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Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
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Oxymachaeris euryzancla n.sp. 
$ 9 mm. Head and thorax white. Abdomen whitish-grey. Forewings 
elongate-lanceolate; orange-yellow, posteriorly suffused with fuscous; markings 
snow-white; a wedgeshaped streak rising from basal portion of dorsum and 
running to disc at f ; a broad upcurved fasciate patch rising from middle of 
dorsum and running to f of disc ; a wedgeshaped spot extending along apical 
fifth of costa, widest posteriorly: cilia white, at apex with a projecting black 
dash. Hind wings pale grey; cilia grey-whitish. 
Natal, Umkomaas, in January (Janse); one specimen. In niveocervina 
the median white marking should form a complete fascia. 
Decadarchis minuscula Wals. 
Natal, Durban, in July (Janse). Not previously recorded from South 
Africa, but it has a very wide range; the larva feeds in dry vegetable refuse. 
NEPTICULIDAE 
Nepticula crypsixantha n.sp. 
<$ $ 6—7 mm. Head blackish. Eyecaps and thorax whitish. Abdomen 
grey. Forewings lanceolate; whitish-fuscous, coarsely and densely irrorated 
with dark fuscous : cilia grey- whitish, basal half irrorated with dark fuscous. 
Hindwings grey or pale grey; in $ with short broad expansible tuft of ochreous - 
yellow hairs covering basal third ; cilia whitish-grey. 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in September and October (Janse); five specimens. 
TINEIDAE 
Crypsithyris spissa n.sp. 
(J 11 mm. Head yellow-ochreous, face paler. Palpi pale ochreous. Thorax 
pale brownish-ochreous. Abdomen greyish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, 
rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse-pointed, termen extremely 
obliquely rounded; 3-5 nearly approximated, 8 absent, 7 and 9 stalked; light 
ochreous, coarsely and irregularly irrorated with rather dark fuscous, especi- 
ally posteriorly; plical and second discal stigmata approximated, represented 
by round cloudy rather dark fuscous spots : cilia pale ochreous-grey, with 
subbasal line of rather dark fuscous scales. Hindwings with 2-7 separate; 
rather dark grey; cilia light ochreous-grey. 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in December (Janse); one specimen. 
Monopis lamprostola n.sp. 
$ 18 mm. Head ochreous-yellow. Palpi yellowish, externally suffused 
with dark fuscous except apex. Thorax dark fuscous, suffused with orange 
in middle of anterior margin, posterior crest orange. Abdomen light orange. 
Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen 
rounded, rather strongly oblique; 7 and 8 stalked; dark fuscous, irregularly 
strewn with dark purplish raised scales; a large whitish-yellow triangular 
blotch extending on costa from ^ to f , and reaching half across wing, costal 
edge tinged with orange, especially posteriorly: cilia brownish mixed with 
dark fuscous. Hindwings and cilia orange-yellowish. 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in March (Janse); one specimen. 
