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Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
GtELECHIADAE. 
Epiphthora cirrhaea , n. sp. 
$. 16 mm. Head and thorax white. Palpi white, terminal joint 
somewhat less than half second. Abdomen yellow- whitish. Forewings 
elongate-lanceolate, acute, apex somewhat produced ; white, tinged with 
yellowish posteriorly ; cilia yellow-whitish. Hindwings with obtuse emar- 
gination, produced apex J ; light grey ; cilia yellow- whitish. 
Pretoria, in February (Janse) ; one specimen. 
Aristotelia fluidescens, n. sp. 
<J. 12 mm. Head whitish. Palpi whitish, second joint irrorated 
with dark fuscous except apex, terminal joint with a more or less marked 
median ring of dark fuscous irroration. Thorax whitish-ochreous, shoulders 
sprinkled with dark fuscous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Forewings 
elongate-lanceolate, acute ; 6 and 7 out of 8 ; pale ochreous sprinkled 
with dark fuscous, more strongly in disc posteriorly, and tending sometimes 
to form fine streaks towards costa ; stigmata black, plical obliquely before 
first discal, second discal below middle of wing ; some groups of black 
scales towards apex on margins, and an undefined black apical dot ; cilia 
whitish-ochreous. Hindwings pale greyish ; cilia whitish-ochreous. 
New Hanover (Hardenberg) ; two specimens. 
Aristotelia balanocentra, n. sp. 
$. 11-12 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous. Palpi whitish, 
second joint fuscous sprinkled with dark fuscous, apex white. Forewings 
elongate-lanceolate, acute ; 6 separate ; fuscous irregularly mixed with 
dark fuscous ; a blackish dot beneath costa at one obliquely beneath 
and beyond it, a larger one beneath costa beyond J, a black dash on fold 
beneath this, and an elongate dot in disc at § ; cilia pale fuscous, round 
apex with two darker lines (imperfect). Hindwings pale grey ; cilia pale 
fuscous. 
New Hanover (Hardenberg) ; two specimens. Perhaps nearest 
prominula. 
Aristotelia chlorographa, n. sp. 
$. 11 mm. Head and thorax pale whitish-ochreous, patagia dark 
fuscous. Palpi ochreous-whitish, second joint with two bands of blackish 
irroration, terminal joint with extreme base and two bands blackish. Ab- 
domen grey. Forewings elongate-lanceolate ; 6 separate ; dark grey, with 
the bases of scales whitish ; a narrow irregular blackish basal fascia ; a 
whitish-yellowish streak formed of three confluent subtriangular spots 
extending along dorsum from this to near tornus, connected with a crescentic 
posteriorly convex whitish-yellowish mark in disc at -|, marked in concavity 
with a black dot ; three black slenderly white-edged fasciae from costa 
terminated by this streak, first at J, slender, little oblique, second at J, 
moderate, rather more oblique, mostly brown in disc and with a discal 
projection posteriorly, these two cut by a fine light brown longitudinal 
streak above middle, third at |, broader on costa, in disc with an acute 
