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Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
grey, anal tuft ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently 
arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, rather oblique; shining leaden- 
grey; an irregular outwards-oblique orange fascia from base of dorsum, not 
reaching costa; a deep bronzy blackish-edged transverse blotch from dorsum 
somewhat before middle, broadest on dorsum, reaching § across wing, apex 
rounded and margined by a crescentic orange streak; an 8-shaped orange 
patch filled up with fuscous, entirely crossing wing beyond middle from costa 
to dorsum, edged with blackish; a rather curved orange line from f of costa 
to just before tornus, strongly indented in middle, edged anteriorly with 
irregular black scales and posteriorly with blackish suffusion : cilia whitish, 
with black basal line, beneath tornus light grey. Hindwings grey; cilia light 
grey. 
Natal, Stella Bush, in December (Janse); two specimens. 
Brachmia fiscinat a n.sp. 
io mm. Head whitish-ochreous, face more whitish. Palpi ochreous- 
whitish sprinkled with dark fuscous. Thorax whitish-ochreous irregularly 
marked with dark fuscous irroration. Abdomen grey, anal tuft whitish. 
Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse-pointed, 
termen obliquely rounded; ochreous-whitish, marked between veins with 
brown lines irrorated with dark fuscous, less marked and incomplete on 
costal §, strong on rest of wing, especially two terminating beneath apex in a 
suffused terminal spot; very oblique suffused dark fuscous lines from costa 
at §, and f , crossing costal f ; stigmata small, dark fuscous, slightly edged 
with whitish, plical somewhat before first discal : cilia dark grey, basally 
obscurely barred with grey -whitish, on costa whitish-ochreous. Hindwings 
grey; cilia light grey. 
Zululand, Nkwaleni, in January (Janse); one specimen. 
Syrmadaula n.g. 
Head with appressed scales; ocelli small, posterior; tongue developed. 
Antennae § , in $ very shortly ciliated, basal joint rather elongate, without 
pecten. Labial palpi long, recurved, second joint thickened with appressed 
scales, somewhat rough beneath, terminal joint as long as second, moderate, 
acute. Maxillary palpi very short, filiform, appressed to tongue. Posterior 
tibiae clothed with rough hairscales above. Forewings with 2 and 3 short- 
stalked from angle, 4 and 5 somewhat approximated, 7 absent, 11 from middle. 
Hindwings somewhat under 1, elongate-trapezoidal, termen beneath apex 
very oblique, slightly sinuate, cilia 1 ; 3-5 equidistant, remote, 6 and 7 stalked. 
Allied to Autosticha. 
Syrmadaula automorpha n.sp. 
cJ $ 13-14 mm. Head light yellow-ochreous. Palpi pale ochreous, second 
j oint dark fuscous except tip, terminal joint sprinkled with dark fuscous towards 
apex. Thorax fuscous. Abdomen brownish -grey. Forewings elongate, rather 
narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse-pointed, termen very obliquely 
rounded; light fuscous irrorated with dark fuscous; stigmata moderate, dark 
fuscous, plical somewhat obliquely before first discal; a dark fuscous dot near 
dorsum at f; three or four cloudy dark fuscous dots on termen: cilia pale 
fuscous, on basal half sprinkled with dark fuscous. Hindwings grey; cilia 
pale grey. 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in September and January (Janse); four specimens. 
