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Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
ochreous, with interrupted fuscous antemedian line. Hindwings pale greyish; 
cilia whitish-ochreous, with a faint grey antemedian line round apex. 
Transvaal, Minastone, in February (Breijer); one specimen. 
Brachmia alhicincta n.sp. 
$ 14 mm. Head ochreous-whitish irrorated with pale grey. Palpi whitish- 
ochreous irregularly sprinkled with dark fuscous. Thorax whitish-ochreous 
irrorated with light grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently 
arched, apex obtuse-pointed, termen rounded, rather strongly oblique; 7 and 
8 stalked, 7 to apex; greyish-ochreous sprinkled with dark grey, especially on 
veins; stigmata dark fuscous, edged with some whitish scales, plical less dis- 
tinct, hardly beyond first discal; a suffused rather dark fuscous streak from 
second discal to apex, strongest at apex, and a slight indistinct streak beneath 
it; a marginal series of dark fuscous dots round apical portion of costa and 
termen: cilia light greyish-ochreous somewhat mixed with fuscous, with a 
fuscous subapical line. Hindwings light grey, towards base whitish; cilia 
ochreous-whitish, with faint pale grey subbasal shade. 
Cape Colony, Port St John, in February (Swinny); one specimen. „ 
Brachmia hemiopa n.sp. 
d ? 12-13 rnm. Head and thorax light brownish, face whitish-tinged. Palpi 
whitish somewhat tinged with brownish. Abdomen light grey tinged with 
brownish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse- 
pointed, termen rounded, rather strongly oblique; 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex; 
brown; extreme costal edge ochreous-whitish; discal stigmata hardly darker, 
edged above by crescentic whitish marks, plical rather obliquely before first 
discal, cloudy, dark fuscous, edged on each side with white; a more or less 
obscurely indicated pale ochreous somewhat angulated shade from | of costa 
to tornus: cilia light brownish-ochreous, basal portion obscurely barred with 
light brownish. Hindwings rather light grey; cilia ochreous-grey-whitish, with 
faint greyish subbasal shade. 
Rhodesia, Umtali, Sawmills, in January and February (Janse); three 
specimens. 
Brachmia craticula n.sp. 
d' 10 mm. Head whitish, crown suffused with light grey towards centre. 
Palpi whitish, second joint sprinkled with dark fuscous, terminal joint with 
a streak of dark fuscous suffusion on each side except towards apex. Thorax 
whitish, with three dark fuscous streaks, and a spot on shoulder. Abdomen 
grey, anal tuft grey-whitish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa slightly 
arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded; 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex; 
ochreous-whitish irregularly streaked longitudinally with brown suffusion and 
dark fuscous irroration, a stronger blackish streak along fold; short very 
oblique dark fuscous streaks from costa at base and before and beyond J; 
plical stigma represented by a segment of blackish plical streak cut off by 
white marks, discal stigmata by a dark fuscous streak with anterior extremity 
cut off by white, and posterior nearly encircled by a white ring ; a fine whitish 
very oblique striga from costa at f ; some minute white dots round posterior 
part of costa and termen, termen blackish between these: cilia grey, base 
spotted with ochreous-whitish, on costa suffused with ochreous-whitish. Hind- 
wings light slaty-grey; cilia pale grey. 
Portuguese East Africa, Magude, in October (Swierstra) and Inyack 
Island, in September (Breijer); two specimens. Allied to fiscinata. 
