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Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
Proceleustis zelotypa n.sp. 
$ 13-14 mm. Head pale ochreous tinged with fuscous, face whitish. 
Palpi white, base of second joint dark fuscous, subapical bands of second and 
terminal joints fuscous. Antennae uniform light greyish-ochreous. Thorax 
dark fuscous. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa 
gently arched, apex pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded; rather 
dark ashy-fuscous; a moderately broad rather irregular-edged whitish-ochreous 
fascia at |, edged with irregular black scales, posterior margin angulated 
below middle; an irregular ochreous-whitish transverse spot from costa at f , 
reaching half across wing, second discal stigma irregular, black, projecting 
into its lower margin; sometimes an ochreous-whitish apical dot: cilia light 
fuscous, sprinkled with dark fuscous, with an ochreous-whitish spot on costal 
spot. Hindwings with 3 and 4 stalked (in one wing of one specimen coincident) ; 
rather dark grey; cilia light fuscous. 
British S. E. Africa, Bela Vista, in November (Swierstra) ; two specimens. 
XYLORYCTIDAE 
Odites cuculans n.sp. 
cj $ 15-19 mm. Head and thorax whitish-yellowish. Palpi yellow-whitish, 
second joint brownish -tinged on basal half. Abdomen pale ochreous-yellowish. 
Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen 
slightly rounded, oblique; whitish-yellowish; costal edge sometimes slightly 
brownish-tinged anteriorly; a blackish dot towards costa in middle, and one 
on lower angle of cell: cilia whitish-yellowish. Hindwings and cilia whitish- 
ochreous. 
British S. E. Africa, Bela Vista, in November (Swierstra) ; three specimens. 
I have also in my collection a worn specimen apparently of the same species 
from Ubangi, French Congo. 
Odites incolumis n.sp. 
$ 16 mm. Head and thorax white. Palpi white, second joint infuscated 
except towards apex. Abdomen pale grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, 
costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen rounded, rather strongly oblique; 
white; a black dot towards costa near base; stigmata black, plical obliquely 
beyond first discal, almost equally near second ; a curved subterminal series 
of several minute groups of black scales in disc; an almost marginal series of 
small black dots round posterior part of costa and termen: cilia white. Hind- 
wings pale grey; cilia whitish. 
British S. E. Africa, Bela Vista, in November (Swierstra); one specimen. 
Odites nubeculosa n.sp. 
$ 26 mm. Head whitish. Palpi whitish, second joint somewdiat infuscated 
except apex. Thorax whitish-fuscous. Abdomen whitish. Forewings elongate, 
costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, little oblique, 
rounded beneath; fuscous-whitish, with irregularly scattered dark fuscous 
specks except towards costa; discal stigmata black, a cloudy fuscous spot 
beneath and slightly beyond second; cloudy dots of suffused dark fuscous 
scales along termen : cilia whitish. Hindwings and cilia whitish. 
Natal, Durban (Leigh) ; one specimen. 
