Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
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Mompha quinquecristata Wals. 
20-22 mm. Palpi white with black bands. Forewings with a 
small white inwardly oblique mark on costa at f, and a white linear 
dot at extreme apex (these are indicated in Lord Walsingham’s 
figure but not in his description) ; the scale tufts, though not truly 
metallic, have yet in certain lights a strong golden iridescence. 
Pretoria, in December. 
Stathmopoda tricfiodora, n. sp. (Plate VII, fig. 1). 
Male, 16 mm. Head wdiitish-ochreous (partly defaced). Palpi 
whitish-ochreous. Antennae ciliations fasciculate 1-J, Thorax 
whitish-ochreous, spotted with dark fuscous. Abdomen whitish- 
ochreous banded with ferruginous, with lateral series of blackish 
spots, anal segment ochreous-orange with blackish apex. Posterior 
tibiae and basal joint of tarsi clothed with very long rough projecting 
blackish and whitish bristly scales. Forewings lanceolate, acute ; 
whitish-ochreous ; markings dark grey mixed with black ; a narrow 
costal streak from base to middle, with a short projection near base; 
an elongate spot on base of dorsum; an elongate blotch extending 
over costal half of wing from J to beyond middle, connected by 
moderate irregular fasciae with dorsum before middle and tornus, 
latter extended as a streak along termen to apex; a roundish spot in 
disk at ; two or three inwardly oblique marks on costa towards 
apex; cilia grey, above apex pale fulvous, beneath tornus tinged with 
fulvous. Hindwings fulvous irrorated with fuscous; cilia light grey 
tinged with fulvous. 
Waterfall, Zoutpansberg District, in November; one specimen, 
Eretmocera scatospila Z. 
Pretoria District, in April. 
Eretmocera florifera, n. sp. (Plate VII, fig. 2). 
Female, 12 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark bronzy-fuscous ; 
palpi whitish towards base ; thorax with a pale yellow spot on each 
side posteriorly. Antennae purple-blackish, median third with long 
rough projecting scales above. Abdomen bright deep yellow, with 
deep fuscous-purple dorsal spot extending over two basal segments, 
apical segment blackish except tip. Forewings lanceolate; purple- 
blackish ; a moderate roundish pale ochreous-yellow spot in disk at J ; 
a small wdiitish yellowish spot on tornus and one rather beyond it 
on costa; cilia purple-blackish. Hindwings bright deep yellow; a 
dark purplish-fuscous apical patch covering rather more than J, 
anterior edge with projections in disk and on termen ; cilia deep 
yellow, round apical patch dark fuscous. Under-surface of all wings 
deep yellow with dark fuscous apical patches. 
Pretoria, in December; one specimen. 
SCYTRIDAE. 
Scytpiris cometa, n. sp. (Plate VII, fig. 3). 
Female 13 mm. Head and thorax grey suffused with whitish. 
Palpi pale grey suffused with white towards base. Antennae dark 
grey. Abdomen grey, beneath whitish. Forewings elongate, rather 
narrow, apex produced, acute, termen sinuate, very oblique; grey, 
with a faint purplish gloss towards apex ; a moderately broad suffused 
