Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
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lanceolate; fuscous; a rather broad suffused pale ochreous-yellowish median 
streak from base to apex, suffused into costa towards apex : cilia grey, at apex 
with a bar of pale yellowish suffusion. Hind wings with 4 and 5 connate; rather 
dark grey; cilia light greyish. 
Portuguese East Africa, Magude, in October and November (Swierstra) ; 
two specimens. 
Scythris eloquens n.sp. 
11 mm. Head and thorax pale greyish-ochreous, face suffused with 
whitish. Palpi whitish, anteriorly suffused with grey. Abdomen grey, anal 
tuft and ventral surface ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate-lanceolate, apex 
slightly produced; fuscous, lighter on dorsal area; a moderate whitish streak 
from base along fold throughout, somewhat suffused on termen; plical and 
second discal stigmata forming small roundish spots of darker fuscous suffusion 
indenting lower and upper margins of this respectively ; cilia ochreous-whitish, 
at apex with a fuscous bar, towards tornus light greyish. Hind wings • with 
^ and 5 separate ; rather dark grey ; cilia grey. 
Portuguese East Africa, Magude, in November (Swierstra) ; one speci- 
men. 
Scythris concurrens n.sp. 
S 10 mm. Head and thorax whitish, faintly tinged with pale greyish- 
ochreous above. Palpi whitish, anterior edge grey. Abdomen grey, anal tuft 
and ventral surface whitish. Forewings elongate-lanceolate, apex slightly pro- 
duced; fuscous-grey; a suffused white streak along costa from base to near 
apex, with suffused whitish lines along veins running into it; an irregular 
suffused white streak from base along fold throughout, and thence along termen 
to apex; dorsal area beneath this mostly suffused with whitish anteriorly, 
posteriorly with a defined whitish line along vein i b ; plical and second discal 
stigmata indicated as cloudy round grey spots indenting lower and upper 
margins of plical streak respectively : cilia light grey, at apex with a white bar, 
Hindwingswith 4 and 5 connate; grey; cilia grey-whitish, on costa more greyish. 
Portuguese East Africa, Magude, in October and November (Swierstra) ; 
two specimens. 
Scythris distactica n.sp. 
12 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen whitish-grey. Forewings 
elongate-lanceolate ; light grey tinged with whitish ; a faint round cloudy some- 
what darker spot in disc at f: cilia concolorous. Hindwings i; 4 and 5 coin- 
cident; rather dark grey; cilia grey. 
Rhodesia, Sawmills, in February (Janse); one specimen. 
Scythris calciflua n.sp. 
cJ 14 mm. Head and thorax white slightly tinged with ochreous. Palpi 
white slightly sprinkled with grey. Abdomen whitish, anal tuft ochreous- 
whitish. Forewings elongate-lanceolate; white, sometimes partially minutely 
sprinkled with pale ochreous-grey on bases of scales: cilia white, towards 
tornus pale grey. Hindwings with 4 and 5 stalked or coincident; grey; cilia 
pale grey. 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in December and January (Swierstra); four speci- 
mens. At first sight much like cretiflua, but broader- winged, and in cretiflua 
4 and 5 of hindwings are separate, and cilia yellow-whitish ; it is more allied 
to chloraema] vulgata is smaller, and also narrower- winged. 
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