Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
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Eucosmidae. 
Eucosma spiculifera, n. sp. 
<£. 13-14 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax ochreons- whitish or pale 
greyish-ochreous, crown and thorax sometimes with a central stripe of 
dark grey suffusion. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, posteriorly 
dilated, costa gently arched, without fold, apex obtuse, termen sinuate, 
nearly vertical ; whitish-ochreous, or greyish-ochreous irrorated with 
whitish points, with scattered blackish and fuscous scales tending to form 
longitudinal lines between veins ; costa with oblique dark fuscous strigulae ; 
dorsal area more or less suffused with fuscous, with an ochreous-brown 
spot before tornus : cilia greyish-ochreous sprinkled with whitish, on upper 
part of termen more or less suffused with blackish. Hindwings with 3 and 
4 stalked ; grey, thinly scaled, with bright violet-blue reflections ; veins 
marked with suffused black streaks ; cilia ochreous-grey- whitish, with 
indistinct grey subbasal shade. Under surface of forewings suffused with 
blackish except towards margins. 
Barberton (Janse), in January and February, two specimens ; also 
two in my own collection from Pinetown, Natal (Leigh). Conspicuous 
by the peculiar hindwings, but very possibly the $ may not share this 
character, nor the blackish suffusion of the under surface of forewings. 
Eucosma salticola, n. sp. 
$ ?. 10-12 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-grey, brownish-ochreous, 
greyish-ochreous, or pale yellow-ochreous, face usually more whitish. 
Palpi whitish, with two or three spots of grey suffusion. Abdomen grey. 
Forewings elongate, posteriorly slightly dilated, costa gently arched, 
without fold, apex obtuse, termen faintly sinuate, rather oblique ; bronzy- 
grey ; posterior § of costa dark fuscous obliquely strigulated with white ; 
two approximated thick purplish-leaden striae from costa before middle 
to middle of dorsum, acutely angulated in middle ; beyond these an oblique 
blackish streak from costa to disc ; an oblique purplish-leaden striga from 
costa beyond middle, meeting in disc an erect leaden-metallic streak from 
tornus limiting ocellus anteriorly ; ocellus narrow, sometimes mixed with 
whitish-ochreous, edged posteriorly with silvery-metallic, and including 
three interrupted or broken fine black lines ; sometimes (in two specimens) 
a narrow clear white slightly curved longitudinal streak from base through 
disc to middle of anterior margin of ocellus, or (in two $$) a broader yellow- 
ochreous streak similarly placed, in one of the latter there is a sharply 
marked sub triangular ochreous- white median dorsal blotch : cilia grey 
irrorated with white, with a blackish basal line. Hindwings with 3 and 4 
connate ; grey, thinly scaled in disc and towards base ; veins, termen, 
and apical area suffused with dark grey ; cilia whitish-grey, with grey 
basal line. 
Barberton, Three Sisters, Waterval Onder (Janse) ; from November 
to March, twelve specimens. The variability is remarkable, and the 
longitudinal pale streaks are a singular form of variation, but 1 have no 
doubt of the specific identity of the various forms. 
Eucosma calculosa, n. sp. 
<$ ?. 8-11 mm. Head ochreous-whitish or pale greyish-ochreous. 
Palpi shortly rough-scaled, ochreous-whitish, indistinctly spotted with 
