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with dark fuscous and edged with blackish irroration ; three small 
semi-oval spots on anterior half of costa ; a moderately broad straight 
fascia beyond middle, suddenly contracted to a narrow spot on first 
segment ; a small quadrate spot on first segment at J ; a rather narrow 
straight subterminal fascia ; a black dot at apex of each segment ; 
cilia white, on fasciae tinged with fuscous. Hindwings white; post- 
median and subterminal fasciae faintly tinged wdth fuscous and 
edged with fuscous irroration on first five segments, obsolete on 
sixth, first moderately broad, second narrow, broader on first 
segment; apical dots and cilia as in forewings. 
Warmberg, Zoutpansberg District, in March; one specimen. 
Macrembola fortis Wals. 
Pretoria, in January; one specimen. The genus Macrembola is 
characterized by the forewings cleft only to middle, and very long 
palpi. 
PHALONIADAE. 
Pharmacis stigmatica Meyr. 
Pretoria, in January and March. 
Pharmacis assecula, n. sp. (Plate II, fig. 5). 
Female, 18 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax deep yellow. 
Abdomen pale grey. Forewings elongate, costa slightly arched, 
apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, oblique; deep yellow, strewn 
with small silvery-glistening paler spots ; a suffused deep ferruginous- 
brown streak along costa from base to 5 , and extreme costal edge 
beyond this spotted with dark fuscous irroration ; an elongate deep 
ferruginous-brown spot beneath disk before middle, and some slight 
ferruginous suffusion extending from this to tornus, the silvery spots 
in or adjacent to these partially edged or marked with purplish 
fuscous ; some dark fuscous scales about transverse vein ; a 
ferruginous-browm line along lower § of termen, interrupted with 
silvery; cilia light ferruginous, towards base tinged with whitish. 
Hindwings light grey, extreme apex whitish ; cilia yellow- whitish, 
with a sub-basal line of dark grey points. 
Pretoria, in December; one specimen. 
TORTEICIDAE. 
Epichorista Meyr. 
* 
This genus, described in a paper now in process of publication 
in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 
is distinguished from Tortrix by the separation of veins 3 and 4 of 
hindwings ; veins 6 and 7 of hindwings are sometimes stalked. 
Type E. liemionana, from New Zealand. 
Epichorista geraeas, n. sp. (Plate II, fig. 6). 
Male, 19 mm. ; female, 23 nun. Head, palpi, and anterior 
margin of thorax grey irrorated with blackish and whitish, rest of 
thorax light ochreous-yellowish. Abdomen grey. Forewings 
elongate, rather narrow, costa hardly arched, in male without fold ; 
apex tolerably pointed, termen faintly sinuate, very oblique ; light 
