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fine oblique fuscous lines suffused with yellowish from costa about | uniting i 
and running to a small black apical dot: cilia pale grey, scaled with white 
towards base, round apex tinged with ochreous. Hindwings grey; cilia whitish^ | 
grey. f 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in January (Swierstra) ; one specimen. j 
Opostega orophoxantha n.sp. 
$ lo mm. Head whitish. Thorax light grey, patagia whitish except shoulders. 
Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate-lanceolate, apex produced; light grey^ 
costal edge whitish ; an orange apical patch, its anterior edge acutely emarginate 
and edged by a very oblique suffused dark grey strigula from costa beyond 
middle; a round black apical dot: cilia whitish, tinged with grey towards 
tornus and round apex, on costa with two fine blackish bars converging to , 
apex, round apex with a curved subapical blackish line, on upper part of 
termen with a blackish subbasal line. Hindwings dark grey; cilia grey. 
Rhodesia, Umtali, in January (Janse); one specimen. 
Phyllocnistis pharetrucha n.sy. 
d $ 7 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen shining whitish. Forewings 
narrowly elongate-lanceolate, apex caudate; shining whitish; a light brassy- a 
yellowish median streak from base to beyond middle, edged by two well- 
marked fine dark fuscous lines; a fine oblique dark fuscous striga from middle ■ 
of costa to just beyond apex of this; a fine hardly excurved direct transverse 
dark fuscous line at f ; wing beyond this mostly suffused with pale brassy- 
yellowish, apex suffused with fuscous, with a round black apical dot : cilia 
whitish, with two fine direct dark fuscous bars on costa before apex, one 
somewhat oblique above apex, two projecting and diverging from apex, and 
an antemedian line on termen, wtthin this tinged with fuscous. Hindwings 
light grey; cilia whitish. 
Natal, Karkloof, in January (Janse); two specimens. 
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Bucculatrix edocta n.sp. 
(J $ 6-7 mm. Head and thorax white or whitish, hairs of crown sometimes 
centrally tinged with fuscous. Abdomen whitish. Forewings lanceolate; 
ochreous-white ; a black raised dot on fold beneath middle of wing, and one 
towards costa at f , sometimes a few dark scales preceding or following first 
of these’; a small group of blackish scales on tornus, and some on termen or 
base of cilia beneath apex: cilia ochreous-white. Hindwings pale grey; cilia a 
ochreous- whitish . 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in February and March (Swierstra); five specimens; 
also one seen from Cape Colony, Capetown. In galeodes there is no ochreous 
tinge of ground colour, and the subcostal black dot is much more remote from 
subdorsal and nearer apex. 
Oinophila amphicrossa n.sp. 
cj 6 mm.. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax whitish-ochreous, antennae 
rather stout. Abdomen pale greyish, anal tuft whitish-ochreous. Forewings 
narrow-lanceolate, long-pointed, costal cilia unusually long and starting from 
J; 3 and 4 absent, 6 and 7 out of 8, 7 to costa, ii absent; an expansible hair- 
pencil from base of costa beneath; whitish-ochreous, tinged with yellow, 
strewn with small irregular spots or marks of blackish scales, and a few 
scattered scales: cilia ochreous- whitish. Hindwings pale grey; cilia whitish, 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in February and March (Swierstra) ; five specimens. 
