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Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
2, 4, and 5; small black apical dots on all segments; cilia whitish, ochreous- 
yellowish on markings and round apex of segments. Hindwings white; mark- 
ings ochreous-yellow edged with some black specks; a subbasal fascia of 
blackish irroration; a rather broad fascia crossing wing at irrorated with 
blackish on segments 5, 6; a slender irregular postmedian fascia, blackish- 
sprinkled on segment 6; fascia at f as in forewings, but reduced to blackish 
irroration on segment 6; apical markings and cilia as in forewings. 
Portuguese East Africa, Magude, in November (Swierstra) ; one speci- 
men. 
Orneodes granata n.sp. 
cJ 16 mm. Head and thorax grey-whitish irrorated with grey and trans- 
versely barred with dark fuscous. Palpi 3^-, basal joint white, second joint 
long, porrected, densely scaled, dark fuscous, scales roughly projecting above 
and shortly at apex beneath, terminal joint half second, rather stout, pointed, 
whitish with black median band. Abdomen whitish mixed with grey, and 
transversely lined with dark fuscous. Forewings with first segment grey, 
crossed by seven quadrate somewhat darker spots edged first with blackish- 
grey and then with white ; segments 2-6 grey, crossed on posterior half of wing 
by four series of whitish dots edged with blackish-grey; blackish-grey apical 
dots on all segments : cilia grey-whitish, with four zigzag series of whitish bars 
edged with dark grey suffusion, at apex whitish with short transverse blackish- 
grey median marks. Hindwings with all segments white finely ribbed trans- 
versely with blackish; cilia as in forewings. 
Portuguese East Africa, Magude, in November (Swierstra) ; one speci- 
men. 
Orneodes homotrocha n.sp. 
$ 18 mm. Head white slightly sprinkled with pale grey. Palpi straight, 
porrected, dark grey, terminal joint extremely short, tip whitish. Thorax grey- 
whitish irrorated with grey. Abdomen white, segmental margins speckled 
with dark fuscous. Forewings ochreous-grey-whitish speckled with dark grey; 
some scattered minute dots and marks of dark fuscous irroration on anterior 
half; six small transverse somewhat darker-irrorated spots on first segment, 
edged with white; on segments 2-6 rather narrow gently curved parallel post- 
median and subterminal faintly greyer fasciae, of even width throughout, edged 
with blackish-grey and then with white; a black apical dot on each segment, 
edged anteriorly with white: cilia white, on fasciae pale greyish-ochreous 
speckled with dark grey, at apex of segments pale greyish-ochreous within a 
blackish antemedian line. Hindwings as segments 2-6 of forewings. 
Rhodesia, Sawmills, in February (Janse); one specimen. 
HELIOZELIDAE 
Antispila salutans n.sp. 
(J $ 4-5 mm. Head shining silver-metallic, sides of face whiter. Palpi 
whitish. Thorax silver-grey-metallic. Abdomen dark grey. Forewings broad- 
lanceolate; dark purple-fuscous, with indigo-blue reflections; a shining white 
slender transverse fascia at triangularly expanded towards dorsum; shining 
white triangular costal and. dorsal spots at about f, nearly meeting, costal 
somewhat posterior : cilia pale grey or whitish-grey, basal third within a black 
line dark violet-grey. Hindwings and cilia grey. 
Natal, Durban, in October (Janse); five specimens. 
