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Annals or the Transvaal Museum. 
fuscous strigae ; ocellus margined laterally with leaden-metallic and 
containing three black dots ; cilia light grey irrorated with white, 
with dark fuscous sub-basal line. Hindwings with dorsal cilia 
thickened and somewhat curled; grey, darker posteriorly; cilia 
whitish-grey, with dark grey sub-basal line. 
Pretoria, in October; one specimen. 
GELECHIADAE. 
Paltodora melanatracta Meyr. 
Pretoria, in October ; one specimen. 
Paltodora operosa, n. sp. (Plate IV, fig. 1). 
Male, 18-22 mm. Head whitish-ochreous irrorated with fuscous. 
Palpi ochreous-whitish, second joint irrorated with dark fuscous, 
terminal joint with anterior edge dark fuscous. Thorax brownish 
irrorated with dark fuscous and whitish. Abdomen greyish irrorated 
with darker, apex whitish. Forewings elongate, very narrow, long- 
pointed, acute, termen slightly sinuate beneath apex ; brown, 
irrorated on margins and veins with dark fuscous and whitish, but 
this irroration sometimes extends over most of wing, except longi- 
tudinal streaks in disk and along fold, sometimes tinged with 
yellowish ; stigmata represented by small suffused dark fuscous spots, 
plical very obliquely before first diskal ; similar spots near base in 
middle, beneath costa at J and J, and on fold between these ; cilia 
brownish with two dark fuscous shades, towards base mixed with 
whitish and dark fuscous. Hindwings grey ; cilia whitish-ochreous 
dinged with grey. 
Pretoria, in December and March; two specimens. 
Paltodora iospila, n. sp. (Plate IV, fig. 2). 
Male, 16 mm. Head white. Palpi white, second joint externally 
ferruginous sprinkled with dark grey except apex, with short triangular 
tuft, terminal joint sprinkled with grey anteriorly. Thorax whitish 
partially tinged with ferruginous. Abdomen grey, sides dark grey 
posteriorly. Forewings elongate, very narrow, costa hardly arched, 
apex acute, termen faintly sinuate, extremely oblique ; whitish tinged 
with ferruginous ; ferruginous spots on costa at base and J, former 
connected beneath with a fuscous transverse mark ; two small 
ferruginous spots beneath fold rather obliquely beyond these 
respectively ; costa suffused with grey irroration from \ to § ; a small 
ferruginous spot beneath costa at J ; stigmata represented by small 
ferruginous spots, plical very obliquely before first diskal ; a suffused 
grey streak sprinkled with dark grey along fold beneath diskal 
stigmata ; a fascia of ferruginous suffusion along termen, preceded 
by some grey suffusion ; cilia whitish, basal half sprinkled with 
blackish-grey. Hindwings pale grey ; cilia pale whitish-ochreous 
finged with ferruginous. 
Albert Mine, Pretoria District, in January; one specimen. 
Sxtotroga celyphodes, n. sp. (Plate IV, fig. 3). 
Female, 12-13 mm. Head white. Palpi white, lower half of 
second joint fuscous. Thorax white, shoulders brownish. Abdomen 
whitish. Forewings narrow, costa hardly arched, apex pointed, 
