246 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Antennal ciliations 2. Abdomen whitish-grey, anal tuft whitish- 

 ochreous. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex 

 tolerably pointed, termen somewhat sinuate, rather strongly oblique ; 

 2 and 3 stalked, 8 and 9 out of 7, 7 to apex ; ochreous-yellow suffused 

 throughout with brownish-ferruginous : cilia ochreous-yellow tinged 

 with ferruginous. Hindwings grey ; cilia pale grey. 



TRANSVAAL, Johannesburg, in January and February (H. Feltham) ; 

 two specimens. 



GEN. CHELAEIA, Haw. 

 CHELARIA MELANECTA, n. sp. 



$ . 15 mm. Head and thorax white speckled with grey. Palpi 

 white speckled with grey, second joint with long acute triangular 

 apical tuft beneath, blackish except along apical edge, terminal joint 

 thickened towards middle, with black subbasal ring and median 

 band. Abdomen pale grey. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa 

 slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded ; 6 

 separate ; fuscous finely in-orated with whitish, all veins marked 

 with fine dark fuscous lines, with a few black scales, vein 6 marked 

 with a fine black streak ; a grey streak along median third of costa ; 

 a darker line from -| of costa, running near costa to apex : cilia 

 fuscous irrorated with whitish, round apex with three or four darker 

 lines. Hindwings and cilia light grey. 



TRANSVAAL, Johannesburg, in January (H. Feltham) ; one 

 specimen. 



FAMILY SCYTHEIDAE. 

 GEN. SCYTHKIS, Hubn. 



SCYTHRIS MELANOPLEURA, n. Sp. 



$ ? . 15-18 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous tinged 

 with grey. Palpi ochreous-whitish, suffused with grey anteriorly. 

 Antennal ciliations of $ f . Abdomen whitish-ochreous, tinged with 

 yellowish, with a thick black lateral streak on basal half. Forewings 

 elongate-lanceolate, acute ; pale ochreous mixed with whitish, with 

 scattered dark fuscous scales, especially in disc ; plical and second 

 discal stigmata dark fuscous, widely remote : cilia whitish-ochreous, 

 towards tornus more or less suffused with pale greyish-fulvous. 

 Hindwings with 4 and 5 stalked ; pale greyish-ochreous tinged with 

 fulvous, in $ suffused with grey, darker towards apex, in J some- 



