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Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
before middle, beneath which is a round pale ochreous spot; stigmata black 
ringed with pale ochreous, plical slightly before first discal; a blackish spot 
on costa above second discal stigma, and a more or less developed blackish 
blotch on dorsum beneath and connected with it; apical area suffused with 
pale ochreous ; some cloudy black dots on posterior part of costa and termen : 
cilia dark grey sprinkled with whitish points. Hindwings i, apex considerably 
produced, pointed; grey; cilia grey. 
Zululand, Nkwaleni, in January (Janse); four specimens. 
Gelechia tetraleuca n.sp. 
$ 15 mm. Head and thorax white, patagia with a blackish stripe. Palpi 
white, base with some black scales. Abdomen whitish. Forewings elongate, 
narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen rounded, very oblique; grey 
much suffused with black, especially through middle of disc, and towards 
dorsum near base; four white blotches, first elongate, extending along dorsum 
from J to f , widest anteriorly and reaching half across wing, thence irregularly 
attenuated, second oval, beneath costa slightly beyond middle, third roundish, 
on tornus, fourth semioval, on costa towards apex; a slender irregular white 
streak along termen: cilia white. Hindwings slightly over 1, apex obtuse, 
termen hardly sinuate; whitish-grey; cilia grey- whitish. 
Zululand, Eshowe, in January (Janse); one specimen. 
Phthorimaea geomicta n.sp. 
$ 12 mm. Head and thorax rather dark brown, shoulders and anterior 
part of dorsum suffused with blackish. Palpi brown irrorated with dark fuscous, 
terminal joint with median ring and tip whitish-mixed. Abdomen light grey. 
Forewings elongate-lanceolate; 6 separate; brown irrorated with fuscous, 
with some whitish scales; some darker fuscous suffusion towards base, and 
forming a patch in disc at J , a small blackish spot on costa at J , discal stigmata 
small, black, approximated: cilia whitish-grey, sprinkled with dark fuscous 
on basal half, with indistinct cloudy dark basal dots on costa. Hindwings 
pale bluish-grey; cilia whitish-grey. 
Natal, New Hanover, in October (Janse); one specimen. 
Phthorimaea pendens n.sp. 
$ 14 mm. Head white, crown with a few black specks. Palpi white, second 
joint tinged with ochreous and sprinkled with blackish, beneath with rather 
long rough hairscales, terminal joint loosely scaled, with two rings of blackish 
irroration. Thorax whitish, with a dot of black irroration in middle of anterior 
margin and three in a triangle posteriorly, patagia pale ochreous with two or 
three black specks. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, narrow, 
costa slightly arched, apex pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded; 
reddish-ochreous, paler towards base, with a few scattered black scales; a 
blackish dot towards base above middle, one in middle beyond this, and one 
still further on beneath fold; an irregular oblique grey streak irrorated with 
black from costa at J to below middle, interrupted beneath costa, angulated 
and continued upwards to costa at § , and a similar streak from middle of 
costa crossing this and also below middle angulated upwards to touch it again 
just beyond second discal stigma; stigmata rather large, black, plical somewhat 
before first discal, these placed on margins of angle of first streak, second 
discal on posterior arm of first streak; some grey irroration along upper half 
of termen : cilia pale ochreous, sprinkled with black near base. Hindwings 
light slaty-grey; cilia whitish -ochreous. 
