Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
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Scardia polystacta n.sp. 
$ 12-16 mm. Head ochreous-whitish suffusedly spotted with dark fuscous. 
Palpi dark fuscous somewhat mixed with whitish, terminal joint whitish with 
base and median band blackish. Thorax blackish with suffused transverse 
pale ochreous band. Abdomen dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, narrow, 
costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen rounded, rather strongly oblique; 
all veins separate, 7 to apex; brown; costa narrowly black, on basal half 
dotted with white, on apical half with four or five small ochreous-white spots ; 
a blackish band occupying dorsal third from base to tornus, basally reaching 
costa, irregularly dotted with white, more strongly on dorsum; an irregular 
elongate blackish patch dotted with white extending through disc from near 
base to near termen, interrupted at f ; terminal edge black dotted with white : 
cilia ochreous-whitish with a blackish basal line, with broad blackish bars 
towards tornus and on costa, and a narrow one beneath apex. Hindwings 
dark purple-grey; cilia grey. 
Natal, New Hanover (Hardenberg), and Zululand, Isputeni (Janse), in 
January and March; two specimens. 
ADELIDAE 
Ceromitia benedicta n.sp. 
15 mm. Head yellow-ochreous. Palpi very short, loosely scaled, grey- 
whitish. Thorax pale ochreous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa 
anteriorly slightly, posteriorly moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen very 
obliquely rounded; all veins separate; pale greyish-ochreous ; costal edge 
dark grey towards base : cilia pale ochreous. Hindwings with 5 and 6 approxi- 
mated at base; grey; cilia whitish-grey. 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in December (Janse); one specimen. 
Ceromitia resonans n.sp. 
cJ 15 mm. Head grey, crown whitish posteriorly. Palpi rather short, 
whitish-grey. Thorax whitish-grey. Abdomen light grey, anal tuft ochreous- 
whitish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa anteriorly slightly, 
posteriorly moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded ; 
8 and 9 stalked; grey strigulated with dark fuscous: cilia pale grey. Hindwings 
with 5 and 6 approximated at base; bronzy-grey; cilia pale grey, 
Zululand, Eshowe, in January (Janse); one specimen. 
