Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
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Barberton (Janse) ; in December, one specimen. 
Gelechia psimythota , n. sp. 
c£. 15 mm. Head and thorax silvery-white, shoulders narrowly 
blackish. Palpi white, base blackish, terminal joint shorter than second, 
with two blackish bands. Abdomen whitish-ochreous, uncus long, clothed 
with long hairs. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, 
apex tolerably pointed (damaged), termen extremely obliquely rounded ; 
ochreous-white ; a black dot almost at base of fold ; a narrow oblique 
irregular dark fuscous fascia towards base, extended along costa to base, 
anterior edge suffused ; a semioval dark fuscous spot on costa towards 
middle ; a narrower semioval dark fuscous spot on costa about f ; second 
discal stigma transverse-linear, dark fuscous ; a tornal patch of dark 
fuscous suffusion beneath this whence a suffused dark fuscous streak runs 
along termen to apex : cilia fuscous. Hind wings whitish-grey ; cilia 
pale fuscous. 
Barberton (Janse) ; in December, one specimen. Near the European 
scalella. 
Gnorimoschema phalacrodes, n. sp. 
$ §. 13-14 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-whitish, in slightly 
sprinkled with black, shoulders blackish. Palpi ochreous-whitish, second 
joint with black basal band and subapical ring, rough anterior scales mixed 
with grey, terminal joint with two broad bands of black irroration. 
Abdomen grey, segmental margins mixed with whitish. Forewings elongate, 
narrow, widest near base, thence narrowed to acute apex ; fuscous tinged 
with grey and brownish and sprinkled with black ; basal area spotted 
with black, with an irregular ochreous-whitish patch towards costa near 
base ; stigmata rather large, irregular, black, plical slightly before first 
discal, median area of disc between stigmata and round first discal largely 
occupied by a broad patch of ochreous-whitish suffusion ; an irregular 
rather thick sinuate transverse ochreous-whitish streak about f ; several 
black dots round apical part of costa and termen : cilia grey, sprinkled 
with black and whitish on basal half. Hindwings grey, paler and semi- 
transparent anteriorly cilia light grey. 
Waterval Onder (Janse) ; in November, two specimens. 
Lecithocera craniota , n. sp. 
cJ. 13 mm. Head pale ochreous-yellowish. Palpi whitish-ochreous, 
second joint dark fuscous except apex. Antennae somewhat stout, grey 
(? under 1). Thorax dark bronzy-grey. Abdomen grey, base of segments 
pale yellowish. Posterior tibiae ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, 
rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded ; 
2 and 3 short-stalked, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa ; bronzy-grey, suffusedly 
irr orated with dark fuscous : cilia grey. Hindwings and cilia grey- whitish. 
Barberton (Janse) ; in December and January, three specimens. 
The antennae (unless possibly broken) seem to be somewhat shorter than 
forewings, but the species does not agree with any other genus, and suits 
well here. 
Lecithocera propitia, n. sp. 
c7 ?. 12-14 mm. Head whitish-ochreous. Palpi whitish, second 
joint dark fuscous except towards apex, terminal joint thickened, in £ 
