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Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
towards base white. Antennae dark fuscous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. 
Forewings elongate-lanceolate, long-pointed, acute; grey, irregularly and 
suffusedly mixed with whitish-ochreous, and posteriorly with whitish; 
a suffused whitish median streak from base to middle ; cilia greyish- 
ochreous, base mixed with whitish. Hindwings with 5 absent ; grey ; 
cilia greyish- ochreous. 
Woodbush Village (Swierstra) ; in December, one specimen. Type 
in Transvaal Museum. 
Scythris anlhracodelta, n. sp. 
<J. 18 mm. Head grey, crown blackish-grey. Palpi dark grey 
sprinkled with whitish. Thorax pale grey, sprinkled and anteriorly suffused 
with blackish. Abdomen pale ochreous-grey. Forewings elongate, narrow, 
long-pointed, acute, termen faintly sinuate, extremely oblique ; 5 present ; 
pale grey, thinly sprinkled with black points ; a triangular blackish blotch 
on dorsum before middle, reaching half across wing ; an indistinct blackish 
dot in disc before f : cilia light greyish-ochreous. Hindwings nearly 1, 4 
and 5 stalked ; grey ; cilia light greyish-ochreous. 
Woodbush Village (Swierstra) ; in December, one specimen. Type 
in Coll. Meyrick. 
Scythris jonticola, n. sp. 
13 mm. Head grey, sides of crown whitish. Palpi dark grey 
mixed with white. Antennae dark grey. Thorax grey, sides suffused 
with white. Abdomen grey, anal tuft whitish-ochreous, undersurface 
ochreous- whitish. Forewings elongate-lanceolate, acute ; grey, with a 
faint purplish tinge ; stigmata represented by very obscure spots of darker 
suffusion, discal approximated, plical obliquely before first discal ; a rather 
broad white sub-median streak from base (where it extends suffusedly to 
basal portion of dorsum) to first discal stigma, impressed beneath by plical, 
and continued by some scattered white scales to and round second discal ; 
a suffused white dot at apex : cilia ochreous-grey. Hindwings §, 5 separate ; 
grey ; cilia ochreous-grey. 
Moorddrift (Swierstra) ; in October, one specimen. Type in Coll 
Meyrick. 
Oecophoridae. 
Borkhausenia acid a, n. sp. 
$. 12 mm. Head and thorax pale yeJlow-ochreous. Palpi whitish- 
ochreous, irrorated with dark fuscous except towards apex. Abdomen 
grey, segmental margins whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, rather 
narrow, costa gently arched, apex acute, termen faintly sinuate, extremely 
oblique; glossy light yellow- ochreous, apical f strewn with scattered 
blackish points ; discal stigmata blackish, second forming apex of an erect 
transverse mark of blackish irroration from tornus ; cilia whitish-ochreous, 
towards base somewhat sprinkled with blackish points. Hindwings very 
acute ; grey ; cilia whitish-ochreous. 
Haenertsburg (Swierstra) ; in December, one specimen. Type in 
Transvaal Mus um. 
Alloclita xylodesma, n. sp. 
?. 17 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, sides of crown more ochreous, 
