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Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex acute, termen 
sinuate, very oblique; glossy dark lilac-grey-bronze ; two very obscure 
blackish dots transversely placed in disc at J- ; cilia concolorous. Hind- 
wings and cilia dark grey ; 4 and 5 stalked. 
Three Sisters, in April (Snooke) ; one specimen. 
Scythris fluctuosa , n. sp. 
c7. 11-12 mm. Head and thorax greyish-ochreous. Palpi whitish- 
ochreous mixed with grey. Abdomen grey, anal tuft whitish-ochreous, 
ventral surface whitish. Forewings elongate-lanceolate, apex produced, 
acute ; grey, very obscurely streaked on veins with ochreous-whitish, fold 
more or less distinctly suffused with whitish ; an indistinct line of darker 
or blackish grey scales above middle from near base to near second discal 
stigma ; plical and second discal stigmata indistinct, blackish, plical 
elongate, beneath middle of wing, second discal at § ; cilia grey, base mixed 
with ochreous-whitish. Hindwings f , 4 and 5 separate ; rather dark grey ; 
cilia fuscous. 
Pretoria, in October and January (Janse) ; two specimens. 
Scythris stag no sa Meyr. 
More strongly marked specimens, apparently of this species, have the 
costal area suffused with fuscous, plical and second discal stigmata fuscous. 
Scythris accumulata, n. sp. 
14 mm. Head and thorax white sprinkled with dark fuscous 
specks, thorax with an interrupted blackish bar on back behind collar. 
Palpi white sprinkled with dark fuscous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous 
irrorated with grey. Forewings elongate-lanceolate ; white, finely and irre- 
gularly irrorated with dark fuscous, tinged with grey towards costa posteriorly, 
the white colour more conspicuous along an undefined and irregular median 
longitudinal streak, becoming a more defined white line on apical third ; 
plical stigma elongate, blackish, with anterior extremity connected, by an 
undefined oblique blackish mark with dorsum, these edged above with 
clear white, dorsal area beneath them tinged with grey ; second discal stigma 
blackish ; cilia light ochreous-grey, base mixed with white, on costa mixed 
with darker fuscous. Hindwings £, 4 and 5 stalked ; light grey ; cilia 
light ochreous-grey. 
Pretoria, in February (Janse) ; one specimen. 
Scythris vulgata, n. sp. 
(J. 9-10 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax ochreous-whitish. Abdomen 
greyish-ochreous, anal tuft and ventral surface ochreous-whitish. Forewings 
lanceolate ; ochreous-whitish or pale whitish-ochreous ; costal edge grey 
towards base ; cilia ochreous-whitish, becoming pale ochreous towards 
tornus. Hindwings J, 4 and 5 separate ; grey ; cilia pale ochreous. 
Pretoria, in January (Janse) ; two specimens. 
