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Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
Opostega amphimitra, n. sp. 
<?.' 8-9 mm. Head and thorax white. Antennae pale grey, eyecaps 
white. Abdomen grey. Forewings lanceolate, acute ; white ; two rather 
dark bronzy-fnscons slender transverse fasciae, first at |, straight, second 
at f, rather curved or bent, sometimes becoming faint towards dorsum ; 
a minute black apical dot : cilia ochreous- whitish, round apex with a 
fuscous subbasal line. Hindwings and cilia light grey. 
Barberton (Janse) ; from December to February, four specimens. 
Cycloponympha, n. g. 
Head thinly rough-haired ; ocelli absent ; tongue short. Antennae 
f, sometimes compressed, basal joint moderate, somewhat flattened, 
loosely haired anteriorly. Labial palpi moderate, porrected, loosely 
scaled, second joint with several long projecting bristles beneath and 
laterally, terminal joint as long as second, pointed. Maxillary palpi very 
short, loosely scaled. Posterior tibiae clothed with long fine hairs above. 
Forewings with subhyaline oval fovea in end of cell, apex upturned ; 2 
and 4 connate from angle, 3 absent, 5 and 6 out of 7, 7 to costa, 8 out of 
7 or absent, 10 and 11 approximated from upper margin of fovea, 11 short. 
Hindwings §, lanceolate, cilia 2 ; 4 absent, transverse vein absent between 
3 and 5, 5 and 6 stalked, 6 to costa, 7 approximated. 
Type C. julia. 
Cycloponympha julia , n. sp. 
?. 11 mm. Head, antennae, thorax, and abdomen white. Palpi 
grey, terminal joint white. Forewings elongate-lanceolate, apex produced, 
acute ; silvery- white ; costal edge blackish towards base ; a pale yellow- 
ochreous suffused subcostal streak towards base ; a black dot on fold 
at \ ; a short oblique pale ochreous streak from costa beyond middle ; 
a small blackish wedge-shaped mark on dorsum at f ; an irregular pale 
ochreous streak along costa towards apex ; a black apical dot, surrounded 
with pale ochreous suffusion in cilia and anteriorly : cilia otherwise white, 
with dark grey median line round apex. Hindwings pale grey ; cilia 
ochreous- whitish. 
Barberton (Janse) ; in December, one specimen. 
Cycloponympha perspicua, n. sp. 
cJ. 13 mm. Head and antennae snow-white. Palpi pale ochreous. 
Thorax light brownish-ochreous, patagia posteriorly white. Abdomen 
pale whitish- ochreous. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, 
apex pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded ; light brownish- 
ochreous, on posterior half of wing mixed with paler and irrorated with 
dark fuscous ; a wedge-shaped white streak running from base of dorsum 
to above middle of disc, dorsal area beneath this suffused with whitish- 
ochreous ; discal fovea grey- whitish ; short oblique opposite whitish 
streaks from costa and dorsum in middle of wing ; a round black apical 
dot : cilia whitish- ochreous sprinkled with dark fuscous on basal half, 
outer half brownish-tinged, tips whitish. Hindwings grey ; cilia pale 
whitish- ochreous. 
Barberton (Janse) ; in January, one specimen. 
