ANNALS 
MEDEDELING 
OF THE 
VAN HET 
TRANSVAAL MUSEUM 
IAR 28 1919 
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Jj /0 nal 
Vol. 6 
Part 2 
DESCRIPTIONS OF SOUTH AFRICAN 
MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA 
By E. Meyrick, B.A., F.R.S. 
PTEROPHORIDAE 
Platyptilia bullifera n.sp. 
$ 20 mm. Head pale brownish, face and sides of crown whitish. Palpi 2J , 
brownish mixed with dark fuscous, base and apex white. Thorax pale 
brownish, posteriorly whitish. Abdomen whitish, on sides and posteriorly 
mixed with fuscous. Forewings cleft to beyond f , second segment narrow at 
base and posteriorly dilated, apex pointed, termen of first segment concave, 
oblique, of second concave, little oblique; pale brownish suffusedly irrorated 
with white except towards anterior half of costa, towards costa suffused with 
reddish-fuscous, costal edge suffused with dark fuscous towards middle; a 
trapezoidal dark reddish-fuscous spot crossing middle of first segment, 
narrowed downwards, edged anteriorly with white suffusion broader towards 
costa, and posteriorly by a white line ; a trapezoidal dark reddish-fuscous spot 
occupying basal half of second segment; both segments beyond these markings 
light red-brownish sprinkled with white: cilia whitish, on costal spot dark 
fuscous, on termen with basal third brown edged by a dark fuscous line, twice 
interrupted with white on first segment, within cleft grey mixed with whitish 
on lower margin of first segment, on dorsum with three dark grey patches tipped 
with black, viz. one moderate at f of wing, one narrow beneath cleft, and one 
broad from near this to tornus. Hindwings dark grey, third segment f of 
first; cilia grey, tinged with whitish on lower angle of second segment, on 
dorsum with an inconspicuous tooth of three or four blackish-tipped scales 
at f of third segment, and three or four scattered similar scales near before 
this. 
Zululand, Eshowe, in January (Janse); one specimen. A very distinct 
species, of early type. 
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