Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
49 
i Eucosma thalameuta n.sp. 
1 6 mm. Head dark grey. Palpi whitish externally sprinkled with grey, 
apical half blackish. Thorax blackish. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, 
rather narrow, costa gently arched, without fold, apex obtuse, termen slightly 
sinuate, little oblique; whitish, partially tinged with pale pinkish-ochreous, 
strewn with small light blue-leaden-grey spots and transverse marks; basal 
patch occupying J of wing, dark leaden-grey marked and edged with black, 
dorsal portion white with an irregular black spot near base; a thick black 
streak from middle of costa obliquely outwards to disc, thence curved round 
to apex, edged beneath by some brownish-ochreous suffusion in disc before § , 
and interrupted by a light blue-leaden-grey striga at § and again nearly 
interrupted by two similar marks near apex; a small deep ochreous spot 
towards dorsum before tornus; three small black spots on posterior half of 
costa : cilia grey, with whitish tornal patch. Hindwings with 3 and 4 stalked ; 
rather dark grey; cilia grey. 
Cape Colony, Port St John, in December (Swinney) ; one specimen. 
Eucosma drastica n.sp. 
$ 13 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax fuscous mixed with dark fuscous and 
whitish. Abdomen rather dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, 
costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen somewhat sinuate beneath apex, 
bowed, little oblique; grey, mixed with dark fuscous; dorsal half from base to 
beyond middle blackish-fuscous, oblique blackish-fuscous streaks from costa 
at and middle running into this; posterior half of costa blackish-fuscous, 
with five white strigulae, first originating a very oblique deep blue-leaden 
striga, others tipped with blue-leaden, subcostal area here tinged with ochreous ; 
a triangular blackish-fuscous praetornal spot, separated from preceding dark 
area, by an irregular leaden-metallic streak; ocellus laterally edged with 
leaden-metallic streaks, and crossed by several irregular blackish dashes; 
above this an irregular patch of blackish suffusion extending from dark area 
to termen; terminal edge irrorated with whitish-ochreous : cilia violet-leaden- 
grey, towards tornus irrorated with ochreous-whitish, round apex and upper 
part of termen with black subbasal line. Hindwings with 3 and 4 connate; 
dark grey, lighter anteriorly; cilia light grey, with darker subbasal shade. 
Cape Colony, Port St John, in August (Swinney), one specimen ; also one 
in my collection from Natal, Pinetown, in February (Leigh). 
Eucosma lobostola n.sp. 
p 10-11 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax ochreous-whitish. Abdomen pale 
grey. Forewings elongate, posteriorly slightly dilated, costa very slightly 
arched, without fold, apex obtuse-pointed, termen sinuate, somewhat oblique, 
ochreous-whitish, somewhat strigulated with light brown-reddish, posterior § 
suffused with brown-reddish; a spot of grey suffusion with some raised scales 
just beneath costa near base; margin of basal patch indicated by brownish 
or fuscous spots on costa at £ and dorsum at § , and a subtriangular blotch in 
disc before middle; posterior half of costa marked with small dark brown spots 
and whitish strigulae; two indistinct fine oblique blue-leaden strigae beneath 
these; ocellus edged laterally with silvery streaks, and including three irregular- 
black dots: cilia reddish-whitish, with red-brown subbasal line, tips towards 
apex dark fuscous. Hindwings with 3 and 4 coincident; grey; a strong pro- 
