Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
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Eucosma haematospila n.sp. 
$ II mm. Head, palpi, and thorax grey irrorated with green-whitish and 
blackish-grey, patagia mixed with crimson. Abdomen grey. Forewings 
elongate, posteriorly slightly dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen 
hardly rounded, oblique; light grey, slightly tinged with greenish, and 
irregularly sprinkled with blackish, tips of scales minutely whitish; costa 
slightly strigulated with blackish irroration; somewhat darker greenish-grey 
suffusion with more black irroration forms very indefinite markings, viz. a 
basal fascia, a transverse series of three blotches at ^ , the two lower connected 
by a cloudy blotch of crimson suffusion, costal and tornal blotches indicating 
a rather oblique central fascia, irregular spots round ocellus and on costa at 
and a more strongly marked narrow irregular terminal fascia of blackish 
irroration: cilia light greenish-grey speckled with whitish and blackish. Hind- 
wings with 3 and 4 connate; grey, becoming dark grey towards apex and 
termen; cilia light grey, with darker subbasal shade. 
Portuguese East Africa, Magude, in October (Swierstra); one specimen. 
Eucosma lohostola Meyr. 
Hindwings of ^ with an expansible subdorsal pencil of long whitish hairs 
lying in a groove of upper surface alongside of lobe. In $ (8-1 1 mm.) head 
and thorax sometimes suffused with reddish-fuscous, and forewings also with 
groundcolour sometimes wholly reddish-fuscous; irregular dark spots of fore- 
wings variable or sometimes undeveloped in both sexes. 
Portuguese East Africa, Magude, in October and November (Swierstra) ; 
eleven specimens. 
Polychrosis deltophora n.sp. 
$ 14 mm. Head and thorax light brownish-ochreous, face with a Vv^hitish 
bar, thoracic crest large, brownish sprinkled with dark fuscous. Palpi pale 
brownish-ochreous, white towards base. Abdomen greyish, segmental margins 
partially mixed with whitish. Forewings elongate, somewhat dilated pos- 
teriorly, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen straight, rather oblique; 
pale ochreous, with whitish iridescence, suffusedly marbled with light brownish- 
ochreous ; lower half of basal patch represented by an oblique fasciate spot of 
blackish irroration from dorsum towards base; a triangular costal blotch of 
blackish suffusion somewhat beyond middle reaching half across wing, its 
apex almost cut off by a small ochreous-whitish spot, towards costa including 
some dark indigo-grey marks; three pairs of faint whitish costal strigulae 
beyond this, separated b}r small darker spots; a small blackish apical spot; 
an upwards-oblique streak of blackish irroration from middle of termen 
reaching about half-way to costa and rather expanded upwards: cilia red- 
brownish becoming pale ochreous towards tornus, on upper portion indistinctly 
barred with blackish-grey irroration. Hindwings grey, darker towards apex; 
cilia grey-whitish, with grey subbasal line. 
Portuguese East Africa, Magude, in November (Swierstra) ; one speci- 
men. Somewhat allied to scorpiodes. 
Polychrosis stenaspis n.sp. 
(J 13 mm. Head whitish, crown mixed with fuscous. Palpi whitish irrorated 
with fuscous. Thorax fuscous speckled with whitish. Abdomen dark grey. 
Forewings elongate-triangular, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen 
slightly rounded, rather oblique; fuscous, tips of scales whitish; an oblique 
transverse brownish-ochreous spot from costa at becoming dark fuscous 
