Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
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Laspeyresia plerota n.sp. 
16 mm. Head and thorax pale violet-grey, face pale ochreous. Palpi 
whitish-ochreous. Abdomen pale ochreous sprinkled with fuscous. Forewings 
elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa gently arched, slightly bent beyond middle, 
apex obtuse, termen abruptly sinuate beneath apex, then bowed, somewhat 
oblique; light violet-grey; costal edge except towards base dark fuscous 
strigulated with whitish, last two strigulae stronger; subcostal space on 
posterior half ochreous-tinged, with three or four oblique blue strigae, last 
turned up to praeapical white strigula; some scattered black scales in apical 
third of wing; three or four black subterminal dots on lower half, and two or 
three fine black longitudinal strigulae continuing the curve of these towards 
costa; cilia pale glossy violet-grey, with blackish basal line. Hind wings grey; 
cilia grey- whitish, with dark fuscous basal line. 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in November (Janse); one specimen. Allied to 
chelias, of which it has nearly the peculiar form of forewings, but much larger 
and lighter-coloured. 
Laspeyresia euclera n.sp. 
^ 9 mm. Head and thorax dark fuscous, with violet gloss. Palpi whitish. 
Abdomen dark grey. Forewings rather elongate, posteriorly somewhat 
dilated, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, somewhat 
oblique; dark fuscous; costa marked with very fine irregularly placed white 
strigulae, seldom paired; an ochreous-white subtriangular median dorsal 
blotch reaching half across wing, anterior side convex, oblique, posterior 
straight, direct ; oblique blue-leaden strigae from costal strigulae beyond middle 
and at | reaching half across wing, each preceded by a fine line of black scales, 
and one or two fainter strigae before middle; ocellus limited laterally by two 
violet-leaden streaks, and containing three or four black linear dots or marks : 
cilia grey. Hind wings dark grey; cilia pale bluish-grey, with dark grey basal 
shade. 
Natal, Durban, in July (Janse); one specimen. 
Laspeyresia trigonoptila n.sp. 
S 12 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax fuscous suffusedly irrorated with pale 
ochreous. Abdomen blackish, anal tuft pale grey. Posterior tibiae with very 
large triangular expanded tuft of long pale greyish-ochreous hairs above from 
base extending almost to apex. Forewings somewhat dilated, costa gently 
arched, termen slightly sinuate just below apex, then slightly rounded, 
almost vertical; dark fuscous irrorated with pale ochreous, on costa forming 
indistinct strigulae from \ to |; four oblique blue-leaden strigae from costa 
between pairs of strigulae, fourth running to termen beneath apex; median 
and praetornal fasciae of dark indigo-leaden suffusion reaching from dorsum 
I across wing, first edged anteriorly by a slightly curved dark fuscous line, 
some fulvous-ochreous dots on these, and a patch of fulvous-ochreous mottling 
connecting them in disc and sending a striga past second into ocellus, which is 
limited posteriorly by a leaden mark, and includes three blackish dots: cilia 
violet-grey, with a patch of pale ochreous suffusion on lower half of termen, 
and a slight mark beneath apex. Hind wings clothed with blackish scales 
arranged in longitudinal rows very finely separated with grey- whitish, towards 
termen wholly dark fuscous ; a rounded dorsal lobe from near base not reaching 
tornus; cilia grey-whitish, with dark fuscous basal line, round apex grey. 
Portuguese East Africa, Magude, in September (Swierstra) ; one speci- 
men. 
