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projection posteriorly, mostly occupied anteriorly by the yellowish discal 
mark ; a blackish spot on apical portion of costa, containing two minute 
white dots, and separated from preceding by a grey-whitish spot ; a brown 
streak along termen, containing three or four minute white dots in a fine 
blackish marginal line ; cilia grey. Hindwings grey, somewhat darker 
posteriorly ; cilia grey. 
Pretoria, in March ( Janse) ■; one specimen. This belongs to the 
decurtella group, characteristic of Europe and North America. 
Phthorimaea cretigena , n. sp. 
12 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen ochreous-white. 
Forewings lanceolate, acute ; ochreous-whitish ; cilia concolorous. Hind- 
wings and cilia ochreous-whitish. 
Pretoria, in September (Janse); one specimen. 
Phthorimaea concreta , n. sp. 
$ $. 15-16 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-whitish, sometimes 
slightly sprinkled with dark grey. Palpi whitish-ochreous or ochreous- 
whitish, slightly sprinkled with dark fuscous specks. Abdomen whitish- 
ochreous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex 
pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; whitish-ochreous, sometimes 
slightly yellowish-tinged, variably sprinkled with fuscous and dark fuscous 
specks, sometimes very slightly, sometimes tending to form several unde- 
fined small spots along costa ; a dark fuscous dot near base in middle, 
and one slightly beyond it beneath costa; stigmata small, dark fuscous, 
plical beneath first discal ; sometimes dots of dark fuscous irroration 
round posterior part of costa and termen ; cilia concolorous with wing 
and similarly sprinkled. Hindwings pale grey or whitish-grey ; cilia 
whitish-ochreous, sometimes tinged with grey. 
Pretoria, in February and March (Janse) ; two specimens. Also one 
in my collection from Pinetown, Natal, in January (Leigh), more strongly 
irrorated than the others. 
Parapsectris mappigera, n. sp. 
$ $. 10-11 mm. Head and thorax white sprinkled with dark 
fuscous, shoulders blotched with dark fuscous irroration. Palpi white, 
second joint irrorated with blackish except tip, terminal joint with basal 
ring and supramedian band of blackish irroration. Abdomen grey, with 
dorsal patch of whitish-ochreous suffusion at base. Forewings elongate, 
rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen slightly rounded, 
very oblique ; 6 out of 7 near base ; brown, more or less sprinkled with 
blackish ; a broad band of blackish suffusion sprinkled with grey-whitish 
along costa from base to f , cut by a narrow oblique white fascia sprinkled 
with black from costa at J, which reaches to about fold, and is surrounded 
on its lower portion by raised spots of blackish suffusion, of which the 
posterior represents plical stigma ; discal stigmata represented by similar raised 
spots, first slightly beyond plical, second almost resting on a triangular 
blackish dorsal spot before tornus ; some undefined groups of blackish 
scales along termen ; cilia greyish irrorated with darker. Hindwings 
grey ; cilia light ochreous-grey. 
Pretoria, in November and February (Janse) ; three specimens. 
