Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
5i 
Hemimene embolaea n.sp. 
$ 11-13 mm. Head and palpi ochreous. Thorax ochreous, with fuscous 
bars on shoulders and two on posterior half. Abdomen grey. Forewings 
elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse-pointed, termen rather strongly 
sinuate beneath apex, little oblique; pale ochreous, partially marked and 
suffused with fulvous and strewn with coarse blackish transverse marks and 
strigulae; costa marked with ochreous-whitish oblique strigulae between 
these; a slender oblique dark brown streak from middle of costa, preceded by 
an irregular indistinct blue-leaden-metallic interrupted line running to dorsum 
at f , and followed by a fine blue-leaden-metallic sinuate line running to termen 
beneath apex, limiting ocellus, which is margined anteriorly by a thick 
whitish streak and posteriorly by a streak of dark fuscous irroration, and 
crossed by several fine blackish dashes : cilia pale ochreous tinged with brown- 
ish except towards base, suffused with brown round apex towards tips, with 
dark brownish subbasal dots beneath apex and above tornus. Hind wings 
grey; cilia ochreous-whitish, with light grey subbasal shade. 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in February and March (Swierstra) ; two specimens. 
This is the first species of the genus recorded from South Africa. 
Laspeyresia violescens n.sp. 
^ 16 mm. Head and thorax light violet-grey, face pale fulvous-ochreous. 
Palpi whitish-ochreous. Abdomen pale greyish. Forewings elongate-triangular, 
costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen sinuate-indented beneath apex, 
thence somewhat obliquely rounded; violet-grey, anteriorly suffusedly mixed 
with grey- whitish, posteriorly finely speckled with grey -whitish ; costa on 
posterior § grey -whitish strigulated with dark grey; an indistinct suffused 
darker grey oblique streak from dorsum at f , reaching more than half across 
wing, forming anterior limit of a very obscure more whitish-tinged dorsal 
patch; a dark blue-leaden very oblique striga from costa beyond middle, 
strongly angulated opposite apex, and becoming obsolete towards dorsum, 
preceded in disc by several minute black dots or strigulae; a fine very oblique 
blue-leaden striga before apex ; a sinuate series of about six small black elongate 
dots towards termen: cilia pale violet-grey, with blackish-grey basal line. 
Hindwings grey, apical edge whitish-suffused ; cilia whitish. 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in December (Swierstra); one specimen. 
GELECHIADAE 
Telphusa confixa n.sp. 
$ $ II-T2 mm. Head and thorax white irrorated with dark fuscous, 
thorax anteriorly longitudinally marked with blackish. Palpi white, basal 
half and a subapical band of second joint, and base and two bands of terminal 
joint blackish. Abdomen greyish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly 
arched, apex pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded; 6 out of 7 near 
base; dark grey suffusedly irrorated with white, with some black scales; 
elongate blackish spots on costa near base, before middle, and at f ; a black 
streak from beneath first of these along fold to near extremity; discal stigmata 
black connected by a black dash, second followed by a disconnected black 
dash running nearly to apex; cloudy black marginal dots round posterior 
part of costa and termen: cilia grey, round apex sprinkled with whitish. 
Hindwings grey, thinly scaled towards base; cilia light grey. 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in February and March (Swierstra); four specimens,. 
