ANNALS 
MEDEDELINGEN 
OF THE 
VAN HET 
TRANSVAAL MUSEUM 
VOL. ^ 
By E. Meyrick, B.A., F.R.S. 
31 new genera and 298 new species are here described, besides several 
species now recorded for the first time from South Africa. The types of 
those new species received from Mr A. J. T. Janse are contained in his 
collection, and those from Mr C. J. Swierstra in the Transvaal Museum. 
Trichoptilus animosus n.sp. 
S 15-17 mm. Head brown. Palpi brown, towards base white. Thorax 
brown, posterior margin white. Abdomen grey longitudinally streaked with 
white and black. Forewings cleft nearly to middle, segments very narrow; 
brown, segments suffused with dark fuscous ; dorsum narrowly white towards 
base; a broad white band crossing both segments before their middle, and a 
slender white bar at f of their length : cilia grey, white on margins of markings, 
on costa otherwise dark fuscous, within cleft mixed with dark grey and whitish, 
on dorsum with black scaleteeth before cleft and on each side of white band, 
and two or three dark grey bars towards apex. Hind wings and cilia dark 
grey, dorsum without black scales. 
Natal, Rietvlei, in November and March (Otto) ; two specimens. Type in 
Coll. Janse. 
Deuterocopus alopecodes Meyr. 
Rhodesia, Umvuma, in December (Janse) ; one ^ specimen, slightly larger 
(12 mm.) than my Indian examples, but I can perceive no other difference 
whatever; not previously recorded from Africa. 
Oxyptilus vihrans n.sp. 
(J 10 mm. Head and thorax brown suffusedly mixed with dark fuscous. 
Palpi ochreous-whitish, second joint brown anteriorly, terminal joint dark 
fuscous anteriorly. Abdomen dark fuscous, somewhat mixed with ferruginous. 
PTEROPHORIDAE 
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