r/i/ 



88 Lord Walsingham on 



Ceromitia wahlbergi, Z. 



Estcourt (Natal), two specimens (Hutchinson) ; Mal- 

 vern (Natal), one specimen (Bowker). 



Ceromitia turpisella, Wkr. 



Nemophora turpisella, Wkr., Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M., 

 XXVIII., 497 (1868). 



N. syn. = Agisana caffrariella, Mschl., Ver. Z.-b., 

 Ges. Wien., XXXII., 3089, PL XVI., 24 (1883). 



This species belongs properly to the genus Ceromitia, 

 but the neuration does not appear to be constant ; veins 

 8 and 9 of the fore wings being coincident at the base 

 in some specimens, although not necessarily in both 

 wings ; the separation of veins 5 and 6 of hind wings 

 is, however, a constant character. 



Annshaw (Cape Colony), one specimen (Barrett) ; Est- 

 court (Natal), one specimen (Hutchinson) ; Malvern 

 (Natal), one specimen (Bowker) ; Delagoa Bay (East 

 Africa), two specimens (Druce). 



Ceromitia alter nipunctella, Wlsm. 

 Nemophora alter nipunctella, Wlsm., Trans. Ent. Soc. 



Lond., 1881, 2456. 



This species must also be placed in Ceromitia. 

 Grahamstown (Cape Colony), one specimen (Druce). 



ADELINE. 



ADELA, Latr. 

 [PL iv., fig. 25.] 



" - Adela cuneella. sp. n. 

 .' 

 Antenna; in the $ about twice as long as the fore wings ; brownish 



above, hoary beneath, the basal third spotted with whitish on 

 the upper side. Palpi and Head very roughly clothed with long 

 hair-like scales, brownish fuscous above, hoary beneath. Thorax 

 brownish fuscous above, hoary beneath. Fore wings hoary,, 

 thickly clothed with closely-packed elongate bronzy-brown scales, 

 in some lights showing metallic lustre ; at two-thirds of the wing- 

 length is an outwardly oblique, cuneiform, whitish costal streak 

 reaching half-across the wing, margined with bronzy brown on 

 each side, the inner margin slightly darker than the outer ; at the 

 apex of the wing is a rather distinct small curved fuscous line at the 

 base of the cilia, which beyond it are white, tipped with bronzy 



