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dorsal line and spots on shoulders. Abdomen grey-whitish. Forewings 
lanceolate, apex long-pointed, acute ; pale brownish-ochreous ; a white 
costal streak from base to § ; veins fold, and dorsum marked with white 
streaks ; cilia ochreous- whitish. Hind wings light grey or whitish-grey ; 
ochreous- whitish. 
Haenertsburg (Swierstra) ; in December, two specimens. Type in 
Transvaal Museum. 
Tineidae. 
Nepticula insulata, n. sp. 
$. 8 mm. Head ferruginous- ochreous. Antennae grey, eyecaps 
ochreous- whitish. Tongue short, distinct. Thorax pale brassy-ochreous. 
Abdomen slaty-grey. Forewings lanceolate ; iridescent pale brassy- 
ochreous, with a few scattered black specks posteriorly ; costal edge blackish 
anteriorly ; a spot of blackish irroration in disc slightly before middle ; an 
apical patch of bluish-grey and black scales ; cilia pale whitish-ochreous 
tinged with grey. Hindwings rather dark purplish-grey ; cilia greyish. 
Woodbush Village (Swierstra) ; in December, one[ specimen. Typ- 
in Transvaal Museum. This is the largest known Nepticula; coupled 
with the presence of a distinct tongue, this probably indicates that it 
is a primitive form. 
Bedellia somnulentella Zell. 
Haenertsburg, in December (Swierstra). 
Gephyristis oxystyla, n. sp. 
cJ. 9 mm. Head whitish-ochreous, frontal tuft dark fuscous. Palpi 
dark fuscous. Antennae 1, ochreous-whitish, becoming dark fuscous at 
base. Thorax whitish-ochreous, patagia blackish. Abdomen whitish. 
Forewings narrow-lanceolate, long-pointed, acute, 5 and 6 out of 7, 8 out 
of 7 near base ; dark fuscous ; a whitish-ochreous streak along dorsum 
and termen from base to apex, margined with blackish above, upper edge 
indented before and beyond tornus, slender and irregular towards apex ; 
cilia whitish-ochreous, above apex mixed with dark fuscous. Hindwings 
whitish-grey ; cilia grey- whitish. 
Moorddrift (Swierstra) ; in October, one specimen. Type in Coll. 
Meyrick. 
Stemagoris, n. g. 
Head densely rough-haired ; ocelli present ; tongue obsolete. 
Antennae almost 1, in simple, basal joint short, without pecten. Labial 
palpi moderate, porrected, second joint with projecting lateral bristles at 
apex, terminal joint shorter than second, loosely scaled. Maxillary palpi 
moderately long, several- jointed, folded, filiform. Posterior tibiae clothed 
with long hairs above. Forewings with 2 from angle, 3 absent, 7 to costa, 
11 from before middle. Hindwings f, lanceolate, cilia 2 ; 3 absent, 4-7 
separate. 
Allied to Tinea. 
Stemagoris asylaea, n. sp. 
9 mm. Head light fulvous-ochreous. Palpi whitish-ochreous, 
base of terminal joint infuscated. Antennae, thorax, and abdomen 
