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Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
Parectopa cardamitis n.sp. 
8 mm. Head and thorax white, shoulders with a dark grey spot. Palpi 
white, second joint loosely scaled beneath. Abdomen whitish. Forewings very 
narrow, parallel-sided, long-pointed; grey irregularly and suffusedly irrorated 
with black; a rather irregular-edged white dorsal streak from base to tornus, 
finely edged with blackish scales above, continued as two fine appressed streaks 
along termen to near apex, where they meet a fine oblique white streak from 
costa, its origin preceded by a more oblique indistinct whitish strigula; a 
suffused blackish apical spot, edged above by a minute white costal dot ; cilia 
pale grey, round apex white, with two blackish lines and two slight projecting 
hooks beyond second. Hind wings grey; cilia pale grey. 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in March (Swierstra) ; one specimen. 
Gracilaria chalcanthes Meyr. 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in February (Swierstra) ; one specimen. Hitherto 
only recorded from Burma; it is however quite likely that it may be attached 
to a Leguminous plant of cultivation, in which case it may have been artificially 
introduced. 
Gracilaria titanitis n.sp. 
S lo mm. Head and thorax violet-grey, face ochreous-whitish. Palpi 
ochreous-whitish, tip of joints dark fuscous. Abdomen grey. Forewings very 
narrow, tolerably pointed ; light violet-grey, coarsely strigulated with blackish 
irroration; costa suffused with whitish and marked with irregular small black 
dots, with a small elongate black mark just beyond middle, towards apex of 
wing faintly ochreous-tinged : cilia grey, round apex with several suffused 
darker lines. Hindwings and cilia grey. 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in March (Swierstra) ; one specimen. 
Gracilaria porphyranthes n.sp. 
d' lo mm. Head pale bronzy-grey, face more whitish-tinged. Palpi whitish, 
second joint with a grey streak except at apex, terminal joint with dark fuscous 
subapical ring. Thorax purple-grey. Abdomen grey, anal tuft whitish-ochreous. 
Forewings very narrow, short-pointed; blackish-grey with strong purple re- 
flections: cilia grey, round apex with several obscure suffused blackish lines. 
Hindwings grey; cilia light grey. 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in March (Swierstra) ; one specimen. 
Gracilaria cataractias n.sp. 
S 9 mm. Head light brassy-yellowish, face and palpi whitish. Thorax light 
yellowish with violet reflections. Abdomen light grey, anal tuft whitish- 
ochreous. Forewings very narrow, short-pointed; light coppery-purple, costal 
third pale yellow-ochreous ; about 13 small black dots on costa from base to 
f ; a blackish dot in disc before middle; some dark violet-grey suffusion at 
apex: cilia grey, round apex with lines of black points. Hindwings rather dark 
violet-grey; cilia grey. 
Rhodesia, Victoria Falls; Transvaal, Rustenburg; in January and March 
(Janse); two specimens. 
EPERMENIADAE 
Epermenia conioptila n.sp. 
$ 14 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-whitish irregularly tinged with 
brownish, shoulders fuscous. Palpi whitish irrorated with dark grey. Abdomen 
whitish irrorated with grey. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, 
