Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
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GRACILARIADAE 
Phrixosceles melanostola n.sp. 
$ io mm. Head white. Palpi white, terminal joint with basal, median, 
and subapical dark grey dots. Thorax white, with a few dark fuscous specks, 
patagia speckled with brownish. Abdomen whitish, two basal segments 
laterally suffused with blackish irroration. Forewings very narrowly elongate- 
lanceolate; pale ochreous irrorated with fuscous, with an irregular very 
undefined median longitudinal streak of suffused dark fuscous irroration 
mixed with white; costal area irregularly marbled with white; dorsal edge 
irregularly white, emitting slender oblique strigae from middle and before 
tornus ; apex very finely striated transversely with blackish : cilia whitish- 
grey, round apex with a blackish line. Hindwings whitish-grey, closely strewn 
throughout with black hairscales; cilia pale grey. Forewings beneath except 
towards apex, and hindwings wholly clothed with black hairscales. 
Zululand, Eshowe, in January (Janse); one specimen. The black hair- 
scales may not improbably be characteristic of the only. 
Acrocercops pyramidota n.sp. 
$ 8 mm. Head and thorax white. Abdomen light grey. Forewings very 
narrow, long-pointed, acute; brownish-ochreous ; two large triangular shining 
white blotches, edged with black scales, on dorsum towards base and beyond 
middle, their apices just reaching costa, first with a thick irregular projection 
on dorsum to base ; a flattened-triangular white blotch along termen, reaching 
about half across wing, with an oblique white blackish-edged strigula from 
costa running into it ; a white apical dot : cilia white (imperfect) . Hindwings 
grey; cilia light grey. 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in November (Janse); one specimen. The palpi are 
missing, but the species is easily recognised. 
Acrocercops aphrocyma n.sp. 
$ 9 mm. Head ochreous-white. Palpi white, second joint rough-scaled 
anteriorly towards apex, with two dark fuscous bands, terminal joint with 
two dark fuscous rings. Thorax white, anterior margin marked with dark 
fuscous. Abdomen grey-whitish. Forewings very narrow, moderately pointed, 
acute; whity-brownish ; costal half suffused with blackish irroration, trans- 
versely mottled with white from base to middle, crossed by a very oblique 
irregular white streak from before middle of costa to § of disc, and beyond this 
by three or four slender more or less confluent oblique white streaks; dorsal 
area from base to beyond tornus marked with irregular oblique more or less 
confluent white streaks not reaching middle of wing, separated by a few 
blackish scales ; a somewhat oblique slightly curved fine pale violet transverse 
line towards apex, white towards extremities; an elongate black apical dot 
edged above with white : cilia light grey, round apex with two blackish lines 
separated with white and two oblique projecting blackish apical hooks. 
Hindwings grey; cilia light grey. 
Zululand, Eshowe, in January (Janse); one specimen. 
Parectopa praestricta n.sp. 
cJ 9 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax grey. Abdomen pale grey. Forewings 
very narrow, moderately pointed, apex produced, acute; dark grey, mixed 
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