Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
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Tinea tephrinitis, n. sp. 
cJ. 12 mm., 16 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark purplish- 
fuscous. Antennae and abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa 
moderately arched, apex round-pointed, termen extremely obliquely 
rounded ; in A greyish-ochreous strigulated with dark purplish-fuscous, 
in 9 purplish-grey irrorated with blackish ; a suffused blackish spot in 
disc at -f ; margins of posterior half of wing spotted with blackish, in 9 
indistinctly ; cilia in $ greyish-ochreous, in $ grey. Hindwings grey, 
with brassy reflections ; cilia pale grey. 
Woodbush Village (Swierstra) ; in December, two specimens. Type 
in Coll. Meyrick; co-type in Transvaal Museum. 
Tinea encausta, n. sp. 
9- 12 mm. Head fulvous, face brown. Palpi dark fuscous. 
Antennae grey- whitish spotted with dark fuscous. Thorax light purplish- 
grey, anteriorly suffused with grey- whitish. Abdomen dark grey, anal 
segment ochreous-yellowish. Posterior tibiae with dense long hairs beneath 
on posterior half. Fore wings elongate, rather narrow, costa moderately 
arched, apex pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; purplish irrorated 
with blackish ; cilia fuscous tinged with ochreous, sprinkled with dark 
fuscous. Hindwings with 5 and 6 stalked ; grey, with bluish reflections ; 
cilia fuscous. 
Haenertsburg (Swierstra) ; in December, one specimen. Type in 
Transvaal Museum. 
Tinea oenopis Meyr. 
Woodbush Village, in December (Swierstra). 
Tinea homestia Meyr. 
Haenertsburg, in December (Swierstra). 
Tinea tanystis Meyr. 
Woodbush Village and Haenertsburg, in December (Swierstra). 
Tinea adamasta Meyr. 
Woodbush Village, in December (Swierstra). 
Tinea othello Meyr. 
Shilouvane, in November (Junod). 
Melasina sleUtis Meyr. 
$. 27 mm. Head and thorax grey. Forewings more elongate than 
in (J ; grey, strigulated throughout with blackish irroration ; three small 
obscure darker spots on costa posteriorly ; cilia grey. Hindwings and 
cilia grey. 
Woodbush Village, in December (Swierstra). This sex has not been 
previously described ; the neuration of forewings is as in (J. 
Melasina effervescens , n. sp. 
<£. 25 mm. Head whitish-ochreous, slightly tinged with brownish. 
Palpi moderately long, densely scaled, whitish-ochreous sprinkled with 
fuscous. Antennal pectinations 5. Thorax whitish mixed with brownish 
and dark fuscous. Abdomen fuscous, anal tuft pale ochreous. Forewings 
elongate, moderate, costa moderately arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen 
obliquely rounded ; all veins separate ; whitish-brownish, irregularly 
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