Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
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Amydria verecunda, n. sp. 
<$. 16-18 mm. Head whitish-ochreous, face fuscous. Palpi dark 
fuscous somewhat sprinkled with whitish, second joint shortly rough-scaled 
beneath, with numerous lateral bristles. Antennae dark grey. Thorax 
fuscous. Abdomen light fuscous, segmental margins mixed with whitish. 
Forewings elongate, moderate, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse 
termen obliquely rounded ; pale greyish-ochreous suffused with fuscous, 
with a few scattered dark fuscous scales ; some ochreous-whitish suffusion 
along sub-median fold ; stigmata dark fuscous, discal minute, approximated, 
plical larger, midway between discal ; cilia pale greyish-ochreous sprinkled 
with dark fuscous. Hindwings fuscous ; cilia as in forewings. 
Woodbush Village and Haenertsburg (Swierstra) ; in December, two 
specimens. Typ? in Coll. Meyrick. Allied to trophias, which it resembles 
in form of wing. 
Amydria tropliias Meyr. 
Woodbush Village, in December (Swierstra). 
Scardia paracosma Meyr. 
Woodbush Village, in December (Swierstra). 
Adelidae. 
Adela electella Walk. 
Haenertsburg, in December (Swierstra) ; one $. This sex is the only 
one yet known ; any collector who meets with the species should endeavour 
to discover the since it is still dubious whether it is not the other sex of 
natalensis Stt., a larger and differently marked insect, which is only known 
in the <J sex, and occurs in similar localities. 
