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blackish ; ocellus narrow, enclosed by bluish-leaden-metallic or silvery- 
iridescent irregular streaks, anterior extended to costa, and a similar 
streak runs from costa beyond this to termen above middle ; apical area 
usually more or less tinged or suffused with ferruginous, with two blue- 
leaden dots on costa before apex and one beneath apex : cilia dark bluish- 
grey, with blackish subbasal line. Hindwings rather dark fuscous ; cilia 
pale bluish-fuscous, with fuscous subbasal shade. 
Barberton, Three Sisters (Miss Williams, Janse) ; from September to 
March, seven specimens. Very variable, no two being alike, owing to 
difference of colour and development of dark suffusion. 
Argyroploce nucleata, n. sp. 
$. 14 mm. Head and thorax white-brownish, thoracic crest and a 
transverse median bar reddish-brown. Palpi porrected, white-brownish 
sprinkled with reddish fuscous. Abdomen grey, segmental margins mixed 
with whitish. Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa gently arched, 
apex obtuse, termen straight, rather oblique ; whitish- ochreous with 
silvery iridescence, strigulated with deep brown-reddish suffused with 
ochreous-brown, with a few scattered black scales, dorsum strigulated 
with black ; a triangular brownish blotch mixed with reddish on middle 
of costa, reaching half across wing, marked on costa with two triangular 
red-brown spots, its apex with some black scales and followed in disc by 
a whitish spot, beneath which are also some black scales ; two small 
triangular red-brown spots on costa posteriorly ; a triangular red-brown 
blotch mixed with black resting on upper § of termen : cilia brownish 
somewhat sprinkled with whitish, basal third reddish-brown, outer f 
indistinctly barred with blackish, on tornus suffused with whitish. Hind- 
wings with 3 and 4 connate ; grey, darker towards apex and termen ; 
cilia grey-whitish, with grey subbasal line. 
Three Sisters (Janse) ; in March, one specimen. 
Laspeyresia leptogramma, n. sp. 
<3 $. 9-10 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-whitish tinged with 
brownish, face and palpi white. Abdomen grey, apex ochreous-whitish. 
Forewings elongate, posteriorly slightly dilated, costa gently arched, apex 
obtuse, termen sinuate, little oblique ; fuscous ; basal third suffused 
with ochreous-whitish ; rest of costa with seven pairs of oblique whitish 
strigulae, irrorated with dark fuscous between these, costal third beneath 
these suffused with light ochreous, first two pairs extended J across wing, 
third giving rise to a blue-leaden-metallic stria obtusely angulated above 
middle and running to tornus, indented or interrupted below middle ; 
three longitudinal ochreous-white striae in median area of disc, and four 
very oblique parallel ochreous-white striae from median third of dorsum, 
all terminated by the postmedian stria, praetornal area also striated 
longitudinally with ochreous-whitish ; ocellus narrow, reaching f across 
wing, grey irrorated with whitish, marked with six short black lines, mar- 
gined anteriorly with ochreous, posteriorly by a silvery-metallic streak, 
and above by a blue-leaden-metallic stria running from fifth pair of costal 
strigulae to termen beneath apex : cilia grey-whitish, basal area irrorated 
with dark grey. Hindwings rather dark grey ; cilia whitish, with grey 
subbasal shade. 
