Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
79 
Acompsia sphenopis n.sp. 
15 mm. Head and thorax whitish-grey, face whitish. Palpi whitish, with 
a few grey specks, basal half of second joint dark fuscous. Abdomen pale grey^ 
anal tuft whitish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa slightly arched, 
apex obtuse-pointed, termen slightly rounded, very oblique; whitish-grey, 
somewhat sprinkled with dark grey and blackish ; an elongate-triangular black 
spot in disc before middle, apex directed posteriorly, edged with whitish; 
second discal stigma small, irregular, black, edged with whitish anteriorly: 
cilia light grey irrorated with whitish, rather darker round apex. Hindwings 
light grey; cilia whitish-ochreous-grey. 
Rhodesia, Sawmills, in February (Janse); one specimen. 
Anarsia nimbosa Meyr. 
I have now seen the d of this species, which is similar to the $, without 
special structures, palpi as usual in the genus. 
Anarsia semnopa n.sp. 
^ $ ii-i4mm. Head white. Palpi white, basal f of second joint dark 
fuscous, in $ terminal joint with two oblique approximated dark fuscous bands. 
Thorax white slightly speckled with grey, shoulders narrowly blackish. Abdo- 
men whitish-grey, anal tuft of S ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, rather 
narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded; pale 
grey suffusedly irrorated with white, with a few scattered black scales ; a black 
dot on base of costa, and sl%ht strigulae before and beyond a semioval 
blackish spot on middle of costa; an oblique blackish spot in disc somewhat 
before this, resting on a streak of grey suffusion mixed with blackish along 
fold to near extremity, connected with dorsum by suffused spots before middle 
and at |; an elongate black mark in disc at |; a small grey spot on costa above 
this; a streak of grey suffusion along termen, mixed with blackish on tornus: 
cilia grey, on costa whitish. Hindwings grey, anteriorly thinly scaled and sub- 
hyaline with violet-blue iridescence; cilia light grey. Forewings beneath in 
(J with expansible pencil of very long ochreous-whitish hairs from beneath cell 
towards base. 
Rhodesia, Umtali, in January (Janse); Portuguese East Africa, 
Magude, in October (Swierstra) ; four specimens. Type in Coll. Janse. 
Anarsia halioneura n.sp. 
(J 12 mm. Head and thorax light grey, forehead transversely marked with 
black. Palpi grey, with blackish streak above, towards apex mixed with white 
above. Abdomen whitish-grey sprinkled with black, anal tuft whitish-ochreous, 
genitalia large, clothed with long whitish-ochreous hairs. Forewings elongate, 
rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse-pointed, termen very obliquely 
rounded; grey irregularly irrorated with whitish, with scattered black scales; 
a narrow semioval suffused dark fuscous spot on middle of costa, and small 
spots before and beyond it, connected %vith it by dark grey suffusion which 
extends vaguely across wing and contains some black scales tending to form 
short longitudinal rows and some irroration along dorsum ; two or three short 
blackish marks at apex and on upper part of termen : cilia grey speckled with 
white, towards base speckled with blackish. Hindwings grey, thinly scaled and 
subhyaline in disc and towards base, veins suffused with dark grey; some long 
downwards-directed greyish hairs from beneath costa towards base ; cilia light 
grey. Hindwings beneath with a thickened streak of pale ochreous scales along 
anterior half of costa, edged beneath by a streak of black suffusion; veins on 
