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Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
anterior edge inwards-oblique from costa: cilia ochreous-whitish, towards 
tornus suffiised with pale grey. Hindwings with 6 and 7 stalked; pale grey; 
cilia ochreous-whitish. | 
Portuguese East Africa, Magude, in October (Swierstra) ; one specimen, | 
Axiarcha n.g. 
Head smooth; ocelli very small, posterior; tongue developed. Antennae 
I , in (7 simple, basal joint elongate. Labial palpi long, recurved, second joint 
with appressed scales roughly projecting towards apex beneath, terminal joint 
as long as second, slender, acute. Maxillary palpi rudimentary. Posterior 
tibiae clothed with long hairs above. Forewings with 2 from towards angle, 
3-5 approximated at base, 7 and 8 out of 6, 7 to costa, ii from middle. Hind- 
wings f , lanceolate, cilia 3; 4 absent, 5 and 6 stalked, 7 approximated. 
Perhaps a development of Limnoecia. 
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Axiarcha discosema n.sp. 
(7 14 mm. Head whitish. Palpi white, second joint dark grey except apex. 
Thorax whitish, shoulders with a dark grey spot. Abdomen whitish, two basal 
segments with dark grey dorsal patches, other segments dark grey at base. 
Forewings elongate-lanceolate ; whitish ; costal edge dark grey anteriorly, edged n 
beneath by a streak of chestnut-brown suffusion, a blackish dot on its lower 
margin near base; a rather broad streak of pale ochreous suffusion along fold;! ! 
three oval leaden spots irrorated with black, viz. one longitudinal before middle! 
of disc (first discal stigma), one longitudinal obliquely before and above this, | 
and one transverse (second discal stigma) touching tornus ; a few black scales 
representing plical stigma very obliquely before first discal; a streak of chest- 
nut-brown suffusion from above middle of disc to costa before apex, posteriorly 
dilated, more broadly suffused throughout with pale ochreous; some pale 
ochreous suffusion along termen; scattered dark grey specks along margins 
of wing: cilia pale ochreous. Hindwings grey; cilia pale ochreous. 
Cape Colony, Capetown, in April (Lord Gladstone) ; one specimen. Type 
in Transvaal Museum. 
Ascalenia Wocke. 
I regret to have overlooked this genus ; I find it undoubtedly identical with 
my Cholotis, over which it has priority. 
Ascalenia stagnans n.sp. 
$ 8 mm. Head and thorax dark fuscous, face whitish. Palpi whitish, 
second joint irrorated with dark fuscous except apex, terminal joint dark 
fuscous with anterior series of white specks. Abdomen shining grey. Forewings 
lanceolate, apex acute ; fuscous suffusedly irrorated with dark fuscous ; stigmata 
large, dark fuscous, plical beneath first discal, a transverse whitish discal 
blotch with a few dark fuscous scales between and touching all these ; opposite 
whitish costal and tornal spots at f : cilia grey, whitish-tinged towards tornus, 
on costa dark fuscous. Hindwings grey; cilia 6, whitish-grey. 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in September (Swierstra); one specimen. 
Ascalenia phaneracma n.sp. 
cJ $ II mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark bronzy-fuscous. Antennae dark 
fuscous, apical fourth white. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate-lanceolate; 
dark bronzy-fuscous; plical and second discal stigmata hardly perceptibly 
darker; very obscure small cloudy grey-whitish opposite dots at | of costa 
