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XV. On the Tortricidce, Tineidce, and Pterophoridce 

 of South Africa. By LORD WALSINGHAM, M.A., 

 F.Z.S., &c. 



[Bead June 1st, 1881.] 



THROUGH the courtesy of Mr. Koland Trimen, Curator 

 of the Natural History Museum at Capetown, South 

 Africa, I have had an opportunity of examining the 

 Micro-Lepidoptera collected by Mr. W. D. Gooch, of 

 Spring Vale, Victoria County, Natal, chiefly in the 

 neighbourhood of Spring Vale, but partly in the 

 vicinity of D'Urban. Mr. Trimen informs me that 

 they form part of a large collection of Lepidoptera- 

 Heterocera, made by Mr. Gooch during the years 1873 

 to 1879, and lately acquired by the Trustees of the 

 South African Museum. 



To enable me to identify such as have already been 

 characterised it has been necessary to refer to all the 

 descriptions of South African species published up to 

 the present time. 



Very little has as yet been done to make known to 

 entomologists the Micro-Lepidoptera of South Africa. 

 Only about 78 species of Tortricidce and Tineidce have 

 been described by different authors as occurring in that 

 district. 



Professor Zeller, in the 'Linnaea Entomologica,' 

 vol. v. (1851), described Nemophora crinigerella; and in 

 vol. vi. (1852), two species of Pterophoridce. 



In the 'Handlingar Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps 

 Akadamien,' 1852, the same author described one new 

 genus, Eccopsis, and six new species of Tortricidce, 

 exclusive of Nycteolidce, but including the genus 

 Choreutis, Hub., five new genera, and thirty-one new 

 species of Tineidce and Pterophoridce, all from Mr. 

 Wahlberg's collection. 



Mr. Stainton, in the Trans. Ent. Soc., Lond., n. s., 

 vol. v., pp. 220 223 (1860), described five new species 

 of Tineidce from Natal. 



Mr. Walker, in the years 1863 to 1866, in his 

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