Tineida, and Pterophoridae of South Africa. 283 



Head very pale brownish, with a small brown spot 

 between the antennae, which are yellowish white. Fore 

 wings yellowish white, cleft to one-third of their length, 

 the costa shaded with brown nearly to the apex, two- 

 thirds of the apical lobe being suffused with brown 

 scales ; a small darker brown costal spot slightly beyond 

 the base of the cleft, a conspicuous brown spot at the 

 base of the cleft connected by a line of brown scales, 

 with a rather narrower spot of the same colour before 

 the middle of the wing ; the cilia within the cleft and 

 below the second lobe deeply shaded with brown, which 

 is darkest at their base towards the apex ; a few brownish 

 scales also along the basal third of the dorsal margin. 

 Hind wings and cilia brown. Abdomen missing. Legs 

 yellowish white, the posterior tibiae with - slender brown 

 lines along their outer and upper sides, as well as on the 

 spurs. Expanse, 16 mm. 



One specimen taken at Pinetown at light in April. 



C- Aciptilus tripunctatus, n. s. (PI. XIII., fig. 48). 



Capite et antennis cinereis, fronte albido. Alis anticis 

 albis ; striga in basi marginis dorsalis brunnea, macula 

 costali supra basim fissurse brunnea squamis dilutioribus 

 diffusis ad marginem dorsalem ante medium oblique pro- 

 ducta ; punctis in margine laciniae anterioris duobus 

 costalibus uno dorsali, strigula in margine anteriore, et 

 puncto in margine dorsali laciniae posterioris, brunneis. 

 Ciliis dilute brunneis albo interruptis. Posticis cum 

 ciliis nitentibus dilute cinereis, punctulo subobsoleto in 

 apice extreme utriusque digiti. 



Head and antennae cinereous, the front whitish ; palpi 

 cinereous. Fore wings cleft to fully one-third of their 

 length, white, with a brown streak along the dorsal 

 margin near the base, followed by an indistinct spot of 

 the same colour before the middle, connected obliquely 

 by a line of paler brownish scales, with a conspicuous 

 brown costal spot above the base of the fissure. There 

 are three dark brown spots on the margins of the anterior 

 lobe, the first surrounded by a paler brownish costal 

 shade, the second also on the costa near the apex, the 

 third on the posterior margin, rather nearer to the apex 

 than the first. Along the middle of the anterior margin 

 of the second lobe is a brown streak, an inconspicuous 



