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rounded; pale yellow-ochreous ; costal edge suffused with dark fuscous on 
basal fourth : cilia pale yellow-ochreous. Hind wings with 5 and 6 approximated 
at base; light grey, apical and terminal edge more or less suffused with whitish- | 
ochreous; cilia pale yellow-ochreous, more whitish towards tips. j 
Transvaal, Haenertsburg, in December (Swierstra); three specimens. I 
have hitherto regarded this as the ^ of tyrochlora, but now think it better to 
treat it as distinct; I have seen at least five males, all from Haenertsburg, and 
at least three tyrochlora, all females and all from Pretoria; the differences are 
apparent, and whilst they might be only sexual, I think it will be proper to 
treat them as specific until the two forms have been taken together. 
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NEPTICULIDAE ^ 
Nepticula macrochaeta n.sp. 
$ 5 mm. Head, antennae, and thorax whitish-ochreous. Abdomen greyish. 
Forewings lanceolate; whitish-ochreous, on posterior half speckled with grey: 
cilia whitish, round apex with a few grey specks. Hind wings whitish-grey; 
cilia whitish. Posterior tibiae above with a series of about five very long “ 
projecting bristles. 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in December (Swierstra); one specimen. J 
Nepticula xuthomitra n.sp. jf 
$ 6 mm. Head fulvous-ochreous, with a deeper fulvous bar between an- '- 
tennae. Eyecaps whitish. Thorax grey sprinkled with dark fuscous. Abdomen 
grey. Fore wings lanceolate; grey coarsely irrorated with dark fuscous: cilia 
grey- whitish sprinkled with dark fuscous. Hind wings grey; cilia whitish-grey. 1 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in January (Swierstra); one specimen. ' 
Nepticula caliginosa n.sp. 
? 5 mm. Head whitish-ochreous. Antennae pale grey, eyecaps whitish- . : 
ochreous. Thorax dark purplish-fuscous. Abdomen grey. Forewings lanceolate; ' I 
rather dark purplish-fuscous : cilia grey, basal half mixed with dark purplish- 
fuscous. Hindwings grey; cilia light grey. 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in November (Janse); one specimen. 
Nepticula protosema n.sp. 
d 5 mm. Head and eyecaps whitish-ochreous, antennae light grey. ThoraxW 
and abdomen dark grey. Forewings lanceolate ; dark grey, posteriorly irrorated 
with dark fuscous; a small grey-whitish spot on costa at |: cilia grey, round 
apex sprinkled with dark fuscous towards base. Hindwings dark grey; cilia 
grey. 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in April (vSwierstra) ; one specimen. 
HEPIALIDAE 
Gorgopis Walk. 
This genus and Dalaca Walk, are distinguished from Hepialus by veins 
7 and 8 of forewings (and hindwings) being short-stalked, connate, or closely 
approximated at base, whilst in Hepialus they are remote. In Gorgopis the 
antennae of ^ are strongly pectinated, in Dalaca they are simple or lamellate. 
