Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
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leaden-metallic streak, and crossed by four black lines; a terminal streak of 
whitish irroration : cilia light grey, with black basal line, iridescent on outer 
half, irrorated with black towards tips round apex. Hindwings with 3 and 4 
connate; fuscous, paler and thinly scaled towards base, suffused with dark 
fuscous posteriorly; cilia light grey, with dark fuscous subbasal shade. 
Natal, Umkomaas, in January (Janse); one specimen. 
Laspeyresia areata n.sp. 
cJ 13 mm. Head dark fuscous irrorated with white. Palpi white, irregularly 
sprinkled with dark fuscous. Thorax dark fuscous, partially sprinkled with 
white, patagia with white apical patch. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate- 
triangular, costa anteriorly straight, posteriorly gently arched, apex obtuse, 
termen bowed, somewhat oblique; blackish; basal fourth strewn with suffused 
white strigulae; costa beyond this with about eight pairs of white strigulae 
whence rise indistinct short fine blue-leaden strigae; a large white rather 
oblique transverse blotch resting on dorsum beyond middle and reaching 
more than half across wing, anterior edge convex, posterior confluent in disc 
with a broad patch of ochreous-white suffusion extending across wing from 
five posterior pairs of strigulae to tornus, including a silvery-metallic dorsal 
streak representing anterior margin of ocellus and a small mark on its posterior 
margin ; the narrow terminal streak beyond this is finely speckled with whitish : 
cilia grey. Hindwings with 3 and 4 connate; fuscous, lighter towards base, 
suffused with dark fuscous posteriorly; cilia ochreous-white, with dark grey 
basal shade. 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in November (Janse); one specimen. 
Laspeyresia excoriata n.sp. 
cJ 10 mm. Head and palpi whitish-grey-ochreous, crown spotted with 
light grey. Thorax whitish-grey-ochreous, spotted and anteriorly suffused 
with dark fuscous. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, 
costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen fain tty sinuate, somewhat oblique; 
dark fuscous, from base to beyond middle irregularly and coarsely mottled 
with whitish-ochreous, beyond this with extreme tips of scales whitish-ochreous ; 
'costa from near base to beyond middle with pairs of very fine whitish strigulae 
and beyond this with four single stronger white strigulae; a curved violet- 
leaden line running from last pair (beyond middle of costa) to anterior margin 
of ocellus, and an oblique line from second single strigula to a white mark on 
termen beneath apex; subcostal space between and beyond these yellow- 
ochreous, connected beneath with a yellow-ochreous patch representing 
ocellus and containing five longitudinal blackish marks, anterior limiting 
line broken and margined with ochreous-whitish towards lower extremity; 
a terminal streak of black and whitish speckling : cilia grey, towards tornus 
tinged with whitish. Hindwings with 3 and 4 stalked; grey, rather thinly 
scaled, veins darker; cilia whitish-grey, with dark grey basal line. 
Zululand, Nkwaleni, in January (Janse); one specimen. 
GELECHIADAE 
Pynocstola Meyr. 
All the South African species hitherto referred by me to Paltodora belong 
to this genus, which I have characterised as distinguished from Paltodora by 
the scaling of the palpi ( Ent . Mo. Mag. 1917, 113). 
