Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
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ORNEODIDAE 
Orneodes photaula n.sp. 
o' 14-15 mm. Head and thorax pale greyish-ochreous mixed with grey, 
lower part of face whitish. Palpi 3, grey, second joint long, porrected, above 
with rough projecting white hairscales, terminal joint short, slender, white, 
with dark grey median band. Abdomen ochreous-whitish irrorated with 
dark grey, segmental margins white. Forewings pale greyish-ochreous closely 
irrorated with dark grey; a yellow -ochreous streak along segment 1 from 
about £, with marginal indications of four undeveloped grey bars, and ter- 
minated by a dark grey white-margined subterminal bar; on segments 2-6 
somewhat darker curved bands at middle and f, edged with white marks, 
second band on segment 2 narrow and near apex; tips of all segments white 
preceded by black dots : cilia grey, on margins of bands with oblique white 
marks. Hind wings with all segments similar to segments 3-6 of forewings. 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in February (Swierstra) ; one specimen. Also one 
in my collection from Johannesburg in January. Recognisable by yellowish 
streak of first segment of forewings. 
GLYPHIPTERYGIDAE 
Simaethis gratiosa Meyr. 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in January ; Cape Colony, Port St John, in October 
(Swierstra) ; two specimens, differing from one another and from the original 
examples (described from the Seychelles) in the development and extent of 
the fulvous suffusion of forewings, but otherwise apparently similar (neither 
is in good condition) and justly referable to the same species. 
BLASTOBASIDAE 
Blastobasis externa n.sp. 
$ 17-18 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark fuscous closely and suffusedly 
irrorated with white. Abdomen grey-whitish. Forewings elongate, narrow, 
costa hardly arched, rather bent towards f , apex pointed, termen extremely 
obliquely rounded; dark ashy-fuscous sprinkled with whitish, broadly streaked 
with whitish suffusion along margins of cell, vein 1 b, and in disc posteriorly, 
veins posteriorly obscurely lined with whitish; second discal stigma repre- 
sented by an obscure spot of dark fuscous ground colour placed in this suffu- 
sion: cilia light grey, base with some dark fuscous scales. Hindwings grey; 
cilia light grey. 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in December and February (Swierstra); two 
specimens. 
ELACHISTIDAE 
Symphoristis n.g. 
Head smooth; ocelli small, posterior; tongue developed. Antennae §, 
in ciliated, basal joint rather flattened and dilated with scales, with strong 
pecten. Labial palpi moderately long, slender, curved, ascending, terminal 
joint shorter than second, acute. Maxillary palpi very short, drooping, filiform. 
Posterior tibiae clothed with very long fine hairs above. Forewings with 2 
from angle, 4 absent, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa, 11 from middle. Hindwings 
f , lanceolate, cilia 2; 2-4 remote, 5 absent, 6 and 7 stalked. 
Type ptychospila; also nimbifeva Meyr. is referable here. The genus (which 
I had not hitherto thought it necessary to separate) differs from Elachista by 
the separation of vein 6 of forewings. 
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