali elongata ante 

 medium. Posticis brunneo-fuscis. 



Head and thorax greyish ; palpi greyish, much shaded 

 on the end of the second joint and on the short apical 

 joint with fuscous. Antennae greyish. Fore wings (with 

 the costa slightly waved, the apex depressed, the apical 

 margin slightly oblique) whitish, with a strong fuscous 

 patch stretching over nearly two-thirds of their length, 

 having its outer margin oblique and somewhat irregularly 

 denned; an elongated patch of the whitish ground 

 colour running along the costal margin before the 

 middle, extending to the base, surrounded by the fuscous 

 shade, and containing some small fuscous costal spots 

 and streaklets, which are again repeated beyond the 

 middle. Towards the apex is an olivaceous costal shade, 

 and an inconspicuous olivaceous streak crossing from 

 the costa to the middle of the apical margin. Hind 

 wings brownish fuscous, their costal margin whitish. 

 Two females ; expanse, 19 mm. 



" D'Urban and Spring Vale ; to light in garden, 

 September and November." 



Having only two female specimens from which to 

 describe this species, it must be somewhat uncertain 

 whether I have rightly placed it in the genus Eccopsis. 

 The coloration is almost exactly that of a Penthina, but 

 the shape of the wings is remarkably similar to those of 

 the supposed Eccopsis ivahlbergiana, mentioned above, as 

 well as to those of many species of the North American 

 genus, Exartema* 



APHELIA, Stephens. 

 ^ Aphelia lanceolana. .* , v 



Aphelia lanceolana, Hub., Wocke Cat., No. 1006. 

 Bactra stagnicolana, Zell., Handlingar Kong. Svensk. 



Vetens. Akad., 1852, p. 84. . 

 Ancylolomia siccella, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., 



xxxv., p. 1750. 



I find in Mr. Gooch's collection three specimens, 

 which do not appear to differ in any greater degree from 

 some of the European varieties of Aphelia lanceolana, 



* See footnote on preceding page. 

 TRANS. ENT. SOC. 1881. PART II. (JULY.) 2 H 



