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Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
Crater ombris reluctans n.sp. 
cJ 13 mm. Head pale greyish-ochreous, hairs towards centre of forehead 
suffused with dark fuscous. Palpi pale greyish-ochreous mixed with dark 
fuscous, terminal joint dark fuscous except apex. Thorax pale greyish-ochreous 
suffusedly mixed with dark fuscous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous sprinkled with 
grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex tolerably 
pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded ; pale greyish-ochreous irregularly 
sprinkled with blackish, margins irregularly spotted with blackish irroration; 
a round blackish spot on fold at stigmata represented by round cloudy 
blackish spots, plical somewhat obliquely beyond first discal ; cilia pale greyish- 
ochreous, basal half sprinkled with blackish. Hindwings light grey; cilia pale 
greyish. ^ 
Rhodesia, Emangeni, in January (Janse); one specimen. 
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Theatrochora n.g. 
Head densely rough-haired; ocelli posterior; tongue obsolete. Antennae i, 
in S rather stout, simple, basal joint short, without pecten. Labial palpi 
moderate, porrected, loosely scaled. Maxillary palpi 3-jointed, folded, loosely ^ 
scaled. Posterior tibiae clothed with hairs above, and with long hairs ont ! ' 
posterior half beneath. Forewings with 2 from angle, 3 absent, 5 absent, 6 and^ ' 
7 stalked, 7 to costa, 9 absent, 10 from middle, ii from towards base. Hind- 
wings under i, lanceolate, cilia 2^] cell open between 2 and 5, 3 and 4 absent, 
5 and 6 stalked, 7 separate. 
Belongs to Tinea group; neuration apparently as stated, but it cannot be 
accurately determined that all the veins given as absent are really unrepre- 
sented. 
Theatrochora cosmophanes n.sp. 
cJ 6 mm. Head fulvous-orange, collar dark fuscous. Antennae dark grey, 
apical fifth white. Thorax silvery-metallic. Abdomen dark grey. Forewings ji 
elongate-lanceolate; bronzy-orange; costal half from base to middle blackish, ” 
divided at ^ by a transverse silvery bar, and limited posteriorly by a slightly 
curved narrow median transverse blue-silvery-whitish fascia, edged with some 
blackish scales; shining blue-silvery- whitish spots edged with dark fuscous on 
costa at f and before apex, one on tornus, and one in disc between these three ; 
cilia dark grey. Hindwings dark fuscous; cilia dark grey. j| 
Natal, Karkloof, in January (Janse); one specimen. 3 Kij 
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Tinea pentametra n.sp. 
$ II mm. Head grey mixed with whitish and dark fuscous. Palpi dark ' 
grey, apex of joints whitish. Thorax pale ochreous slightly sprinkled with 1 
blackish, anterior half irrorated with blackish. Forewings elongate, narrow, 
costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; white 
irrorated with blackish; five narrow slightly oblique transverse ochreous-brown 
fasciae more or less irregularly irrorated and marked with blackish, towards 
costa suffused with blackish, first three obtusely angulated in middle, third 
somewhat before middle, an ochreous-brown dorsal spot between third and | 
fourth, fourth rather broader, fifth direct; an ochreous-brownish apical spot | 
irrorated with blackish: cilia whitish with rows of grey points, basal area g 
irrorated with blackish. Hindwings rather dark grey with purple reflections; 
cilia grey. 
Transvaal, New Hanover, in September (Janse); one specimen. 
