12_ Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
termen extremely obliquely rounded ; fuscous irregularly mixed with 
ferruginous-brownish and sprinkled with dark fuscous ; a blackish 
mark beneath base of costa, and one on fold towards base, each 
followed by longitudinal white-ochreous suffusion, latter streak 
extending to second diskal ; suffused white-ochreous oblique costal and 
dorsal opposite marks about f , not meeting ; cilia light fuscous ; 
towards base sprinkled with dark fuscous. Hind wings grey; cilia 
light grey. 
W armberg, Zoutpansberg District, in October and December; two 
specimens. 
Gelechia mesacta, n. sp. (Plate IV, fig. 8). 
Male, 16 mm. Head pale reddish-oclireous. Palpi dark fuscous 
sprinkled with blackish, apex of second and base of terminal joint 
wliitisli-ochreous. Antennae dark fuscous. Thorax pale reddish- 
ochreous, patagia dark fuscous. Abdomen ochreous-whitish, three 
basal segments light yellow. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa 
slightly arched, apex pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded ; 
dark fuscous, suffused with reddish-brown towards dorsum ; a short 
streak of blackish suffusion on base of dorsum ; a blackish streak along 
fold from near base to beyond J ; diskal stigmata rather approximated, 
blackish, connected by red brownish suffusion, beneath which adjacent 
to each is an additional less defined group of blackish scales ; a narrow 
undefined slightly angulated red-brownish fascia about f ; cilia grey, 
on basal half suffused with pale rosy and mixed with dark fuscous. 
Hindwings and cilia light grey. 
Pretoria, in October; one specimen. 
Gelechia peronectis, n. sp. (Plate IV, fig. 9). 
Male, 26 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-whitish sprinkled with 
grey, shoulders suffused with dark fuscous. Palpi whitish, second 
joint rosy-tinged, basal and apical thirds of second and terminal 
joints suffused with dark fuscous irroration, terminal joint longer 
than second. Antennae dark grey, ciliations nearly one. Abdomen 
fuscous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa hardly arched, 
apex obtuse-pointed, termen straight, rather strongly oblique ; 
fuscous sprinkled with dark fuscous and towards dorsum with whitish ;: 
some black and whitish scales on vein 12 ; a thick black medium 
longitudinal streak from base to end of cell, obliquely interrupted 
before middle of wing, both sections edged posteriorly with white ; 
streaks of blackish scales on veins 5 and 6, and some scattered blackish 
scales on other veins posteriorly ; cilia light fuscous sprinkled with 
darker. Hindwings grey; cilia light fuscous. 
Eersteling, Zoutpansberg District, in September; one specimen. 
Stegasta variana Meyr. 
Pretoria, in January and February; occurs in India and 
Australia. 
Gnorimoschema synecta, n. sp. (Plate IV, fig. 10). 
Male, female, 10-11 mm. Head white tinged with ochreous. 
Palpi whitish, second and terminal joints each with two wings of 
black irroration. Thorax whitish-ochreous, shoulders irrorated with 
dark fuscous. Abdomen grey- whitish. Forewings narrow, long- 
pointed, acute ; 7 and 8 out of 6 in male fuscous irrorated with 
