Tineidce, and Pterophoridce of South Africa. 265 



Head and thorax whitish grey ; palpi erect, arching 

 over the vertex, whitish grey, streaked and spotted with 

 greyish fuscous ; the second joint with a widely project- 

 ing semicircular tuft of long closely-packed coarse scales 

 beneath ; the apical joint with two small appressed tufts 

 above. Antennae with the basal joint slightly enlarged, 

 dirty whitish, annulated with greyish fuscous. Fore 

 wings whitish grey, with a slight pinkish tinge, irr orated 

 with brownish fuscous scales, and with a few single 

 widely scattered steel-blue metallic scales chiefly about 

 the darker markings. A somewhat quadrangular fuscous 

 spot lies scarcely above the middle of the wing; the 

 costa above it slightly shaded ; a costal blotch of about 

 the same size before the apex, and a smaller spot 

 between the two are of the same colour ; the apical 

 margin is also narrowly fuscous ; cilia whitish grey. 

 Hind wings cinereous-fuscous, with a narrow semi- 

 transparent steel-blue streak beneath the costal vein, 

 and a tuft of long cinereous-fuscous scales arising from 

 the base of the dorsal vein, but apparently not erect. 

 Expanse, 21 mm. 



One specimen. Spring Vale, among trees ; December. 



YPSOLOPHUS, Fabricius. 



Ypsolophusfurvellus, Zell., Handlingar Kong. Svensk. 

 Vetens. Akad., 1852, p. 115. 



Ypsolophus latipalpis, n. s. (PI. XII., fig. 35). 



Capite palpis et antennis griseo et fusco atomosis. 

 Palpis porrectis articulo secundo supra anguste infra 

 late fasciculate ; articulo apicali brevi filiforme ; externe 

 fusco suffusis. Alis anticis angustis elongatis (margine 

 apicali obliquo) brunneo-fuscis ; apud basim et in margine 

 costali ante apicem griseo atomosis ; linea angusta in 

 basi ciliorum marginis apicalis ochrea. Posticis sub- 

 nitidis dilute griseis vix purpurascentibus ; linea in basi 

 ciliorum dilute ochrea. 



Head, palpi and antennae speckled with grey and 

 fuscous, the palpi very considerably prominent ; the 

 second joint with a narrow gradually attenuated tuft on 

 its upper side, a wider and far projecting tuft on its 

 under side, both laterally compressed ; the apical joint 

 obliquely erect, short and filiform ; both much tinged on 



