Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
205 
fuscous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex 
obtuse, termen obliquely rounded, all veins separate ; fuscous somewhat 
sprinkled with whitish-fuscous, and with dark fuscous scales tending to 
form very obscure scattered strigulae ; cilia whitish-fuscous with rows of 
dark fuscous points. Hindwings rather dark fuscous ; cilia light fuscous 
with dark fuscous subbasal shade. 
Pretoria, in November and December (Janse) ; four specimens. 
Scardia saccharata, n. sp. 
?. 19 mm. Head and palpi ochreous-whitish. Thorax whitish- 
ochreous, shoulders mixed with brownish. Abdomen light fuscous. Fore- 
wings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, faintly sinuate in 
middle, apex obtuse, termen rounded, rather strongly oblique ; all veins 
separate ; pale yellow-ochreous, suffusedly mixed and mottled with white, 
with some scattered blackish scales tending to form strigulae, in disc 
posteriorly and towards termen in middle with several small white spots 
edged with distinct blackish strigulae ; base of costa and a subbasal strigula 
beneath costa black ; an oblong fuscous spot irr orated with black on middle 
of costa ; a semioval fuscous spot irrorated with black and surrounded 
with white on dorsum beyond middle, including a small white spot on 
dorsal edge ; cilia pale yellow-ochreous barred with white. Hindwings 
light ochreous-grey ; cilia whitish, base pale ochreous. 
New Hanover, in January (Hardenberg) ; one specimen. 
Adelidae. 
Ceromitia graptosema, n. sp. 
?. 20 mm. Head, palpi, and antennae white. Thorax white, 
towards middle infuscated. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, rather 
narrow, costa gently arched towards extremities, apex obtuse-pointed, 
termen very obliquely rounded ; all veins separate ; white; markings rather 
dark fuscous ; a moderate costal streak from base to near middle, costa 
thence to i marked with about nine oblique blackish strigulae, and posteriorly 
with two others more remote ; an oblique- trapezoidal blotch extending 
on dorsum from J to middle, narrowed upwards, reaching to about fold, 
its posterior angle produced as a rather thick streak to disc above middle ; 
a flattened triangular patch extending beneath costal strigulae from middle 
to f, crossed by an oblique leaden-metallic line near its anterior margin ; 
its apex extended as a curved streak near termen almost to costa, thus 
enclosing a clear white oval spot ; posterior dorsal half of wing enclosed 
between these markings strigulated with fuscous and dark fuscous ; a 
blackish line round termen ; cilia white, on costa with dark fuscous basal 
and apical lines, on termen mixed with fuscous at base and apex. Hind- 
wings with all veins separate ; grey, with bronzy- violet reflections ; cilia 
grey- whitish, with two faint grey shades. 
Pretoria, in October (Janse) ; one specimen. 
