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Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
cell ; cilia pale whitish-yellowish, base faintly orange-tinged. Hindwings 
with 3 and 4 connate, 6 and 7 long-stalked ; orange, deeper towards apex ; 
cilia yellowish- orange. 
Shilouvane (Jnnod) ; in November, one specimen. Type in Trans- 
vaal Mus um. 
Epermenia praejumata Meyr. 
Woodbush Village, in December (Swierstra). 
Platybathra n. g. 
Head smooth-scaled ; ocelli absent ; tongue developed. Antennae 
nearly 1, in $ shortly ciliated, basal joint elongate, flattened and slightly 
concave beneath, with pecten of scales. Labial palpi moderate, curved, 
ascending, slender, smooth-scaled, terminal joint as long as second, acute. 
Maxillary palpi rudimentary. Posterior tibiae rough-haired above. Fore- 
wings with 3 absent, 4 absent, 6 and 7 stalked, 7 to costa, 8 absent, 11 from 
beyond middle. Hindwings J, narrow-lanceolate ; cilia 5 ; 4 absent, 
6 and 7 approximated towards base. 
Apparently allied to Coleophora and Batrachedra. 
Platybathra ganota, n. sp. 
15 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax pale ochreous. Antennae dark 
grey, basal joint pale ochreous. Abdomen whitish- ochreous. Forewings 
elongate-lanceolate, acute ; pale glossy ochreous ; basal third of costa 
suffused with blackish ; cilia pale ochreous. Hindwings grey ; cilia pale 
ochreous. 
Woodbush Village (Swierstra) ; in December, two specimens. Type 
in Coll. Meyrick. 
Coleophora leucaula, n. sp. 
$. 13 mm. Head and thorax white. Palpi whitish. Antennae white, 
ringed with fuscous, basal joint white, rough-scaled anteriorly. Forewings 
elongate-lanceolate, acute; brownish-ocherous, becoming brownish pos- 
teriorly ; a slender white costal streak from base to f ; cilia pale brownish- 
ochreous. Hindwings grey ; cilia pale grey. 
Woodbush Village (Swierstra) ; in December, one specimen. Type in 
Transvaal Museum. Approaches the European Limosipennella, but fore- 
wings rather broader, and white costal streak extended further posteriorly. 
Coleophora efflua, n. sp. 
13 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax white. Antennae whitish, basal 
joint white, with long rough projecting scales on anterior edge. Abdomen 
grey, suffused with ochreous-yellowish towards apex, anal tuft whitish- 
ochreous. Forewings lanceolate ; pale ochreous-yellowish ; a suffused white 
costal streak from base to § ; dorsal half, through the confluence of longi- 
tudinal streaks, almost wholly suffused with white from base to apex ; 
cilia pale whitish-ochreous. Hindwings grey; cilia pale whitish-ochreous. 
Woodbush Village (Swierstra) ; in December, one specimen. Type 
in Coll. Meyrick. 
Coleophora scariphota, n. sp. 
10 mm. Head whitish-brownish, sides of crown white. Palpi 
white. Antennae white ringed with fuscous. Thorax white with brownish 
