1908.] AFRICAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 723 



TORTRIX CAPENSANA "Walk, 



{Teras capensana Walk. Cat. xxviii. 295 ; T. reciprocana, ib. 

 295 ; T. 7neridionana, ib. 295 ; Tortrix ccqntana Feld. Reis. iSTov. 

 pi. cxxxix. 48, 49 ; Cacoecia adustana Wals. Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond. 1881, 222, pi. x. 1 ; LozoUenia dorsiplagana, ib. 223, 

 pi. X. 2.) 



I am of opinion that all these names represent only one variable 

 species, which is common and generally distributed in Transvaal, 

 Natal, and Cape Colony, and is a true Tortrix. 



Tortrix iocoma, sp. n. 



(S . 18-22 mm. Head orange. Palpi moderate, porrected, 

 ochreovis-orange, sometimes sprinkled with fuscous. Thorax pale 

 ochreous-yellowish, anterioi'ly suffused with orange. Abdomen 

 light ochreous-yellowish. Fore wings elongate, hardly dilated, 

 costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, rather 

 oblique ; light ochreous-yellowish, costa slightly yellower : cilia 

 pale yellowish. Hind wings very pale gi'ey, suffused with whitish- 

 3'ellowish towards costa and apex ; cilia pale yellowish. 



Transvaal, N.E. Pretoria district, in December and January 

 (Janse) ; four specimens. 



Tortrix agroeca, sp. n. 



c5' . 20 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax brownish-ochreous, palp 

 moderate, porrected. Abdomen dark grey, anal tuft light yellowish. 

 Fore wings suboblong, slightly dilated posteriorly, costa gently 

 arched near base, thence nearly straight, apex obtuse, termen 

 nearly straight, rather oblique ; brownish-ochreous : cilia light 

 brownish-ochreous. Hind wings fuscous-grey finely irrorated 

 with blackish ; cilia pale brownish-ochreous. 



Transvaal, Pretoria district, in December (Janse) • one 

 specimen. 



GELECHIADiE. 



Paltodora psacasta, sp. n. 



c? ? . 12-14 mm. Head and thorax whitish-yellowish. Palpi 

 yellow-whitish, lower half of second joint fuscous, tuft short, 

 spreading. Antennae fuscous. Abdomen yellow-whitish, in c? 

 with a central black spot. Fore wings elongate, very narrow, 

 costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; 

 whitish-yellow, with brassy reflections ; plical and second discal 

 stigmata black ; some light brown suffusion, sometimes sprinkled 

 with darker fuscous, forming usually a streak along basal 1 of 

 costa, a spot resting on plical stigma, a smaller spot obliquely 

 above and beyond this, a small spot before tornus, a larger spot 

 on costa at |-, a patch between second discal stigma and termen, 

 and an apical patch, but these vary somewhat in development : 

 cilia whitish -yellowish, above apex with a fuscous spot, sometimes 

 with two or three cloudy fuscous antemedian dots on termen. 



