Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
105 
Chalcocolona cyananihes Meyr. 
cJ 15mm. Head metallic coppery-bronze, lower part of face oclireous- 
whitish, sidetufts small, orange. Palpi orange-yellowish, second joint with 
subapical fuscous band, terminal joint with two dark fuscous bands, tip 
whitish. Thorax deep greyish-fulvous, an antemedian band and posterior spot 
bronzy-metallic, tips of patagia whitish. Abdomen grey, segmental margins 
whitish, sides suffused with ochreous-bronze. Forewings elongate, costa gently 
arched, apex pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded ; dull orange-fulvous 
tinged with grey; rather large raised metallic purplish-bronze spots edged 
posteriorly with bla.ckish, viz. oblique series of three each near base and from 
A of costa to I- of dorsum, a spot on costa at f followed by an ochreous-white 
transverse spot from which a blackish transverse irregular streak or blotch 
runs nearly to dorsum, two transverse spots nearly uniting to form a transverse 
streak beyond middle, and roundish spots above and below middle at f, 
surrounded by some suffused black marking in disc; a triangular white spot 
on costa towards apex; a suffused black streak along termen; cilia dark grey, 
base spotted with purple-bronzy-metallic. Hindwings dark grey; cilia grey. 
Rhodesia, Victoria Falls and Sawmills, in January and February (Janse) ; 
two specimens. I have redescribed this from the new and better material. 
Proceleustis plumharia n.sp. 
(J 15-16 mm. Head light greyish-ochreous. Palpi whitish, second and 
terminal joints each with two dark fuscous bands. Thorax dark fuscous, in 
one specimen with three small ochreous-whitish spots posteriorly, in the other 
mostly suffused with ochreous-whitish. Abdomen grey dorsally tinged with 
pale ochreous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex 
obtuse-pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; dark fuscous; a transverse 
series of three leaden-grey spots at base; four obscurely defined transverse 
fasciae composed of whitish spots on costa and dorsum and light leaden-grey- 
metallic blotches connecting them, fourth at f , angulated ; discal stigmata on 
each side of third ‘fascia, dark fuscous irregularly edged with whitish and 
brownish; in one specimen the space between first two fasciae suffusedly 
mixed with whitish and pale ochreous: cilia grey with rather darker median 
and apical shades, towards base mixed with dark fuscous. Hindwings and cilia 
grey. 
Rhodesia, Sawmills, in February (Janse); two specimens. 
XYLORYCTIDAE 
Eporycta incanescens n.sp. 
(J 28 mm. Head and thorax light grey partially mixed with white. Palpi 
grey sprinkled with white. Antennal pectinations i. Abdomen grey-whitish, 
segments banded with coppery-bronze. Forewings elongate, costa gently 
arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded; rather light grey sprinkled 
with white, more strongly in disc, with median longitudinal streak of white 
suffusion from base to about end of cell; a faint grey transverse mark on end 
of cell: cilia grey-whitish. Hindwings light grey; cilia white. 
Natal, Karkloof, in January (Janse); one specimen. Allied to pachnoscia 
from Madagascar, which however has the termen of forewings more oblique, 
all the stigmata distinct, and antennal pectinations longer. 
