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Annals of the Tkansvaal Museum. 
strigulae ; basal patch more strigulated with black, outer edge marked 
by a slightly curved brown streak ; central fascia rather broad, straight, 
rather oblique, brown sprinkled with blackish, costal half mostly suffused 
with blackish except a costal spot of leaden-grey and whitish scales and 
a round whitish spot just within posterior edge in disc, dorsal edge suffused 
with blackish ; a transverse-ovate brown blotch sprinkled with black 
resting on middle of termen ; two small brown spots mixed with black 
on costa towards apex, and a larger and blacker one at apex ; cilia pale 
brownish mixed with whitish, with a brown sub-basal line dotted with 
blackish and becoming black round apical spot. Hindwings grey ; cilia 
whitish-grey, with grey sub -basal shade. 
Haenertsburg (Swierstra) ; in December, one specimen. Type in 
Trans v. al Museum. 
Geleohiadae. 
Melzneria heptacenlra , n. sp. 
<}. 12-13 mm. Head and thorax whitish- ochreous somewhat mixed 
with brownish- ochreous. Palpi whitish-ochreous, sprinkled with dark 
brown points. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, very 
narrow, costa slightly arched, apex round-pointed, termen extremely 
obliquely rounded ; whitish-ochreous, thinly sprinkled with brownish and 
dark fuscous, irregularly suffused with yellow-ochreous in disc and pos- 
teriorly ; a small spot of blackish suffusion on base of costa, a dot beneath 
costa near base, and another on fold beyond this ; a stronger black dot 
towards costa at two- fifths, one on fold beyond this, one in disc beyond 
middle, and one at f ; a narrow suffused dark fuscous fascia along termen, 
preceded by a clear yellow-ochreous fascia ; cilia yellow-ochreous, sprinkled 
with blackish towards base. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia pale yellow- 
ochreous. 
Woodbush Village (Swierstra) ; in December, two specimens. Type 
in Transvaal Museum. 
Paltodora invida, n. sp. 
26 mm. Head fuscous mixed with whitish. Palpi with second 
joint dark fuscous, apical edge white, terminal joint whitish sprinkled 
with dark fuscous. Thorax dark fuscous sprinkled with whitish, with a 
blackish stripe on each side of back. Abdomen dark fuscous, sides mixed 
with whitish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex 
slenderly produced, acute, termen sinuate, extremely oblique ; dark 
fuscous, slightly whitish-sprinkled, streaked with ochreous-brown between 
veins in disc ; a slender black streak along sub-median fold from near base 
to middle of wing, edged above by a whitish streak ; a slender black streak 
in disc from middle to near § ; a streak of blackish suffusion along upper 
part of termen to apex ; cilia fuscous, basal half mixed with darker. Hind- 
wings rather dark grey ; cilia as in forewings. 
Ngqeleni, West Pondoland (Swinny) ; in August, one specimen. 
Type in Trinsvial Museum. 
Epitheclis carinata , n. sp. 
10 mm. Head whitish, sprinkled with blackish. Palpi whitish, 
second joint irrorated with blackish except apex, terminal joint with 
