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on costa and a subapical patch white. Hindwings with 4 and 5 separate ; 
dark grey, thinly scaled towards base ; cilia grey. 
Pretoria, Barberton (Janse) ; in January and March, two specimens. 
Scythris latebrosa, n. sp. 
$. 10-11 mm. Head and thorax dark greyish-bronze, back of crown 
sprinkled with whitish. Palpi white, more or less suffused with dark 
fuscous anteriorly. Abdomen dark grey, ventral surface ochreous-white. 
Forewings elongate-lanceolate ; dark greyish-bronze ; submedian fold 
irregularly strewn with obscure grey- whitish scales, with indistinct small 
cloudy dark fuscous spots before middle of wing and midway between this 
and base : cilia rather dark fuscous. Hindwings with 4 and 5 separate ; 
dark fuscous ; cilia dark fuscous. 
Barberton, Three Sisters (Janse) ; in January and March, two speci- 
mens. 
Blastobasidae. 
Blastobasis byrsodepta, n. sp. 
(J J. 13-15 mm. Head whitish-ochreous irrorated with fuscous. 
Palpi whitish-ochreous irrorated with dark fuscous and blackish, terminal 
joint in § of second, more thickened and curved than in acute, in $ 
nearly as long as second. Antennnae in S very shortly ciliated, without 
notch. Thorax fuscous, suffused with dark fuscous anteriorly. Abdomen 
grey. Forewings elongate-lanceolate, acute ; fuscous, irrorated with pale 
greyish-ochreous and irregularly sprinkled with dark fuscous ; a rather 
oblique subtriangular patch of dark fuscous suffusion from dorsum before 
middle of wing, reaching more than half across wing, and a small undefined 
spot of dark fuscous suffusion on costa before middle ; second discal stigma 
and a dot beneath it above tornus cloudy dark fuscous ; an undefined 
spot of dark fuscous suffusion towards apex: cilia fuscous, torwads base 
sprinkled with pale greyish-ochreous. Hindwings grey ; cilia light fuscous. 
Waterval Onder, Barberton (Janse) ; in November and December, 
four specimens. Also one in my collection from Pinetown, Natal, in 
January (Leigh). 
Blastobasis industria, n. sp. 
<$ $. • 16-21 mm. Head whitish-ochreous, sometimes sprinkled with 
light grey. Palpi ochreous-whitish, variably sprinkled or irrorated with 
dark fuscous, terminal joint about § of second, acute. Antennae in $ 
moderately ciliated, with notch above basal joint. Thorax fuscous irrorated 
with whitish-ochreous, anteriorly suffused with dark fuscous. Abdomen 
pale grey, base of segments dark red-brown. Forewings elongate-lanceolate, 
obtuse-pointed ; fuscous irrorated with whitish-ochreous and sprinkled 
with dark fuscous ; a spot of dark fuscous suffusion on base of costa ; a 
somewhat curved fascia of dark fuscous suffusion before middle, inter- 
rupted in middle, extremity of upper portion formed by dark fuscous first 
discal stigma ; second discal stigma dark fuscous, and a similar dot above 
tornus beneath it ; some undefined dots of dark fuscous suffusion on 
margins towards apex : cilia pale fuscous, irrorated with whitish-ochreous. 
Hindwings light fuscous ; cilia pale greyish-ochreous. 
