Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
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Tar. Palpi 1J, ascending, appressed to face, white, with dark fuscous 
lateral line. Thorax white, posteriorly faintly ochreous-tinged. Abdomen 
white, with faint whitish-ochreous dorsal line, sometimes marked with 
several fuscous dots. Forewings cleft from |1, segments acute, first moderate, 
second rather narrower ; white, veins on costal half suffused with pale 
brownish ; a blackish subdorsal streak towards base, dorsum beneath this 
suffused with pale brownish ; a pale brownish very oblique streak running 
from dorsum before middle to costa beyond cleft, passing close before 
cleft, irregularly irrorated with dark fuscous, and marked with a blackish 
dash in disc, a blackish spot beneath costa, and a blackish elongate mark 
on costa ; a dark fuscous patch occupying nearly apical half of second 
segment except apical part of upper margin ; black dots on extremities 
of veins 3, 7, 9, 10, 11; cilia whitish, on costa dark fuscous on blackish 
mark and brownish towards middle of first segment, and with fuscous 
patches towards apex of first segment beneath and of second segment 
on both margins, on basal portion of cleft, and beneath basal portion of 
second segment. Hindwings grey, with dark fuscous dots at apex of 
segments ; cilia light grey. 
Barberton and Three Sisters (Janse) ; in December and March, two 
specimens. Also one in South African Museum from Mfongosi, Zululand, 
in May (W. E. Jones). 
Orneodidae. 
Orneodes acalyptra, n. sp. 
S ?• 14-15 mm. Head and thorax blackish sprinkled or mixed 
with white, thorax with a white postmedian bar. Palpi very long, por- 
rected, second joint long, densely scaled, blackish irrorated with whitish, 
terminal joints 4 of second, stout, pointed, black, base and apex white. 
Abdomen blackish irrorated with whitish, segmental margins white, basal 
segment with a semicircular white streak. Forewings grey closely irrorated 
with black ; three white dots on basal third of costa, and five semioval 
white spots on posterior f , enclosing dark costal dots ; segments 2-6 crossed 
between \ and apex by four series of fine white marks, last series limiting 
small black apical spots ; cilia dark grey, on white marks with outwardly 
oblique fine whitish bars, at apex with black antemedian line edged with 
whitish on each side. Hindwings throughout as segments 2-6 of fore- 
wings, but first series of white marks broader, cilia between segments 1-4 
pale greyish from base to second series of marks. 
Barberton (Janse) ; in January, two specimens. 
Microschismus premnias, n. sp. 
cT 9- 16-17 mm. Head and thorax brownish-ochreous mixed with 
white and sprinkled with fuscous. Palpi 8, brownish-ochreous sprinkled 
with dark fuscous and whitish. Antennae in £ flatly dentate, evenly 
ciliated (1). Abdomen fuscous, segmental margins whitish. Forewings 
brownish-ochreous irrorated with dark fuscous ; costa dotted with white ; 
a fascia of dark fuscous suffusion crossing wing beyond middle parallel to 
termen, edged outwardly by a cloudy whitish line ; four series of white 
marks crossing wing between this and termen, first curved, others nearly 
straight ; cilia brownish-ochreous irrorated with dark fuscous, with 
