Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
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fascia of ochreous suffusion ; central fascia moderate, oblique, 
ochreous, very narrow on costa, posterior margin angularly indented 
below middle ; ocellus narrow, ochreous, margined laterally by two 
silvery streaks, and containing two round black dots ; apical area 
beyond this ochreous, containing a transverse silvery mark before 
apex, margined with a few black scales ; cilia grey mixed with white, 
basal third sprinkled with black points. Hindwings with 3 and 4 
stalked; light grey; cilia grey-whitish. 
Pretoria, in October; one specimen. 
Eucosma monitrix, n. sp. (Plate III, fig. 2). 
Male, 12 mm. Head grey, collar grey- whitish, forehead black. 
Palpi white. Thorax pale ochreous, anterior third dark fuscous, 
behind middle with a grey- whitish band. Abdomen dark grey. 
Forewings elongate, rather narrow, posteriorly slightly dilated, costa 
slightly arched, without fold, apex obtuse, termen oblique, slightly 
retuse above middle ; dark fuscous, towards dorsum and posteriorly 
with tips of scales pale yellowish, forming fine striae ; basal patch 
marked by three leaden striae partially edged with whitish ; central 
fascia formed by two thick oblique blue-leaden striae rising from 
pairs of small whitish costal strigulae, becoming broader and confluent 
below middle, suddenly reduced to small spots on dorsum ; a thick 
silvery metallic erect streak from tornus reaching half across wing, 
edged anteriorly with a white line and posteriorly by an irregular 
white streak containing three or four variable black dots ; three small 
whitish costal strigulae beyond middle, central one sending a blue- 
leaden oblique striga to apex of tornal streak; three more conspicuous 
white costal strigulae about f, whence a blue-leaden striga runs to 
near termen beneath apex ; cilia grey mixed with -white, especially 
towards tornus, round apex and upper part of termen pale ochreous 
with a thick dark grey sub-basal line and tips blackish. Hindwings 
with 3 and 4 stalked ; light grey, thinly scaled towards base, termen 
suffused with dark fuscous, more broadly towards apex ; cilia grey- 
whitish, with grey sub-basal shade. 
Pretoria, in October; one specimen. 
Eucosma insolens Meyr. 
Pretoria, in December ; one specimen. 
Eucosma symbola, n. sp. (Plate III, fig. 3). 
Male, 12 mm. Head and thorax dark fuscous. Abdomen grey. 
Forewings elongate, posteriorly slightly dilated, costa slightly arched, 
with short fold, apex obtuse, termen sinuate, somewhat oblique ; dark 
fuscous ; costa between J and apex, wuth five pairs of whitish 
strigulae, and two single ones ; and irregular acute triangular whitish 
blotch on dorsum beyond middle, reaching more than half across 
wing, containing two or three dark fuscous marks ; two oblique 
purplish-leaden strigae from first two pairs of costal strigulae to above 
apex of this blotch ; beyond an irregular zigzag line from beyond 
middle of costa to before tornus, the ground colour of posterior area 
is fulvous, with blackish costal strigulae between the others, crossed 
by two angulated bluish-leaden striae, from third and fifth pairs of 
strigulae, with a blackish parallel mark between them above middle, 
