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Barberton, Three Sisters, Pretoria (Janse) ; in November, December, 
and March, six specimens. 
Nepticula ingens, n. sp. 
$. 9-10 mm. Head fulvous, sides sometimes suffused with 
ochreous- whitish. Antennae grey-whitish, eyecaps ochreous-whitish. 
Thorax and abdomen whitish- ochreous. Forewings lanceolate ; whitish- 
ochreous : cilia concolorous. Hindwings and cilia ochreous-whitish. 
Donkerhoek (Janse) ; in October, three specimens. This species is 
of abnormal size for the genus, and very interesting. I have carefully 
examined the neuration, which is entirely typical. 
Erechthiadae. 
Opostega granifera, n. sp. 
$. 7 mm. Head and thorax white. Antennae ochreous-whitish, 
eyecaps white. . Abdomen whitish- ochreous. Forewings elongate-lanceo- 
late ; silvery- white, with a faint ochreous tinge ; a minute black speck 
at apex : cilia white. Hindwings whitish-grey ; cilia white. 
Barberton (Janse) ; in December, one specimen. 
Opostega praefusca, n. sp. 
$ $. 7-9 mm. Head and thorax white. Antennae in $ whitish- 
ochreous, in $ greyish, eyecaps white. Abdomen grey. Forewings lanceo- 
late, apex acute ; shining white ; apex suffused with fuscous or dark 
fuscous ; a minute black apical dot : cilia white, on costa with dark fuscous 
basal and antemedian lines. Hindwings and cilia grey. 
Barberton (Janse) ; in December and January, two specimens. 
Opostega radio sa, n. sp. 
10-11 mm. Head and thorax white. Antennae ochreous-whitish, 
eyecaps white. Abdomen whitish- ochreous. Forewings elongate- 
lanceolate, apex produced, acute ; shining white ; apex suffused with 
yellow-ochreous, produced along both margins to f ; a round black apical 
dot : cilia white, towards tornus whitish-yellowish, at f of costa with a 
fuscous basal dash, before apex with two upwards-diverging blackish lines, 
at apex with two diverging blackish hooks, beneath apex with a blackish 
antemedian line. Hindwings ochreous-whitish ; cilia whitish- ochreous. 
Barberton, Three Sisters (Janse) ; in December and March, two 
specimens. 
Opostega clastozona, n. sp. 
<£. 10-11 mm. Head, antennae, and thorax white, shoulders slenderly 
dark fuscous. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Forewings short-lanceolate ; 
white ; edge of costa dark fuscous at base ; a slender somewhat curved 
bronzy-fuscous or dark fuscous transverse fascia slightly beyond middle, 
more or less interrupted in disc ; apex narrowly suffused with yellowish 
or brownish : cilia pale whitish-yellowish, above and below apex with 
subbasal dark fuscous lines forming an obtuse angle, but not quite meeting, 
Hindwings grey-whitish ; cilia whitish-yellowish, 
Barberton (Janse) ; in December and January, four specimens. 
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