Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
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Tineidae. 
Pilotocoma , n. g. 
Head with appressed hairs ; ocelli absent ; tongue absent. Antennae 
f, in £ simple, basal joint moderate, with dense anterior pecten of scales. 
Labial palpi short, filiform, porrected, terminal joint longer than second, 
pointed. Maxillary palpi obsolete. Posterior tibiae clothed with long 
hairs above. Forewings with 16 simple, 2 from angle, 3-5 absent, 6 and 7 
stalked, 8 absent, 9 approximated to 7, 11 from middle (quite as in Bedellia). 
Hindwings J, narrow-lanceolate, cilia 4 ; transverse vein absent between 
2 and 5, 3 absent, 4 absent. 
Allied to Bedellia. 
Pilotocoma tephroleuca, n. sp. 
$ ?. 10-13 mm. Head and palpi whitish-grey, collar white. 
Antennae light grey. Thorax white, anteriorly tinged with grey. Abdomen 
grey- whitish. Forewings elongate-lanceolate, apex long-pointed, acute ; 
ochreous- white : cilia ochreous-white. Hindwings pale grey ; cilia ochreous- 
whitish. 
Barberton, Waterval Onder, Donkerhoek (Janse) ; from October to 
December, eleven specimens. 
Demobrotis tricarpa, n. sp. 
c£. 7-8 mm. Head ochreous-whitish. Palpi dark fuscous. Thorax 
ochreous- whitish, patagia blackish. Abdomen pale grey. Forewings 
elongate-lanceolate ; 2 from angle, 3 parallel, 4 absent, 5 and 6 out of 7, 
7 to costa, 8-10 separate, parallel, 11 from before middle ; light grey or 
whitish-grey, irrorated with blackish in disc, costa and dorsum suffused 
with ochreous-whitish ; three narrow oblique black marks from costa on 
anterior half ; a short black subdorsal streak from base, and a suffused 
black streak along fold from base to J- of wing ; a suffused black elongate 
mark in disc before middle ; a round ochreous-yellow subdorsal spot 
beneath middle of wing, edged beneath with black, forming a small black 
scale-projection on margin ; a black spot on costa beyond middle, whence 
an oblique fascia of blackish irroration runs to tornus, including below 
middle a black longitudinal mark and ochreous-yellow spots above and 
below this ; three small black spots on costa posteriorly : cilia grey- whitish, 
with two blackish lines. Hindwings with 4 absent, 5 and 6 stalked from 
point with 7 ; light grey ; cilia ochreous-whitish. 
Barberton (Janse) ; from December to February, four specimens. 
Dicanica, n. g. 
Head rough-haired ; ocelli present ; tongue absent. Antennae J, 
basal joint moderate, with pecten. Labial palpi moderately long, porrected, 
slender, with appressed scales, second joint with several projecting lateral 
bristles, terminal joint as long as second, hardly pointed. Maxillary palpi 
several- jointed, folded, filiform. Posterior tibiae clothed with long hairs 
above. Forewings with 2 from angle, 4 absent, 7 to costa, 11 from before 
middle. Hindwings f , lanceolate, cilia 2 ; 2-4 remote, 5 and 6 stalked, 
7 parallel. 
Allied to Tinea. 
Dicanica acrocentra, n. sp. 
12 mm. Head white, face and palpi fuscous. Thorax fuscous, 
