1908.] AFRICAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 721 



groimd-colovir more or less whitish-suffused between these : dorsal 

 ai-ea marked with irregular pale leaden-grey lines, and some 

 scattered blackish-fuscous marks, with a narrow blackish-fuscous 

 patch or streak along dorsum from near base to about f, and a 

 small irregular ill-defined blackish-fuscous dorsal spot at |- ; costa 

 blackish -fuscous, with more or less paired silvery -whitish strigulfe 

 throughout, on posterior f emitting oblique silvery-grey sti-iga? ; 

 a slender ferruginous-ochreous streak runs from middle of costa 

 through posterior margin of cell to posterior dorsal spot ; a silvery 

 mark along lower half of termen : cilia whitish-ochreous, with a 

 dark grey bar marked with dark fuscous in middle of termen, and 

 base more or less marked with dark fuscous round tornus and 

 above apex. Hind wings with 3 and 4 connate ; grey ; cilia 

 whitish, with grey subbasal line. 



Transvaal, Pretoria, in March (Janse) ; Ceylon, Patipola, 

 Maskeliya, and Diyatalawa, from March to September (G9'een, 

 Pole, Alston, Fletcher) ; eight specimens. 



Cydia psammacta, sp. n. 



c? $. 17-19 mm. Head whitish-ochreous. Palpi with long 

 rough scales, pale fuscous, towards tip of second joint above 

 ochreous-whitish. Thorax whitish-ochreous, partially tinged with 

 brownish. Abdomen light fuscous. Fore wings elongate, costa 

 gently arched, apex obtuse, termen somewhat indented-sinuate, 

 rather oblique ; whitish-ochreous, suffusedly strigulated with 

 fuscous suffused with brownish-ochreous, except on a large clear 

 space occupying most of dorsal area towards middle, posterior 

 half suffused with bi"ownish-ochreous ; costa and dorsum shortly 

 strigulated with blackish, posterior half of costa with five pairs 

 of whitish strigulse, whence proceed oblique leaden-grey strigje ; 

 ocellus represented by an irregular silvery-grey whitish blotch, 

 cut by a slender transverse streak of ground-colour containing 

 sevei-al irregular black marks, and with some other scattered 

 black marks before and above it : cilia pale ochreous irrorated 

 with whitish, i^ound apex and upper half of termen suffused with 

 dark fuscous. Hind wings with 3 and 4 stalked ; grey ; cilia 

 whitish-grey, with darker subbasal line. 



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

 three specimens. 



Laspeyresia delineana Walk. 



[Grapholitha delineana Walk. Cat. xxviii. 389 ; G. apicatana, 

 ih. 390 ; Laspeyresia isacrna Meyr. Journ. Bomb. JST. H. Soc. xviii. 

 144.) 



Transvaal, Pi^etoria, in Januaiy (Janse) ; Mauritius, Port 

 Louis, in May. Occurs also in India and China. 



Laspeyresia tricentra Meyr. 



Transvaal, Pretoria, Pietersburg, from December to February 

 (Janse). 



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