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Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
white. (Abdomen broken.) Forewings elongate, rather narrow, 
costa slightly arched, apex very long-produced, acute-falcate, termen 
oblique; dark fuscous; a. broad shining white stripe covering median 
third from base to near termen, sharply defined above, beneath 
suffused into a pale yellow-brownish stripe which covers dorsal third 
extreme edge ; a fine suffused wdiitish-ochreous streak along costa 
from \ to |, sending a branch from middle to above apex of median 
stripe; an oblique dark fuscous line splitting apex of median stripe; 
five white w x edge-shaped marks on posterior third of costa, partly in 
cilia, first two more oblique and slender, first terminating in a short 
fine metallic mark ; apical area beneath these suffused with 
ferruginous-yellowish, which extends also along terminal area, except 
a leaden-metallic terminal streak ; cilia grey, on termen whitish with 
a dark fuscous sub-basal line and three black dots beyond it, beneath 
apex with two blackish hooks, on costa with dark fuscous bars 
between wdiite marks. Hindwings grey; cilia grey, round apex 
suffused with ochreous- whitish except towards base. 
Bultfontein, Pretoria District, in January; two specimens. 
Semodictis, n. g. 
Head with appressed scales ; ocelli present ; tongue developed. 
Antennae f, in male simple, basal joint elongate, without pecten. 
Labial palpi very long, recurved, second joint with double or single 
projecting tuft beneath, terminal joint longer than second, acute, 
with two scale-projections posteriorly. Maxillary palpi very short, 
filiform, appressed to tongue. Posterior tibiae clothed with long 
hairs above. Forewings with 2 from towards angle, 6 to apex, 
7 and 8 stalked, 11 from middle. Hindwings 1, elongate-trapezoidal 
apex obtuse, termen oblique, not sinuate, cilia almost 1 ; 3 and 4 
approximated at base, 5 rather approximated, 6 and 7 stalked. 
Type S. tetraptila. To this genus is also referable Chelaria 
albogrisea Wals. 
Semodictis tetraptila, n. sp. (Plate Y, fig. 7). 
Male, female, 16-17 mm. Head and thorax pale grey mixed 
with whitish. Palpi grey irregularly mixed with dark grey and 
whitish, second joint with two separate tufts. Abdomen grey, 
suffused with ochreous-whitish towards base. Forewings elongate, 
narrow, widest at J, thence gradually narrowed, costa with scales 
rather prominent beyond middle, apex rounded, termen very obliquely 
rounded ; light grey mixed with wdiitish, with some scattered blackish 
scales ; several small blackish-grey spots on basal fourth ; a blackish- 
grey trapezoidal blotch in disk before middle, broadest beneath, 
preceded by some brownish suffusion ; an irregular dark fuscous spot 
extending along costa from J to middle almost confluent with this ; 
apical f of wing irregularly marked with grey, suffusedly mixed 
with blackish, with a more defined dark spot on costa at and 
a black mark at apex; cilia light greyish, irrorated with whitish, 
towards base indistinctly barred with blackish irroration. Hindwings 
grey, paler towards base; cilia light greyish. 
Kranspoort, Pretoria District, in December ; two specimens. 
Hothris rhyodes, n. sp. (Plate Y, fig. 8). 
Male, 17 mm. Head and thorax white, shoulders suffused with 
fuscous. Palpi white, second joint with very long dense triangular 
