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Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
Argyroploce aster ota n.sp. 
$ 1 6 mm. Head grey-whitish, forehead tinged with yellowish. Palpi light 
greyish sprinkled with white, second joint with two spots of dark fuscous 
irroration. Thorax grey-whitish, anteriorly suffused with darker grey, shoulders 
and crest tinged with yellowish. Abdomen dark grey. Forewings elongate- 
triangular, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen straight, somewhat 
oblique; dark grey, mixed here and there with olive-greenish and strewn with 
irregular silvery-leaden spots; costa suffusedly mixed with blackish, with 
pairs of direct indistinct whitish strigulae; an interrupted slender black 
longitudinal streak in disc from § to near termen ; a suffused white fascia from 
| of costa to dorsum before tornus, interrupted by grey suffusion round this 
streak ; apical area greenish-fulvous spotted with silvery-leaden : cilia grey 
sprinkled with white and dark fuscous. Hindwings rather dark grey; cilia 
whitish-grey, with dark grey subbasal shade. 
Zululand, Eshowe, in January (Janse); one specimen. 
A rgyroploce propitia n.sp. 
J ii mm. Head grey-whitish. Palpi whitish partially mixed with grey, 
second joint with long hairs beneath. Thorax whitish, anteriorly and 
posteriorly mixed with ochreous, shoulders with dark grey spots. Abdomen 
dark grey, anal tuft whitish towards tips. Forewings elongate, posteriorly 
dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, somewhat 
oblique; whitish, somewhat sprinkled with grey, anterior half of costa 
marked with dark grey strigulae, posterior half dark fuscous with five pairs 
of white strigulae; basal patch somewhat strigulated with dark red-brown 
on dorsal half, its outer edge marked by a blackish stria interrupted 
beneath costa and slightly bent in middle; central fascia somewhat oblique, 
on upper half narrow, blackish-grey, on lower moderately broad, grey suffused 
with pale ochreous, posterior edge angulated in middle; beyond this a rather 
narrow irregular fascia of leaden-grey suffusion ; anterior edge of ocellus formed 
by a thick pale leaden-grey streak; a roundish greyish-ochreous patch towards 
apex, extending indistinctly downwards into ocellus, in which is a short 
blackish mark, and connected with middle of termen by a short oblique 
suffused dark grey streak ; a small dark red-brown apical spot ; cilia dark slaty- 
fuscous, with dark red-brown basal line, and red-brown tornal patch. Hind- 
wings with 3 and 4 short-stalked ; blackish -grey, with a subdorsal fold white- 
scaled internally and containing a pencil of long grey hairs; cilia grey, with 
dark grey basal line. 
Zululand, Eshowe, in January (Janse); one specimen. 
Laspeyresia victrix n.sp. 
10 mm. Head and thorax dark fuscous, irrorated with whitish. Palpi 
white somewhat sprinkled with dark fuscous. Abdomen dark grey. Forewings 
elongate-triangular, costa hardly arched, apex obtuse, termen bowed, some- 
what oblique; blackish, with tips of scales white, forming a fine nearly regular 
transverse striation; a rosy-leaden-metallic transverse streak at hardly 
reaching costa or dorsum; a thicker rosy-leaden-metallic streak from middle 
of costa to beyond middle of dorsum, thinner and tinged with pale blue 
towards costa; space between this and next markings wholly blackish except 
on a patch below middle; three short bluish-leaden strigae from costa 
posteriorly ; ocellus margined anteriorly by a thick rosy-leaden-metallic streak 
reaching more than half across wing, posteriorly by a short and slender bluish- 
