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Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
lanceolate, acute ; blackish-fuscous ; markings ochreous-whitish ; a 
moderate fascia almost at base ; a roundish blotch in disk slightly 
beyond middle, almost touching dorsum ; a small costal spot about f , 
and a dorsal dot opposite ; cilia blackish-fuscous, towards tornus grey. 
Hindwings grey; cilia light grey. 
Pretoria, in October; one specimen. 
Stagmatophora phalacra, n. sp. (Plate VI, fig. 8). 
Female, 10 mm. Head dark grey, collar and back of crown 
whitish. Palpi rather stout, dark fuscous, very finely transversely 
ribbed with whitish. Antennae dark fuscous, becoming ochreous- 
whitish towards apex. Thorax glossy dark fuscous, shoulders 
narrowly whitish. Abdomen dark fuscous. Forewdngs rather broad 
lanceolate, acute ; glossy dark fuscous, faintly purplish-tinged ; cilia 
concolorous. Hindwings grey; cilia fuscous. 
Van der Merwe Station, Pretoria District, in December; one 
specimen. 
Limnoecia neurogramma, n. sp. (Plate VI, fig. 9). 
Female, 27 mm. Head whitish, crown with two dark fuscous 
stripes. Palpi dark fuscous mixed with white, especially towards 
middle of second joint, terminal joint with some loosely projecting 
scales towards apex posteriorly. Antennae fuscous. Thorax fuscous, 
suffused anteriorly with dark fuscous with a whitish stripe on each 
side of back. Abdomen fuscous. Forewings lanceolate; fuscous 
strongly streaked with blackish between veins; costal edge white from 
\ to | ; a white sub-costal streak from base to beyond middle ; a 
white streak almost along dorsum from base to tornus, thence 
continued along termen to apex ; margins of cell and internal vein 
marked with strong white streaks ; other veins partially indicated 
with whitish ; cilia light fuscous ; basal half mixed with blackish, at 
apex with a white bar. Hindwings rather dark fuscous; cilia light 
fuscous. 
Warmberg, Zoutpansberg District, in December; one specimen. 
This, and the next species, which are obviously allied together, 
both show peculiarities in the scaling of the palpi, but the known 
species of Linnoecia already show much diversity in this respect. 
Limnoecia eretmota, n. sp. (Plate VI, fig. 10). 
Male, 20 mm. Head white, sides of face dark fuscous. Palpi 
white, second joint above with rough projecting scales diminishing 
to apex, beneath rough-scaled towards apex, externally mixed with 
dark fuscous, terminal joint slender, with anterior edge dark fuscous. 
Thorax white, shoulders and a narrow dorsal stripe becoming obsolete 
posteriorly dark fuscous. Abdomen whitish-yellowish. Fore wings 
lanceolate ; light fuscous, marked with dark fuscous lines between 
veins, and in cell mixed with dark fuscous ; costa narrowly white 
from near base to § ; costal area with suffused white streaks between 
the dark lines ; a narrow whitish streak along dorsum ; a strong white 
streak beneath middle from base to termen, posteriorly broken up 
into several branches beneath along veins ; cilia light fuscous mixed 
with whitish (imperfect). Hindwings grey; cilia pale whitish- 
ochreous. 
Pretoria, in January; one specimen. 
