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Annals or the Tkansvaal Museum. 
Carposina hr achy centra, n. sp. 
c£. 14 mm. Head white. Palpi If, porrected, white, second joint 
blackish except apex, terminal joint with a blackish median ring. Antennal 
ciliations 4. Thorax white, anterior margin light brownish. Abdomen 
grey- whitish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex 
obtuse, termen straight, rather oblique ; pale greyish-ochreous, irrorated 
with white and grey specks ; costal edge blackish towards base ; a small 
light brownish spot centred with blackish on costa near base, and a blackish 
dot on dorsum near base, connected by a very faint pale brownish line ; 
six cloudy blackish dots on costa from ^ to near apex, with short blackish 
marks beneath first two, and a longer oblique black mark beneath fourth ; 
a faint greyish subquadrate blotch in disc beyond middle, its lateral 
margins concave, with a short blackish mark beneath middle of its upper 
margin ; a faint greyish curved transverse shade from fourth costal dot to 
tornus ; cilia pale greyish irrorated with white. Hindwings with basal 
pecten of very short scales ; whitish-grey, greyer towards apex ; cilia 
grey- whitish. 
Sarnia, Natal, in January (Janse) ; one specimen. Allied to impavida 
from the Comoro Islands. 
Eucosmidae. 
Ancylis falsicoma, n. sp. 
A $• 13-15 mm. Head white, somewhat mixed with blackish, crown 
brown. Palpi white, second joint with three or four small grey spots. 
Thorax brown, patagia white mixed with dark fuscous. Abdomen grey. 
Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex tolerably 
pointed, prominent, termen abruptly concave on upper half, rounded 
beneath, rather oblique ; white, with some scattered black scales ; costa 
black strigulated throughout with white ; an irregular elongate black patch 
transversely streaked with white irroration extending along dorsum from, 
base to beyond middle, and reaching about half across wing ; a very oblique 
black streak from middle of costa, reaching half-way towards concavity of 
termen ; black costal space between this and apex edged beneath with 
fulvous-ochreous ; posterior third of wing otherwise black closely and 
finely irrorated with white, margins of ocellus formed by two thick irregular 
silvery-metallic streaks reaching f across wing ; cilia white, tinged with 
grey towards tornus and tips, above apex black. Hindwings with 3 and 4 
short-stalked ; grey, darker on veins and posteriorly ; cilia grey. 
Pretoria, in November and December (Janse) ; two specimens. Also 
one in my collection from Pinetown, Natal, in January (Leigh). 
Eucosma lutrocopa, n. sp. 
cJ. 15 mm. Head whitish-ochreous-grey. Palpi with dense long 
rough scales, pale grey. Thorax ochreous-whitish, with grey spots on 
shoulders and three in a triangle on back. Abdomen grey, anal tuft 
whitish. Forewings elongate, posteriorly slightly dilated, costa gently 
arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly sinuate above middle, hardly oblique, 
rounded beneath ; light greyish-ochreous ; costa dark fuscous, with pairs 
