1908.] AFRICAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 719 



with dark fuscous. Palpi dark fuscous. Thorax with double 

 jjosterior crest, pale ochreous, broadly suffused laterally with dark 

 fuscous, sometimes mixed with ferruginous. Abdomen rather 

 dark fuscous, in c? with large expansible pale greyish-ochreous 

 genital tuft. Posterior tibite in S with very large dense brush 

 of greyish-white hairs above, including a blackish-grey tuft towards 

 apex. Fore wings elongate-triangular, costa moderately arched , 

 apex obtuse, termen almost straight, somewhat oblique ; in ^ with 

 rather strong dorsal scale-projections towards base and beyond 

 middle ; light brownish or brownish-ochreous, obscurely strigu- 

 lated with whitish, especially in c? towards dorsum and termen ; 

 most of wing except dorsum and termen in c? irroi-ated with 

 fuscous-crimson and strigulated with black, in $ largely suffused 

 with dark fuscous sometimes mixed with dull crimson, posterior 

 edge of this area in $ well-defined and forming a blunt wedge- 

 shaped projection extending downwards from upper half to near 

 termen before middle, in c? indicated but inconspicuous ; costa 

 marked with some pale strigulse, and in c? with several small 

 fuscous- crimson and black spots ; sometimes a distinct pale 

 greenish discal dot beyond middle ; a semioval olive-greenish oi- 

 dark reddish -fuscous patch mixed with black occupying anterior 

 half of dorsum, its central area more or less suffused with whitish- 

 ochreous, especially in c? ; an acute-triangular olive-greenish spot 

 mixed with black on dorsum before tornus : cilia whitish-fuscous, 

 irrorated and barred on upper half of termen with ferruginous, 

 on lower half with blackish. Hind Avings in (S with a deep semi- 

 cii-cular excavation on termen above tornus ; dark fuscous, darker 

 posteriorly ; in <5 vein 1 b clothed with rough whitish hairs ; cilia 

 whitish-grey, with grey subbasal shade. 



Cape Colony, Eastern portion ; ISTatal ; Transvaal ; Rhodesia ; 

 bred in July and August from larvae feeding on citrous fruits,, 

 stone-fruits, and guavas, sometimes doing extensive damage 

 [Lounshury) ; four specimens. 



EUCOSMA LEUCOPETRA, Sp. n. 



c5' . 12-14 mm. Head whitish, sides of crown suffused with 

 ochreous. Palpi moderate, porrected, second joint with long rough 

 projecting scales above and beneath ; white, second joint tinged 

 with pale brownish-ochreous. Thorax whitish, iri-egularly tinged 

 with brownish and spotted with dark fuscous. Abdomen fuscous, 

 more or less suffused with yellowish or whitish towards base, anal 

 tuft whitish-ochreous. Fore wings elongate, somewhat dilated 

 posteriorly, costa slightly arched, fold extending to f , apex obtuse, 

 termen slightly indented above middle, rather oblique ; ferruginous- 

 ochreous, often more or less suffused with fuscous, variably and 

 irregularly strigulated with white and dark fuscous ; posterior -f- 

 of costa with five pairs of oblique white strigulse, whence proceed 

 short irregular leaden-metallic strigaj ; a large irregular suffused 

 white median dorsal blotch, including several grey sti'igulse ; 

 ocellus large, white, irregular, containing several pale metallic - 

 Proc. Zool. Soc— 1908, No. XLVT. 46 



