Annals op the Transvaal Museum. 
Trichoptilus varius, n. sp. (Plate I, fig. 2). 
Female, 9 mm. Head and thorax whitish irrorated with 
fuscous, thorax posteriorly white. Palpi white, apex of second joint 
fuscous. Abdomen reddish-fuscous mixed with white, towards base 
suffused with white. Forewings cleft from before middle, segments 
linear ; light reddish fuscous sprinkled with darker, somewhat 
whitish-tinged anteriorly; a blackish dot in disk at J, and one above 
cleft ; a broad band of white suffusion on first segment at J, and a 
narrow one at |, first continued less broadly on second segment; 
cilia greyish, with irregularly scattered black scales, with patches 
of white suffusion on first band and towards tips of segments. Hind- 
wings grey sprinkled with dark fuscous ; cilia grey, on dorsum with 
a moderate projection of black scales at f of third segment. 
Pretoria, in January; one specimen. 
Trichoptilus maceratus, n. sp. (Plate I, fig. 3). 
Male, 12 mm. Head and thorax pale greyish-ochreous. Palpi 
greyish banded with white. Abdomen ochreous-grey mixed with 
white. Forewings cleft from before middle, segments linear;; 
ochreous grey ; minute black dots near base and in disk before | ;; 
a blackish dot above cleft ; very indistinct narrow bars of whitish 
suffusion on first segment at J and § of its length ; cilia oclireous- 
grey irregularly mixed with white scales, on lower marg'in of first 
segment with a large patch of black scales in middle and a small 
black scale-projection before apex, on upper margin of second 
segment with projecting black scales from before middle to near 
apex, on dorsum with a small projection of black and white scales 
before cleft, a moderate projection of blackish scales at J of segment 
and a small one towards apex. Hindwings cleft firstly from J, 
secondly from near base ; grey irrorated with dark fuscous ; cilia 
fuscous, on dorsum with a well-marked small triangular black scale- 
projection beyond middle, and one or two black scales before apex. 
N.E. Pretoria District (Rietfontein No. 54), in September; one 
specimen. 
Platyptilia molopias Meyr. 
N.E. Pretoria District, in January; also Camperdown and 
Howick, Natal, in March and April (Leigh); and Nairobi, British 
East Africa, in August. African specimens are sometimes rather 
large, ranging up to 22 mm., but otherwise not different from 
Indian and Ceylon examples. 
Platyptilia sabia Feld (Plate II, fig. 1). 
(Mimeseoptilus sabius Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. CXL, 60.) 
Male, 28 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, frontal tuft moderate.. 
Palpi long, fuscous, above white. Thorax whitish-ochreous.. 
Abdomen whitish-ochreous, with dark fuscous lateral stripe. Fore- 
wings cleft from before f, segments broad, first acutely pointed,, 
second with termen slightly sinuate, rather strongly oblique ; light 
brown ; a streak of darker suffusion along costa, containing a slender 
streak of blackish irroration with a few whitish scales from base to 
beyond middle ; a few black specks placed longitudinally in disk 
at £; a black diskal dot near before cleft; cilia pale-brownish, on 
termen with an interrupted blackish antemedian shade, round base 4 
