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sub terminal stria to tornus : cilia ochreous tinged with reddish, with a 
darker reddish basal line spotted with leaden-metallic, on tornus with 
dark leaden-grey patch. Hindwings rather dark fuscous ; cilia fuscous, 
with darker subbasal line. 
Barberton (Janse) ; in December and January, three specimens. 
Gelechiadae. 
Paltodora semnochroa, n. sp. 
A ?• 22-25 mm. Head and thorax dark fuscous mixed with whitish. 
Palpi with second joint dark fuscous, scales roughly expanded above and 
forming a long broad tuft beneath, apical edge sprinkled with whitish, 
terminal joint whitish, anteriorly irrorated with blackish. Abdomen dark 
fuscous, segmental margins mixed with whitish. Forewings elongate, 
narrow, costa slightly arched, apex produced, acute, termen sinuate, 
extremely oblique ; deep brown ; margins and veins marked with slender 
streaks of dark fuscous suffusion mixed with whitish ; cilia fuscous, towards 
base mixed with dark fuscous and whitish. Hindwings grey ; cilia light 
fuscous. 
Three Sisters (Janse) ; in February and March, two specimens. 
Paltodora pammacha, n. sp. 
A- 19-21 mm. Head greyish- white. Palpi with second joint dark 
fuscous, with long projecting tuft beneath, apical edge white, terminal 
joint white, anterior edge blackish. Thorax grey mixed with white, 
anteriorly broadly suffused with blackish. Abdomen grey. Forewings 
elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex acute, produced, termen 
somewhat sinuate, extremely oblique ; grey, more or less sprinkled or 
suffused with whitish ; costa darker, towards base suffused with blackish ; 
two small black dots beneath costa at ^ and J ; a slender black streak 
from base along fold, terminated by plical stigma, which is obliquely before 
first discal ; discal stigmata black, first elongate, second dot-like, placed 
in a pale yellow-ochreous streak running from first to a blackish streak 
which extends from apex along upper part of termen ; cilia light grey 
suffused with whitish- ochreous, towards base mixed with whitish and dark 
grey, beneath apex with blackish-grey antemedian shade. Hindwings 
grey or dark grey ; cilia grey, tinged with whitish- ochreous. 
Barberton (Janse) ; in December, two specimens. 
Paltodora illuminata, n. sp. 
$ $. 18-21 mm. Head and thorax pale ochreous, shoulders irrorated 
with fuscous. Palpi with second joint ochreous-brown irrorated with 
dark fuscous, with very long triangular ochreous-brown projecting tuft, 
apical edge and terminal joint whitish. Abdomen whitish- ochreous. 
Forewings elongate-lanceolate, acute ; light brownish-ochreous, all veins 
marked with pale greyish-ochreous streaks irrorated with dark fuscous ; 
dark fuscous dots between these streaks beneath costa at ^ and J, one 
on fold between these, and three representing stigmata, plical very obliquely 
before first discal : cilia whitish-ochreous, towards base sprinkled with 
dark fuscous. Hindwings pale ochreous-grey ; cilia clear pale ochreous. 
Barberton, Three Sisters (Janse) ; from January to March, three 
specimens. Distinguished from operosa by the clear ochreous cilia of 
hindwings. 
