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a black dot towards costa near base; stigmata rather large, black, plical very 
obliquely beyond first discal, second discal approximated to tornus ; a marginal 
series of black dots round posterior part of costa and termen: cilia white. 
Hind wings with 6 and 7 long-stalked; very pale yellowish-grey; cilia whitish. 
British S.E. Africa, Bela Vista, in November (Swierstra) ; two specimens. 
Oegoconia cyrota n.sp. 
$ II mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous with a few black specks, 
shoulders irrorated with blackish. Palpi whitish-yellowish, second and terminal 
joints each with two bands of black irroration. Abdomen yellow-whitish 
sprinkled with grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, 
apex obtuse, termen rounded, rather strongly oblique ; pale ochreous-yellowish, 
irregularly sprinkled with brownish, with a few black specks; base of costa 
irrorated with black; a black dot beneath costa near base; a dot of black 
irroration on dorsum towards base; stigmata moderate, v black, plical rather 
obliquely before first discal; small opposite spots of blackish-grey irroration 
on costa and dorsum just beyond second discal: cilia light ochreous-yellowish, 
with a few black specks. Hind wings light grey; cilia yellow- whitish. 
Cape Colony, Port Elizabeth, in October (Fitzsimons) ; one specimen. 
Type in Coll. Janse. Appears to be decidedly allied to the Ceylon praevamis. 
COSMOPTERYGIDAE 
Cosmopteryx circe n.sp. 
(^10 mm. Head and thorax black with three fine white lines (face rubbed). 
Palpi white lined with black. Antennae black lined with white on basal half, 
three apical joints white, then four black, one white, one black, two white. 
(Abdomen missing.) Forewings narrow-lanceolate, apex slenderly long- 
caudate; black; a fine silvery slightly oblique subcostal line from base to near 
and short median and subdorsal silvery lines scarcely extending beyond 
extremity of this; dorsal edge white from base to ^ of wing; a dull fulvous- 
ochreous median band tinged with grey,, anteriorly edged by two golden- 
metallic spots of which the dorsal is wholly posterior, and posteriorly by a 
golden-metallic fascia hardly inwards-oblique from costa; from halfway be- 
yond this a silver}^-white streak to apex: cilia dark violet-grey, with a white 
spot on costa beyond metallic fascia. Hindwings and cilia dark grey. 
Cape Colony, East London, in February (Munro); one specimen. Type in 
Coll. Janse. 
Cosmopteryx tetrophthalma n.sp. 
d' 10 mm. Head and thorax light bronzy-ochreous, with three fine white 
lines. Palpi with second joint whitish-ochreous, scales projecting at apex 
beneath, terminal joint white lined with blackish. Antennae grey, towards 
base white lined with blackish, on apical fourth with four fine equidistant 
white rings. Abdomen ochreous, anal tuft whitish. Forewings narrow-lanceo- 
late, apex very long-caudate; light bronzy-ochreous; dorsal edge slenderly 
white from base nearly to band; fine white subcostal and median lines from 
base to band, and a fine white subdorsal line from about 4 - to band; costal 
edge white from about J to band ; a very broad orange postmedian band, in- 
cluding within itself four round golden-metallic spots, viz. subcostal and dorsal 
transversely placed towards anterior edge (subcostal hardly posterior and 
marked posteriorly with a small black dot, dorsal edged anteriorly with a 
minute black dot), and opposite costal and dorsal spots towards posterior edge; 
