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Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
Depressaria dryocrates n.sp. 
^ $ 20-23 mm. Head brownish mixed with lighter and darker, face ochreous- 
whitish. Palpi greyish-ochreous partly tinged with brown, second joint 
sprinkled with dark fuscous, terminal joint thickened with loose scales, with 
two bands of dark fuscous suffusion. Thorax brown somewhat mixed with dark 
fuscous. Abdomen greyish. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex 
rounded, termen rounded, somewhat oblique; 2 and 3 stalked; brown, with 
scattered blackish scales tending to form irregular strigulae, anterior half of 
costa tinged with reddish-fuscous, with four pairs of blackish strigulae ; a small 
dark fuscous spot on base of dorsum ; discal stigmata very small, white, some 
reddish tinge between them; plical stigma represented by a dot of dark fuscous 
suffusion, somewhat obliquely beyond first discal; an undefined irregular spot 
of dark fuscous suffusion obliquely above and before second discal ; an angulated 
pale shade from f of costa to tornus, irregularly edged with brown-reddish 
suffusion; a marginal series of cloudy da.rk fuscous dots round posterior part 
of costa and termen: cilia brownish, pale-sprinkled. Hindwings light grey; 
three dark grey marginal marks round apex; cilia whitish-grey. 
N.\tal, Karkloof, in January (Janse); two specimens. The $ specimen is 
the type; ’^he S is lighter in general colouring, without reddish tinge, but this 
may be partly due to its less perfect condition. 
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Plesiosticha n.g. ^ 
Head with loosely appressed hairs; ocelli posterior; tongue short. Antennae 
|, in d serrate, minutely ciliated, basal joint moderate, with pecten. Labial 
palpi moderate, curved, ascending, second joint not reaching base of antennae, 
thickened with appressed scales, terminal joint somewhat shorter than second, 
moderate, pointed . Maxillary palpi rudimentary. Posterior tibiae rough-haired 
above. Forewings with 2 and 3 closely approximated from angle, or stalked, 
7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa, ii from before middle. Hindwings i, elongate- 
)vate, cilia i ; 3 and connate, 5-7 nearly parallel. 
Related to Cryptolechia. Type galactaea Meyr. ; I refer here also the allied 
xcida, endocentra, and practicodes. 
Plesiosticha galactaea Meyr., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1908, 732. 
13-14 mm. Head whitish-yellowish. Palpi whitish, second joint dark 
.uscous except towards apex, terminal joint with base and a supramedian band 
olackish. Thorax whitish, anterior margin blackish. Abdomen ochreous- 
whitish. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen very 
obliquely rounded; whitish more or less sprinkled with grey; a black dot 
towards costa near base, one in disc towards , and one beneath fold between 
these; stigmata moderate, black, plical obliquely beyond first discal, a^small 
additional dot near before second discal; an almost marginal series of black 
dots along posterior half of costa and termen to before tornus : cilia light grey 
irrorated with whitish. Hindwings grey; cilia grey- whitish. 
Rhodesia, Sawmills, in February (Janse); Portuguese East Africa, 
Magude, in November (Swierstra) ; eight specimens. I redescribe this species 
from better material, showing the additional spots usually perceptible, but 
obsolescent or defaced in the earlier examples. 
Orygocera recordata n.sp. 
(J 12 mm. Head pale ochreous more or less irrorated with crimson-fuscous. 
Palpi ochreous-whitish or pale ochreous irrorated with dark fuscous-crimson, 
terminal joint hardly half second. Thorax pale ochreous suffused with fuscous- 
