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moderately ciliated. Abdomen in whitish-fuscous, anal tuft whitish, in $ 
fuscous. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex pointed, 
termen extremely obliquely rounded; dark fuscous, minutely speckled with 
white; a direct white fascia before middle, in rather broad and irregularly 
suffused anteriorly, in $ narrower; apical third of wing suffusedly mixed 
.with whitish, leaving cloudy dark spots of ground colour on tornus and on 
costa beyond it : cilia grey irrorated with white. Hindwings rather dark grey, 
paler and thinly scaled towards base, especially in $ ; cilia in <$ pale grey, in $ 
grey. 
Natal, Umkomaas, in January (Janse); three specimens. 
Blastobasis egens n.sp. 
$ 9-1 1 mm. Head grey more or less irrorated or suffused with ochreous- 
whitish. Palpi ochreous- whitish* irrorated with dark fuscous, in rather thick 
throughout, terminal joint shorter than second, pointed. Antennae in $ with 
basal notch. Thorax grey irrorated with whitish. Abdomen in A whitish-grey, 
in $ grey. Forewings very narrow, pointed, acute; grey irrorated with whitish 
and dark fuscous ; stigmata cloudy, dark fuscous, plical somewhat before 
first discal, an additional dot beneath costa opposite plical, and one on tornus 
beneath second discal : cilia light grey speckled with whitish. Hindwings 
grey; cilia whitish-grey. 
Natal, Sarnia, Umkomaas, Verulam, New Hanover; Zululand, Nkwaleni, 
Eshowe (Janse); in January and February, ten specimens. 
SCYTHRIDAE 
Scythris nigrispersa n.sp. 
18 mm. Head and thorax pale greyish-ochreous, patagia whitish towards 
tips. Palpi whitish, second joint light greyish-ochreous except tip, anterior 
edge of terminal joint grey. Abdomen light ochreous-yellowish. Forewings 
elongate-lanceolate, apex produced, acute; pale greyish-ochreous, thinly and 
irregularly sprinkled with black ; base and a very undefined streak along fold 
to beyond middle of wing suffused with whitish ; plical and second discal stigma 
widely remote, blackish; a few whitish scales towards apex : cilia pale greyish- 
ochreous. Hindwings with 4 and 5 stalked; purplish-grey; cilia light ochreous- 
yellowish, slightly tinged with grey. 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in July (Janse); one specimen. 
HYPONOMEUTIDAE 
Ethmia glandifera n.sp. 
$ 17 mm. Head white, sidetufts surrounded with blackish, base of collar 
grey. Palpi white, second joint blackish above, anterior edge of terminal 
joint black, second and terminal joints with black subapical rings. Thorax 
white, apex of patagia greyish and a black dot on base, one on each side of 
back in middle, and two posteriorly. Abdomen light ochreous-yellow. Fore- 
wings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen 
slightly rounded, rather oblique; dorsal half grey, limited by a broad white 
streak from base of costa to costa before apex, enclosed costal space forming 
a thick dark fuscous streak; a black basal dot in middle; a linear black white- 
edged dot on lower margin of white streak at a large round black dot within 
its lower margin in middle, another surrounded with white projecting from 
