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fuscous spot towards termen above middle : cilia fuscous sprinkled with whitish, 
with darker subbasal shade, base ochreous-whitish on upper part of termen. 
Hind wings with 3 and 4 stalked ; grey ; cilia light grey. 
Natal, Rietvlei, in November (Otto); two specimens. Type in Coll. Janse. 
Eucosma calculosa Meyr. 
The of this species has on base of costa of forewings a spot of whitish 
flocculent, material covered with erectile scales, and at base of dorsum of 
hindwings a short lobe furnished with long hairscales, dorsal edge near beyond 
this dark grey. 
Portuguese East Africa, Xinavane, in December (Swierstra). 
Eucosma impatiens n.sp. 
13 mm. Head and palpi dark brownish-grey. Thorax dark fuscous 
speckled with whitish. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, costa slightly 
arched, without fold, apex tolerably pointed, termen sinuate, somewhat 
oblique; rather dark grey speckled with whitish; costa with numerous fine 
strigulae of white irroration, and black marks between these; some blackish 
dots and strigulae in basal patch, its edge dark fuscous, forming a broad acute 
triangular prominence below middle ; central fascia very oblique, indicated by 
an oblique slender black streak from middle of costa and very irregular black 
marking in disc and before tornus, spaces before and beyond this more whitish- 
tinged; ocellus indicated by three indistinct longitudinal blackish strigulae 
preceded and followed by whitish suffusion ; an elongate black apical mark on 
costa: cilia grey sprinkled with whitish, suffused with whitish on upper half 
of termen, at apex with a black mark edged beneath with whit6. Hindwings 
with 3 and 4 connate; grey, darker towards apex; cilia whitish-grey, with 
darker basal shade. 
Portuguese East Africa, Magude, in September (Swierstra) ; one speci- 
men. This somewhat approximates to Ancylis. 
Eucosma leptozona n.sp. 
$ II mm. Head whitish sprinkled with grey, sides of crown suffused with 
light grey. Palpi dark grey, terminal joint and apex of second white. Thorax 
grey sprinkled with whitish, shoulders and transverse anterior and postmedian 
bands on dorsal area dark fuscous. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, costa 
gently arched, apex obtuse, termen straight, rather oblique; grey irregularly 
irrorated with whitish; basal patch occupying ^ of wing, mostly suffused with 
darker grey and marked with dark fuscous, edge slightly rounded, hardly 
oblique, somewhat indented above middle, beyond this a posteriorly undefined 
fascia of whitish suffusion ; central fascia indicated by a slightly curved rather 
oblique irregular dark fuscous stria; beyond this five groups of very fine 
whitish striation on costa separated by dark fuscous wedgeshaped marks and 
terminated by a triangular dark fuscous apical spot, with a projection inwards 
which meets an upwards-oblique dark fuscous mark from middle of termen; 
posterior third of wing mostly suffused with pale leaden, ocellus represented 
by two broad closely approximated streaks with three or four irregularly 
placed ill-defined blackish dots between them: cilia grey speckled with dark 
fuscous and whitish. Hindwings with 3 and 4 stalked; rather dark grey; cilia 
grey. 
Portuguese East Africa, Magude, in October and November (Swierstra) ; 
two specimens. 
