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Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
10 bristles ; 3 and 4 remote but slightly approximated at origin, 5-7 parallel, 
transverse vein between 3 and 4 outwardly oblique, between 4 and 5 strongly 
oblique inwards, between 5 and 6 absent but cell-wall formed by acute 
fork of median parting- vein, between 6 and 7 normal, slightly oblique 
inwards. 
A singular form allied to Exaulistis. 
Parazelota dryotoma, n. sp. 
40 mm. Head and palpi pale brownish, somewhat sprinkled with 
dark fuscous. Thorax pale ochreous, shoulders brownish, crest mixed 
with blackish (damaged). Abdomen pale yellow- ochreous, somewhat 
sprinkled with brownish. Forewings elongate, moderately broad, costa 
strongly arched, apex obtuse, termen rounded, oblique ; light brown, 
sprinkled with dark fuscous ; basal area more mixed with dark fuscous ; 
an oblique streak of dark fuscous suffusion from costa beyond J, reaching 
about half across wing ; an undefined triangular patch of dark fuscous 
suffusion on middle of costa ; extremities of veins streaked with dark 
fuscous : cilia pale ochreous, basal half obscurely barred with fuscous, with 
a darker fuscous cloudy median line. Hindwings pale fuscous, basal 
pectinations pale greyish-ochreous ; cilia whitish- ochreous, with two faint 
fuscous shades. 
Three Sisters (Janse) ; in March, one specimen. 
Exanthica, n. g. 
Head with dense tolerably appressed scales, side tufts rather rough, 
face with conical projection of scales ; ocelli small ; tongue absent. 
Antennae f, in serrate, shortly ciliated, basal joint very short. Labial 
palpi long, subascending, second joint long, thickened with dense rough 
projecting scales above and beneath, terminal joint short, stout, obtuse. 
Maxillary palpi rudimentary. Thorax with posterior oblique crest. Pos- 
terior tibiae long, roughly haired above, more strongly on basal half. 
Forewings with 2 from angle, 3-5 approximated at base, 8 to termen, 11 
from | of cell. Hindwings 1, ovate, cilia \ ; 3 and 4 approximated at 
base, 5-7 nearly parallel, 5 and 6 slightly approximated basally. 
Type E. trigonella Feld. A remarkable form which, however, cannot 
be assigned to any other existing family than this. 
Exanthica trigonella Feld., Reis, Novar. pi. CXXXIX, 39. 
cL 18-20 mm. Forewings elongate-triangular, fuscous, posterior 
half irrorated with white, less so on a triangular dorsal patch before tornus ; 
basal half darker, limited by a white median streak parallel to termen, 
edged anteriorly with blackish-fuscous, not reaching costa ; a sharply 
defined triangular blackish-fuscous spot occupying upper half of termen, 
edged with white. Hindwings light fuscous. 
Woodbush Village, Barberton (Swierstra, Janse) ; in December and 
January. 
Epiphractis ruhricata, n. sp. 
$ $. 13-19 mm. Head and thorax dark purplish-fuscous closely 
irrorated with white, thorax sometimes tinged with yellowish. Palpi white 
irrorated with dark fuscous. Abdomen grey, anal tuft whitish-ochreous. 
Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse-pointed, termen 
