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Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
on veins posteriorly, elsewhere suffusedly mixed with grey- whitish ; a 
transverse linear blackish mark on end of cell, edged with whitish suffusion ; 
a terminal series of blackish dots ; cilia fuscous suffusedly mixed with 
whitish. Hind wings grey, lighter anteriorly ; cilia grey- whitish, with grey 
sub-basal line. 
Woodbush Village (Swierstra) ; in December, two specimens. Type 
in Coll. Meyrick. 
Palaetheta Meyr. 
In the generic characters vein 2 of forewings should be stated to rise 
from f to f of cell, 3 from angle (not 2 and 3 stalked, as given). 
Palaetheta innocua, n. sp. 
$. 17 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-white. Palpi whitish, 
second joint suffused with pale ochreous except towards apex, tuft short 
but rather broad. Abdomen pale ochreous. Forewings elongate, costa 
moderately arched, apex round-pointed, termen rounded, rather strongly 
oblique ; ochreous-white ; cilia concolorous. Hind wings grey ; cilia 
ochreous-white. 
Woodbush Village (Swierstra) ; in December, one specimen. Type 
in Transvaal Museum. 
Ethmiadae. 
Ethmia coscineutis, n. sp. 
<J$. 30 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax ochreous-white, thorax with 
two dorsal black dots near anterior edge, two near posterior, and two on 
shoulders. Abdomen dark fuscous, anal segment and margins of penul- 
timate ochreous-yellow, margins of other segments whitish, ventral surface 
ochreous- whitish. Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex 
obtuse, termen nearly straight, rather oblique ; ochreous-white ; costal 
edge finely black towards base ; two black dots near base, three in a trans- 
verse series at J, one towards costa at f, one below fold before middle, 
one above middle of disc, one within upper angle of cell, one just beyond 
this, one beyond lower angle of cell, one beneath costa at one towards 
dorsum above middle, and seven round apex and termen ; cilia ochreous- 
white. Hindwings ochreous-whitish tinged with grey, greyer towards costa 
posteriorly, especially in $ ; cilia white. 
Waterberg (Jutrzencka) ; Durban, Natal, in October (Leigh) ; two 
specimens. Types in Coll. Meyrick. 
Ethmia dactylia, n. sp. 
§. 22 mm. Head pale yellowish. Palpi yellow- whitish, second joint 
with a lateral blackish streak, terminal joint with some black scales. 
Thorax whitish-grey, collar whitish with anterior edge blackish, patagia 
with a small blackish spot at apex. Abdomen light yellowish, towards 
middle suffused with grey, ventral surface light grey. Forewings elongate, 
costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded ; whitish- 
grey; five black dots edged with whitish, viz., one beneath costa near base, 
one on fold at J, one in disc at § , one on fold beneath middle, and one in 
disc at f , this last largest ; a series of ten black dots round apical portion 
of costa and termen ; cilia pale grey sprinkled with whitish points. 
