'220 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricidce, 



Museum,' vols. xxviii. to xxxv., described two new 

 genera and six new species of Tortricida, with six new 

 genera and twenty-seven new species of Tineidce and 

 Pterophoridce from Natal and the Transvaal. 



In 1875 Herr Pastor Wallengren, in the ' Ofversigt 

 Af. Kongl. Vet. Akad. For.,' 1875, Arg. 32, pp. 127130, 

 described five new species of Tineidce and one new 

 Alucita; and, in the same year, Messrs. F elder and 

 Eogenhofer figured eight species as new in the ' Eeise der 

 Fregatte Novara.' 



Thus the whole number of South African species in 

 the above-named groups (including also the Alucitida), 

 which have been distinguished up to the present time, 

 amount to 92 only, and this number must be somewhat 

 reduced, as I propose to show in the course of the 

 present paper, by the necessary rectification of their 

 synonymy. 



The examination of Mr. Gooch's collection has been 

 very instructive ; not only has it been found to contain 

 many new and interesting forms, but the necessary 

 study of the work already done has made me acquainted 

 with the typical species, upon which no less than eleven 

 genera have been founded, although four of these cannot 

 rightly be retained. It is much to be regretted that 

 many of Mr. Gooch's specimens are not in sufficiently 

 good condition to warrant their description, and that for 

 this reason it has been necessary to pass over much new 

 material which might otherwise have been made avail- 

 able to increase our very limited acquaintance with these 

 local forms. 



The following, so far as I am able to ascertain, is a 

 complete list of described South African Tortricida, 

 Tineidce, Pterophoridce, and Alucitidce, up to the present 

 time. It will be found to include descriptions of several 

 new specific and some new generic forms from Mr. 

 Gooch's collection, with the addition of a few species 

 from my own cabinet, and two from the British 

 Museum. 



I have endeavoured to make the list somewhat more 

 useful by pointing out the synonymy of the genera and 

 species wherever sufficient evidence has been found to 

 enable me to determine it, as well as by making a few 

 notes upon the typical specimens in the collection at the 

 British Museum where Mr. Walker's descriptions have 

 seemed to require additions or corrections. 



