DESCRIPTIONS OF SOUTH AFRICAN MICRO- LEPIDOPTERA. 
By E. Meyrick, B.A., F.R.S. 
IY. 
PTEROPHORIDAE. 
Platyptilia corniculata, n. sp. 
$. 20 mm. Head and thorax white, partially tinged with pale 
brownish, face without distinct tuft, patagia sprinkled with brown pos- 
teriorly. Palpi If, slender, white. Abdomen ochreous-whitish streaked 
with fuscous, two basal segments white. Forewings cleft to f, segments 
moderately broad, slightly dilated, apex pointed, termen oblique, of first 
segment concave, of second almost straight ; whitish tinged with pale 
brownish, on dorsal half partially irrorated with brown ; a white transverse 
streak angulated round cleft and thence proceeding obliquely outwards 
to costa and dorsum ; both segments beyond this reddish-brown with a 
longitudinal median streak of dark reddish-fuscous suffusion, first segment 
crossed by an oblique white bar rather near termen : cilia white, on costa 
brownish between bars, at apex with a black projecting hook, on termen 
with a black basal line interrupted beneath apex of second segment, within 
cleft fuscous mixed with blackish scales, on dorsum with three faint pale 
brownish bars containing two or three blackish scales each, before tornus 
with a fuscous patch. Hindwings with segments moderate, pointed ; 
fuscous ; cilia light brownish, on basal third of dorsum mixed with white 
scales, with two or three dark fuscous points near base. 
Three Sisters (Janse) ; in February, one specimen. 
Pselnophorus catharotes Meyr. 
Barberton (Janse) ; in December and January, four specimens. This 
species has only been recorded hitherto from the Khasia Hills in Assam, 
whence I have received a long series of fine specimens ; with these the 
present examples agree entirely ; the larval habits are unknown, but it 
is possible that the species has been artificially introduced into Africa. 
Adaina periarga, n. sp. 
$• 15-16 mm. Head light yellowish-grey, forehead between 
antennae white. Palpi hardly over 1, white. Thorax yellowish- white. 
Abdomen whitish, with lateral row of small black dots. Forewings cleft 
from before segments narrow, acute ; yellowish white, with some 
irregularly scattered black scales, costa white ; a blackish dot in disc at 
J, and one at base of cleft ; a blackish elongate mark on costa beyond 
cleft, a black elongate dot on costa beyond middle of first segment, one 
on lower margin of first segment beyond this, one almost at apex of each 
segment, and three on dorsum of second segment ; cilia white, blackish 
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