Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
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Barberton (Janse) ; in December and January, four specimens. Very 
like acarta from the Seychelles, but the hindwings in that species are 
obviously narrower and more acute, antennae in £ with scattered long 
ciliations towards base. 
Oecophoridae. 
Promalactis veridica, n. sp. 
<$. 10 mm. Head and thorax orange-yellow, forehead broadly 
shining white, sides and lower part of face grey. Palpi orange-yellow, 
terminal joint rather shorter than second, its anterior edge dark fuscous. 
Antennae white spotted with blackish, beneath dark fuscous, ciliations 
nearly 2. Abdomen pale greyish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa 
gently arched, apex pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded ; orange- 
yellow ; markings snow-white edged with black ; an almost marginal 
streak from middle of base to | of dorsum ; a slightly curved inwardly 
oblique streak from dorsum before middle, reaching § across wing, very 
finely connected on dorsum with a trapezoidal spot before tornus reaching 
nearly half across wing and containing two or three grey scales centrally ; 
a transverse spot on costa about f , reaching half across wing, somewhat 
beyond dorsal spot ; a streak along upper part of termen : cilia orange- 
yellow. Hindwings lanceolate, 3 absent ; grey ; cilia pale greyish- 
ochreous. 
Pretoria (Swierstra) ; in November, one specimen. 
Promalactis geometrica, n. sp. 
<?. 14 mm. Head and thorax golden-fulvous, forehead white. Palpi 
fulvous-orange, tip whitish. Antennae white ringed with dark fuscous, 
ciliations 2. Abdomen dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, 
costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded ; golden- 
fulvous ; markings white, irregularly edged with black scales ; a short 
slender streak along basal portion of dorsum ; a slender erect streak from 
J of dorsum, its apex bent round in disc towards base but not nearly 
reaching it ; a slender streak running from middle of dorsum to middle 
of disc and thence angulated back to dorsum before tornus ; a triangular 
spot on costa at f, rather broadly edged with blackish posteriorly, the 
blackish margin reaching half across wing : cilia fulvous-orange. Hind- 
wings f , elongate-ovate, 3 and 4 approximated at base ; dark fuscous ; 
cilia rather dark fuscous. 
Barberton (Janse) ; in December, one specimen. 
Saropla dryozona, n. sp. 
?• 11 mm. Head and thorax white sprinkled with light fuscous. 
Palpi white, second joint ochreous-brown except apex, tuft moderate, 
triangular. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, 
apex tolerably pointed, termen rounded, oblique ; white, sprinkled with 
light fuscous ; a slightly incurved ochreous-brown fascia from beyond 
middle of costa to middle of dorsum, anterior "margin edged with black 
and then with pale yellowish; indented in middle, ^posterior margin 
suffused with ochreous-yellowish ; an ochreous-brown "inwardly oblique 
spot from tornus, edged anteriorly with black and suffused posteriorly 
