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dorsum bey ond middle ; a slender oblique brownish streak from costa 
beyond middle, reaching half across wing ; apex ochreous-yellowish, 
extending a projection along apical fifth of costa ; a smail black apical 
dot ; cilia whitish, above and below apex with subbasal fine grey lines 
forming an obtuse angle but not quite meeting, above apex with a faint 
grey line nearly at right angles to the first. Hindwings whitish ; cilia 
yellow- whitish. 
Sarnia, Natal, in January (Janse) ; one specimen. Intermediate 
between clastozona and cirrhocoma. 
Bucculatrix melipecta, n. sp. 
$. 7 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, frontal tuft mixed with fuscous, 
face whiter. Thorax ochreous-whitish with some black specks, shoulders 
yellowish-tinged. Abdomen whitish-grey. Forewings lanceolate, acute, 
broader than usual in the genus ; ochreous-whitish, finely sprinkled with 
black specks ; markings formed by close black irroration ; a short streak 
on base of costa ; a patch in disc at J ; a patch on costa slightly before 
middle, with some ochreous-yellowish suffusion beneath it ; a patch in disc 
beneath middle, and a thick streak from. |- of costa to termen above tornus, 
space between these suffused with ochreous-yellowish extending to tornus ; 
some coarse black scales towards dorsum before tornus ; a patch on costa 
before apex, preceded by some ochreous-yellowish suffusion ; cilia whitish, 
basal half round apex light yellowish sprinkled with fine black specks and 
limited by a black line. Hindwings whitish-grey ; cilia grey-whitish. 
Pretoria, in January (Janse) ; one specimen. 
Tineidae. 
Melasina numeraria , n. sp. 
<}. 23 mm. Head yellow-ochreous. Palpi rather long, densely 
scaled, rather dark fuscous, upper edge yellow-ochreous. Antennal pectina- 
tions 3. Thorax pale ochreous-yellowish, anteriorly suffused with brownish. 
Abdomen elongate, light fuscous, anal tuft pale yellowish. Forewings elon- 
gate, rather narrow, costa hardly arched except towards apex, apex obtuse, 
termen rounded, rather strongly oblique ; all veins separate ; light ochreous- 
yellowish, strewn except along costa with scattered dark fuscous scales 
more or less arranged in longitudinal lines, and tending to form small 
transverse strigulae ; costal edge dark fuscous towards base ; a dark 
fuscous dot on end of cell, and an irregular streak of dark fuscous irroration 
running from this to apex ; scattered dark fuscous scales along terminal 
edge ; cilia pale ochreous-yellowish, outer § suffused with pale fuscous. 
Hindwings pale greyish ; cilia whitish-ochreous. 
Johannesburg, in November (Linford) ; one specimen. 
Melasina terrestris, n. sp. 
(J, 16-18 mm. ; 22-23 mm. Head whitish-fuscous. Palpi moderate, 
second joint thickened with dense somewhat projecting scales, whitish- 
fuscous irr orated with dark fuscous. Antennal pectinations of $ 2. Thorax 
and abdomen rather dark fuscous, anal tuft of <J pale ochreous tinged with 
