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Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, 
termen sinuate, oblique ; fuscous sprinkled with dark fuscous ; costa 
irregularly marked with small whitish spots, three before middle sub- 
confluent into a blotch ; a whitish stria from dorsum at J, reaching half 
across wing, an irregular spot on middle of dorsum, a dot before tornus, 
a striga from tornus reaching § across wing, and several dots on termen : 
cilia fuscous, with dark fuscous subbasal line. Hindwings and cilia grey. 
Barberton (Janse) ; in January, one specimen. 
Epistomotis amphicentra , n. sp. 
15 mm. Head white, face mixed with fuscous. Palpi white, 
second joint dark fuscous except anterior edge, tuft very long, terminal 
joint as long as second. Antennal ciliations f. Thorax fuscous mixed 
with white. Abdomen whitish. Hairs of posterior tibiae very long. 
Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen 
extremely obliquely rounded ; fuscous mixed with white, with some 
scattered black scales, all veins suflusedly streaked with white ; a round 
dot of black irroration in disc at J, and two transversely placed at § ; some 
black irroration along termen : cilia whitish, basal half irrorated with 
fuscous. Hindwings fuscous, veins darker ; cilia whitish, basal half 
fuscous- tinged. 
Pretoria (Swierstra) ; in November, one specimen. 
Nepticulidae. 
Nepticula mgrata, n. sp. 
c£. 5 mm. Head ochreous- whitish. Antennae light grey, eyecaps 
white. Thorax dark grey. Abdomen blackish-grey. Forewings elongate- 
lanceolate, acute ; dark grey, with faint purplish tinge : cilia grey. Hind- 
wings coarsely scaled, blackish ; cilia grey. 
Waterval Onder (Janse) ; in November, one specimen. 
Nepticula urbica, n. sp. 
<J. 5 mm. Head fulvous- ochreous. (Antennae broken.) Thorax 
dark purplish-grey. Abdomen grey. Forewings lanceolate ; glossy dark 
purplish-grey : cilia grey. Hindwings and cilia grey. 
Barberton (Janse) ; in January, one specimen. 
Nepticula stimulata, n. sp. 
A- 4-5 mm. Head and thorax ochreous- whitish. Antennae pale 
grey, eyecaps ochreous- whitish. Abdomen pale grey. Forewings lanceo- 
late ; whitish- ochreous, sprinkled with black ; an undefined apical group 
of black scales : cilia ochreous-whitish, with a few black points. Hind- 
wings light grey ; cilia whitish-grey. 
Barberton (Janse) ; in December, three specimens. 
Nepticula primaria, n. sp. 
pV 5-6 mm. Head fulvous- ochreous. Antennae pale grey, eye- 
caps ochreous-white. Thorax whitish- ochreous. Abdomen pale greyish. 
Forewings lanceolate ; whitish-ochreous, sprinkled with dark fuscous or 
blackish on posterior half, and more or less towards costa anteriorly^: 
cilia ochreous-whitish, round apex with, a few dark fuscous or blackish 
points. Hindwings light grey ; cilia ochreous-whitish tinged with grey. 
