Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
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Bucculatrix inchoata, n. sp. 
<$ $. 6-7 mm. Head, antennae, and thorax white, centre of crown 
sometimes faintly ochreous-tinged. Abdomen pale greyish, in $ dorsally 
blackish, anal tuft whitish- ochreous. Forewings lanceolate ; white, here 
and there faintly tinged with ochreous : cilia white. Hindwings very 
pale greyish ; cilia ochreous-whitish. 
Pretoria (Janse) ; in November and January, two specimens. 
Bucculatrix galeodes, n. sp. 
<$. 8-9 mm. Head and thorax white, crown with a central spot of 
fuscous suffusion. Antennae dark grey. Abdomen grey. Forewings 
elongate-lanceolate ; white ; a raised black dot on fold before middle, 
one in disc at f , and one at apex : cilia white. Hind wings grey ; cilia 
whitish, towards base yellowish-tinged. 
Pretoria (Janse) ; in January, two specimens. 
Bucculatrix anticolona, n. sp. 
c£. 7 mm. Head white, with some excessively minute dark fuscous 
specks. Antennae, thorax, and abdomen white. Forewings elongate- 
lanceolate, acute ; white, with minute scattered dark fuscous specks ; 
markings brownish, coarsely irrorated with black ; a small spot on costa 
before middle ; semioval blotches on costa and dorsum beyond middle, 
costal posterior ; a small spot in disc at f ; a faint yellowish spot before 
apex : cilia white, with a few blackish specks. Hindwings whitish-grey ; 
cilia grey- whitish. 
Pretoria (Janse) ; in May, one specimen. 
Bucculatrix quieta, n. sp. 
$ $. 7-8 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-whitish, crown centrally 
suffused with ochreous-fuscous. Antennae and abdomen light grey. 
Forewings elongate (somewhat broader than in lenis ) ; ochreous-whitish, 
towards apex more ochreous-tinged ; a raised black dot on fold before 
middle ; a mark consisting of a few fuscous scales beneath costa beyond 
middle ; a minute dot of two or three black scales on termen above tornus, 
and two or three black scales at apex : cilia ochreous-whitish, with a faint 
median line of fuscous specks, at base beneath apex with two or three 
blackish scales. Hindwings light grey ; cilia ochreous-whitish. 
Pretoria (Janse) ; in December, February, and March, four specimens. 
Bucculatrix amara , n. sp. 
<$ $. 6-7 mm. Head and thorax whitish tinged with fuscous and 
sprinkled with black. Antennae whitish ringed with dark fuscous. 
Abdomen grey- whitish. Forewings elongate-lanceolate; whitish sprinkled 
throughout with black points ; anterior and posterior thirds of costa and 
anterior half of dorsum rather broadly suffused with fuscous ; a fuscous 
median streak mixed with black from base to beyond middle, thence 
running as a fine line into postmedian fascia ; a very oblique narrow 
fuscous patch from costa before middle ; a very oblique fuscous fascia 
mostly suffused with black from costa beyond middle to termen above 
tornus ; a thick longitudinal black mark at apex : cilia fuscous- whitish 
on basal half sprinkled with black, above apex much mixed with black 
towards base. Hindwings light grey ; cilia wliitish-grey. 
Barberton (Janse) ; in December, two specimens. 
