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line. Abdomen brownisli-ochreous mixed with white, with a fine 
dark fuscous line on each side of back. Forewings cleft from §, 
segments moderate, pointed ; rather light reddish fuscous, sprinkled 
with darker towards apex of segments ; costa rather broadly suffused 
with white from about to f ; some white irroration towards apex 
of first segment ; a narrow white subdorsal streak from J of wing 
to base of second segment, thence continued along upper margin of 
second segment to its tip ; cilia pale red-brownish, on dorsum 
ochreous-wliitish anteriorly to cleft. Hindwings cleft firstly from 2/5, 
secondly from 1/5, segments narrow; rather dark grey; cilia rosy- 
grey-whitish. 
Bultfontein, N.E. Pretoria District, in January; one specimen. 
Pterqphortts crepuscularis, ii. sp. (Plate II, fig. 2). 
Male, 21 mm. Head and thorax whitish irrorated with 
fuscous. Palpi moderate, whitish, with lateral line of fuscous 
irroration. Abdomen ochreous-whitish irrorated with fuscous, 
streaked on sides with dark fuscous. Forewings cleft from J, 
segments pointed, first moderately broad, second narrower ; grey, 
towards base with a few black specks ; a dot of black irroration in 
disk at | , and a patch of darker suffusion sprinkled with black 
before cleft ; cilia light fuscous, base whitish, on dorsum with six 
groups of two or three blackish scales each. Hindwings cleft firstly 
from f, secondly from J, segments narrow; rather dark grey; cilia 
grey towards base of dorsum with several scattered hair-scales with 
black points. 
Warmberg, Zoutpansberg District, in December; one specimen. 
Stenoptilia zophodactyla Dup. 
Pretoria, in March; one specimen. 
Agdistis malitiosa, n. sp. (Plate II, fig. 3). 
Male, female, 25-27 mm. Head and thorax fuscous irrorated 
with whitish, forehead with very short cone. Palpi rather short, 
rough-scaled, fuscous mixed with white and dark fuscous. Abdomen 
fuscous suffused with wdiitish and sprinkled with black. Forewings 
with apex somewhat pointed, termen faintly sinuate beneath apex, 
rather strongly oblique; fuscous, irrorated with dark fuscous, slightly 
sprinkled with whitish on costal and dorsal areas ; a small suffused 
dark fuscous spot at inverted apex of triangular area, and others 
beneath its lower margin at § and midway between this and first ; 
cilia fuscous, basal half mixed alternately with whitish and dark 
fuscous. Hindwings fuscous, towards tornus mixed with whitish 
and dark fuscous ; cilia as in forewings. 
Pretoria, in February, one specimen; and five others from 
Nairobi, British East Africa, in August. 
ORNEODIDAE. 
Orneodus certifica, il. sp. (Plate II, fig. 4). 
Female, 10 mm. Head and thorax white. Palpi long, porrected, 
terminal joint minute, concealed in scales of second, white, on lower 
half tinged with fuscous and sprinkled with dark fuscous. Abdomen 
whitish. Forewings white; markings whitish fuscous, sprinkled 
