Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
•costal hair-pencil pale yellowish. Forewings beneath with patch of 
modified light yellowish-fuscous scales occupying cell and extending 
above it, lower margin of cell with fringe of hairs directed obliquely 
upwards. 
Lekkerwater (Rietfontein No. TO), Zoutpansberg District, in 
September; one specimen. 
Prosarotra, n. g. 
Head with loosely appressed hairs, side-tufts spreading ; ocelli 
present; tongue developed. Antennae f, in male simple, basal 
joint moderate, without pecten. Labial palpi very long, curved, 
ascending, second joint thickened with appressed scales, above with 
scales roughly spreading towards apex, terminal joint shorter than 
second, moderate, acute. Maxillary palpi very short, filiform 
appressed to tongue. Posterior tibiae clothed with long hairs above. 
Forewings with 2 from towards angle, T and 8 stalked, T to termen, 
11 from middle. Hindwings 1, elongate-ovate, cilia j-§, 3 and 4 
connate, 5-7 parallel. 
Type ciganopis Meyr., from Ceylon. 
Prosarotra sarcopa, n. sp. (Plate YII, fig. 8). 
Female, 18 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dull crimson. 
Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex 
obtuse, termen straight, oblique ; dull crimson ; costal edge grey 
towards base, thence obscurely whitish to middle ; a dark grey streak 
edged posteriorly with ochreous-yellow running from disk before 
J to dorsum beyond middle ; second diskal stigma blackish-grev : a 
short inwardly oblique whitish streak from tonus, edged anteriorly 
by a patch of dark grey suffusion; a few scattered dark grey scales 
posteriorly; cilia light crimson, base whitish-suffused. Hindwings 
light grey; cilia grey- whitish. 
Pretoria, in March; one specimen. 
XYLORYCTIDAE. 
Procometis oxypora Meyr. 
One male, 32 mm. ; one female, 42 mm. Forewings with costa 
suffused with white, especially in female. Hindwings in male rather 
dark grey, costal hair-pencil grey; in female grey, cilia whitish- 
ochreous. 
Pretoria District, in December and January. 
STENOMIDAE. 
Palaetheta, n. g. 
Head with appressed scales, side-tufts loosely spreading ; ocelli 
apparently absent; tongue developed. Antennae J, basal joint rather 
elongate, with pecten. Labial palpi long, recurved, second joint 
beneath with moderate tuft of projecting hairs towards apex, terminal 
joint as long as second, moderate, acute. Maxillary palpi very short, 
filiform. Posterior tibiae clothed with rough hairs. Forewings with 
2 and 3 stalked, * separate, to costa, 11 from middle. Hindwings 1, 
elongate-ovate, cilia 1 ; 3 and 4 connate, 5-7 tolerably parallel, 6 to 
apex. 
Allied to Parexaida . 
