Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
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on inner side cinnamon-buff (xxix) ; branches of antennae saccardo’s umber 
(xxix); indications of sub-basal, antemedial, medial and postmedial lines, 
parallel to each other and inwardly oblique from costa to inner margin; sub- 
basal line as far as median fold only; all these lines consist of black scales, 
mixed with a few yellow scales; sub-terminal line well defined, shaded with 
lighter grey on outer side, dentate at each vein and at median fold ; some olive- 
grey irroration on costa of hind wing at postmedial area and cilia as far as 
vein 6; a faint grey terminal line; cilia of both wings of ground colour. Fore 
wing on under side white, except for some grey irroration at costa and outer 
margin. 
Exp. 38 mm. 
Hab. Type and cotype. Emangeni (S. Rhodesia), 18. 1. T8. Janse. 
Six specimens in all, of which two specimens are from Umvuma (S. Rho- 
desia), 25. 1. T7, Janse. 
Desmeocraera Incana spec. nov. 
cJ, Head and thorax covered with white and mikado-brown (xxix) hairs; 
abdomen cream-buff (xxx) ; fore wing at costal and inner marginal area and 
whole region beyond postmedial line covered with white and mikado-brown 
hair-like scales mixed with black scales; remaining central area, except the 
veins, covered with hazel (xiv) scalgg ; veins broadly covered with white scales 
mixed with black; a faint auburn (ii) postmedial line, dentate outwardly on 
the veins; a sub-terminal series of auburn spots between the veins from apex 
to vein 3, then becoming a faint line to tornus; cilia white, mixed with some 
drab (xlvi) scales. Hind wing whitish; a drab mark at end of cell, and beyond 
this the whole wing is irrorated with drab, most densely towards termen 
and on the veins; cilia white, with basal part tinged with drab. Under side: 
fore wing densely irrorated with wood-brown (xl) especially along costa; hind 
wing white, irrorated with wood -brown, rather densely along costa and termen. 
Thorax and abdomen on under side and legs with white and mikado-brown 
hairs. Antennae of with branches till the tip, which are about four times 
the shaft and cream-buff in colour; in $ shortly bipectinate, branches as long 
as thickness of shaft. 
Exp. <$, 38 mm.; $, 59 mm. 
Hab. <J type from Nggeleni (W. Pondoland), 7. 2. ’07, in Transvaal Museum ; 
$ cotype in coll. Janse, from the same locality, in 22. 1. ’04, both collected by 
H. H. Swinny. 
Desmeocraera Tripuncta spec. nov. 
(PI. XIII, fig. 15.) 
cJ. Head, hairs on legs and under side of abdomen cartridge -buff (xxx); 
thorax and upper side of fore wing olive-buff (xl) , on thorax mixed with black 
scales and hairs; fore wing thickly irrorated with black; palpi at sides, sides of 
head and prothorax on under side with mars-brown (xv) hairs; some hairs on 
fore tibia and on upper half of fore tarsi vinaceous-russet (xxviii) ; branches 
of antennae yellow ochre (xv); abdomen on upper side light drab (xlvi), first 
segments with some olive-buff and black hairs, terminal segments olive-buff 
with a few black hairs. Fore wing densely irrorated with black; a sub-basal 
black line till upper median, angled outwards below costa; antemedial line 
double, indistinct, curved outwardly at median fold and below vein 1 b, 
inwards at upper median vein, sub-median fold and angled inwards at 1 b ; 
white scales between this line and medial line from costa to vein 1 b ; medial line 
