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terminal joint with a blackisli line on each side. Antennae white 

 lined with black. Abdomen pale yellowish-ochveous. Fore wings 

 narrow-lanceolate, apex very long-produced and acute ; dark 

 brown ; an oblique series of three fine white longitudinal lines 

 about -J, first reaching base of costa, second reaching base and also 

 connected with projection of postmedian band, third connected 

 with same projection beneath ; a broad ochreous-yellow transverse 

 fascia beyond middle, anterior edge produced as a short white 

 streak on costa, below middle with a triangular jorojection, above 

 this mai-ked with a round golden -metallic spot followed by a black 

 dot, obliquely beyond this within fascia is a round golden-metallic 

 spot near dorsum, posterior edge of fascia marked with two 

 opposite pale golden-metallic spots, between wliich is an elongate 

 pi-ojection of the yellow coloui-ing, whence proceeds a sinuate 

 white line to apex : cilia dark fuscous. Hind wings and cilia 

 grey. 



Transvaal, Pretoria, in March {.Tanse) ; one specimen. 



Stagmatophora semxostola Meyr. 



Transvaal, Pretoria district, in August, September, and from 

 December to April {.Janse). 



Described from Australia, where the larva feeds amongst spun 

 leaflets of Acacia decurrens ; I have not yet obtained the species 

 from intei-mediate regions. 



Limncecia ichxographa, sp. n. 



S . 17-18 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax blackish, sprinkled 

 with white. Antennre blackish. Abdomen dark grey, sides of 

 back ochreous-whitish towards base, anal tuft whitish mixed with 

 yellow. Fore wings elongate-lanceolate, acute ; dark purplish- 

 grey, sufi'usedly streaked longitudinally with black ; a fine white 

 line above fold from base to f , beneath which is another on 

 posterior portion : a short white oblique mark from beneath costa 

 at i ; a white mark on middle of costa, beneath which are two or 

 three small undefined white marks longitudinally arranged in disc 

 and one on fold ; a rather inwardly oblique white sti'eak from 

 costa beyond |-, reaching half across wing ; an irregular undefined 

 line of more or less scattered white scales along doi-sum from near 

 base and lower half of termen : cilia dark grey, with a small basal 

 spot of white scales beneath apex, and a faint median whitish 

 shade on upper half of termen. Hind wings dark grey ; cilia 

 grey, basal line pale greyish-ochreous. 



Transvaal, Pretoria and Pietersburg districts, fiom Sej)tember 

 to January (Janse) ; two specimens. 



Gracilariad^. 

 Epicephala pyrrhogastra, sp. n. 



J 5 . 9-10 mm. Head white, somewdiat mixed with grey 

 on forehead. Palpi pale grey, becoming white towards apex. 



