8.-New South African Micro-Lepidoptera.-By E. MEYRICK, B.A., F.R.S.

THE specimens which form the subject of the following notes were entrusted to me through the courtesy of Dr. L. Péringuey, and the types are in the collection of the South African Museum.

PTEROPHORIDÆ.

AGDISTIS CRIOCEPHALA, n. sp.

. 19-20 mm. Head dark grey irrorated with white, frontal prominence moderate, rounded. Palpi moderate, dark fuscous sprinkled with white, apex of second and terminal joints white. Antennæ over, fuscous. Thorax and abdomen fuscous. Forewings very narrow at base, moderately dilated posteriorly, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, rather strongly oblique; rather dark fuscous irregularly and suffusedly irrorated with whitish, the triangular space rather lighter fuscous and not irrorated; three small round suffused dark fuscous spots at inverted apex of this space and on its lower margin at and of wing, and a fourth on its upper margin beyond third cilia fuscous sprinkled with whitish. Hindwings fuscous, towards tornus and on termen with some dark fuscous scales; cilia fuscous, tips whitish.

Very

CAPE COLONY, Troe Troe, in October; three specimens. similar to adactyla and satanas, from both of which it may be separated by the rounded frontal prominence (in them acute).

9. 27-31 mm.

TORTRICIDE.

CACOECIA HELIASPIS, n. sp.

Head and thorax dark reddish-brown, thorax lighter posteriorly. Palpi short, ascending, reddish-ochreous-brown. Abdomen orange. Forewings oblong, costa very strongly arched towards base, concave posteriorly, apex prominent, round-pointed,

termen vertical, concave below apex, rounded-prominent beneath; ochreous-brown, marbled throughout with a pale ashy-purplish gloss; some very fine irregular dark fuscous striæ more or less indicated; basal patch outlined by a similar stria, obtusely angulated in middle, preceded on dorsum by a spot of dark reddish-fuscous suffusion, base of costa suffused with dark reddish-fuscous; central fascia outlined by two similar striæ, gradually dilated downwards, rather narrow on costa, moderately broad on dorsum, suffused with rather dark reddish-fuscous towards both extremities; costal patch semioval, dark reddish-fuscous, anteriorly edged by a similar stria running to termen above tornus cilia ochreous-brown, suffused with reddish-fuscous on upper part of termen and dark fuscous at apex. Hindwings bright deep orange, at apex with one or two reddishfuscous strigulæ; cilia yellowish, with reddish-fuscous basal line. NATAL, Durban (Leigh); two specimens.

TORTRIX CAPENSANA Walk.

CAPE COLONY, King William's Town.

PROSELENA IONEPHELA, n. sp.

3. 16-17 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous, more or less tinged with brownish. Palpi whitish- ochreous, second joint externally suffused with fuscous. Antennæ grey. Abdomen pale whitishochreous. Forewings elongate-oblong, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, oblique; whitish-ochreous; costa suffused with yellow-brownish towards base; a streak of ferruginous suffusion along dorsum from near base to tornus, expanding into a moderately large suffused prætornal blotch: cilia whitish-ochreous. Hindwings and cilia ochreous-whitish.

CAPE COLONY, Capetown and Clanwilliam, in January (Lightfoot); three specimens. This is a very interesting occurrence, the genus Proselena being hitherto known only from Australia and New Zealand, especially the latter; to some of the New Zealand species the present one is very similar.

GELECHIADE.

SITOTROGA CEREALELLA Ol.

CAPE COLONY, Capetown (Lightfoot); nine specimens. An importation, not previously recorded but doubtless common in granaries; the larva feeds on stored grain, and is a destructive pest.

ANACAMPSIS OXYSPILA, n. sp.

3. 9-10 mm. Head and thorax bronzy-fuscous, face whitish. Palpi white, terminal joint lined with black. Antennæ fuscous. Abdomen bronzy-grey. Forewings broad-lanceolate, apex somewhat produced, acute; 6 and 7 out of 8; dark fuscous, with a faint purplish tinge; opposite triangular whitish costal and dorsal spots at 3, almost meeting: cilia fuscous (imperfect). Hindwings rather dark grey; cilia grey.

CAPE COLONY, Capetown (Lightfoot), one specimen ; and I possess one from TRANSVAAL, Pretoria, taken in February (Janse).

GELECHIA CHERSOPHILA, n. sp.

12-13 mm. Head and thorax greyish-ochreous mixed with grey, face ochreous-grey-whitish. Palpi brownish sprinkled with whitish and black, terminal joint almost as long as second, with indistinct whitish band below middle. Antennæ whitish-grey ringed with blackish. Abdomen light bronzy-grey, segmental margins whitish. Forewings elongate-lanceolate; light greyish-ochreous or brownish-ochreous, finely irrorated with ferruginous, with scattered black scales; a blackish dot in middle of base, and one on costa near base; a small black spot on costa at, tending to connect with a patch of black irroration in disc obliquely beyond it, terminated beneath by small blackish plical stigma; discal stigmata blackish, first small, obliquely beyond plical, second larger, elongate, its posterior extremity bent downwards; a small group of dark fuscous scales on costa at; similar groups at tornus and apex, and a larger spot of dark fuscous suffusion near before apex; sometimes one or two dark fuscous costal dots towards apex: cilia pale brownishochreous, basal half sprinkled with dark fuscous. Hindwings pale grey; cilia pale ochreous.

CAPE COLONY, Kalk Bay, in January (Lightfoot); four specimens. Belongs to the group of obsoletella and instabilella.

GELECHIA TRISIGNIS Meyr.

3 9 16-17 mm. Seven specimens, all differing from the described type-example in possessing more or less dark fuscous suffusion along costal edge of forewings, variable in amount, in the darkest specimen forming a well-marked streak from near base to near apex, and also some dark fuscous scales on tornal edge and in cilia; they seem however to belong certainly to the same species.

CAPE COLONY, Capetown and Kalk Bay, in March (Lightfoot). Described from Transvaal.