720 MR. E. MEYRIOK ON [Juiie 16, 



grey spots in two transverse series, and two black dots between 

 those ; sometimes several other black dots scattered round this : 

 oilia dark reddish-grey finely irrorated with white, on tornus with 

 ■Sb white patch. Hind wings with 3 and 4 stalked ; grey ; cilia 

 pale grey or whitish -grey, with faint darker subbasal line. 



Transvaal, Pretoria disti-ict, in December, January, and July 

 {Janse) ; seven specimens. 



Crocidosema plebeian a Z. 



Transvaal, Pretoria, Pietersburg, January to May {Janse). 



1 take the oppoi'tunity of noting that Steganoptycha ohscura 

 E. Woll., described from St. Helena, is certainly a synonym of 

 this species, which is now common in suitable localities in all 

 quarters of the globe, doubtless artificially introduced with its 

 food-plant in gardens. The genus is hardly worth sepai-ating from 

 Gydia, the single species agi-eeing in all respects except the peculiar 

 tuft of hind wings in S • 



Cydia tumulata, sp. n. 



$ . 16 mm. Head and thorax pale brownish-ochreous, crown 

 ■with a dark fuscous central stripe. Palpi pale brownish-ochreous 

 sprinkled with fuscous. Abdomen grey. Fore wings elongate, 

 posteriorly dilated, costa gently ai-ched, apex obtuse, termen 

 sinuate, little oblique ; pale brownish-ochreous, iriegularly mixed 

 and spotted with grey, with scattered dark fuscous and black 

 scales ; costa strigulated with dai'k fuscous, between these whitish- 

 tinged, posteriorly giving rise to three oblique brown strigse 

 alternating with leaden-grey strigfe ; two dark fuscous spots on 

 dorsum, first slightly oblique at |-, second larger and somewhat 

 ■elongate-triangular at |-, space between these suflfusedly striated 

 with whitish ; ocellus indistinctly margined with leaden -meta,llic 

 a small brown apical spot ; some minute black dots on termen : 

 cilia brownish sprinkled with whitish, round apex and on upper 

 half of termen sufl'used with blackish. Hind wings with 3 and 

 4 stalked ; grey, dai-k jwsteriorly ; cilia grey. 



Transvaal, Pretoria district, in December and January {Janse) ; 

 one specimen. 



Cydia isogramma, sp. n. 



J 5 . 12-16 mm. Head fuscous, sides and face moi-e or less 

 mixed with ochreous. Palpi fuscous, second joint usually with 

 a central ochreous spot. Thorax fuscous, patagia pale ochreous. 

 Abdomen whitish-ochreous irrorated with grey. Fore wings 

 elongate, slightly dilated posteriorly, costa gently arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen sinuate-indented, little oblique ; whitish-ochreous, 

 becoming yellow-ochi-eous towards costa posteriorly and termen ; 

 margins of cell, internal veins, and veins between cell and termen 

 more or less lined with blackish-fuscous or sometimes partially 

 with pale leaden-grey, with some additional interneural lines, 



