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Annals of the Transvial Museum 
Palaetheta ischnozona, n. sp. (Plate VII, fig. 9). 
Female, 13-14 mm. Head white, crown with a central blotch 
of dark fuscous irroration. Palpi white, second, and terminal joints 
each with two dark fuscous bands. Thorax white, variably spotted 
with dark fuscous irroration. Abdomen white, segments banded 
with ferruginous. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex, 
obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded ; white ; three narrow oblique 
fasciae of dark fuscous irroration partially suffused with brownish, 
first from middle of base to J of dorsum, second from middle of costa 
to tornus, narrowest in disk, dilated on tornus, third from f of 
costa to termen beneath apex, slender and interrupted ; plical stigma 
dark fuscous ; cilia white, near tips with a series of dark fuscous 
points. Hindwings light grey or whitish-grey; cilia ochreous-whitislu 
Pretoria, in December and February; two specimens. 
Stenoma ovata Wals. 
One male, 28 mm. Pretoria District, in September. If correctly 
identified, a true Stenoma, except that labial palpi are shorter than 
usual, with second joint more densely scaled. 
GRACILAPIADAE. 
Epicephala barbitias, n. sp. (Plate VII, fig. 10). 
Female, 12 mm. Head and thorax white, face with a blackish 
spot on each side, patagia fuscous. Palpi white, apex of second joint 
and a median band of terminal joint black. (Abdomen broken.) 
Forewings very narrow, tolerably pointed; light fuscous, towards 
costa sprinkled with black and grey-whitish ; three or four more or 
less marked fine longitudinal lines of black scales in disk from base 
to about f a moderate white dorsal streak from base to near apex,, 
somewhat mixed with fuscous, upper edge slightly sinuous and 
marked with some black scales in sinuations ; two oblique white 
strigulae from costa towards apex ; a black apical dot containing a 
very fine white V-shaped mark; cilia light fuscous, basal half barred, 
with whitish, outer half round apex and upper part of termen whitish 
with two black lines. Hindwings grey; cilia light ochreous-greyish.. 
Pretoria, in September; one specimen. 
Epicephala veneranda, n. sp. (Plate VIII, fig. 1). 
Female, 13-14 mm. Head white. Palpi wdnte, second joint 
light greyish-oclireous with very long' dense projecting tuft beneath. 
Antennae dark grey. Thorax white sprinkled with grey. Abdomen 
grey mixed with whitish. Forewings very narrow, shortly round- 
pointed ; grey, mixed with dark fuscous and sprinkled with whitish 
a moderate white streak along dorsum from base almost to apex, 
upper edge rather irregular, posterior portion cleft by a dark fuscous; 
vein; two silvery-metallic lines crossing wing* posteriorly, becoming 
white towards costa, first from beyond middle of costa to tornus,. 
angulated in disk, second about | direct, curved, enlarged at lower 
extremity; between these are one or two white interneural streaks 
above dorsal streak, and a dark fuscous streak beneath costa ; beyond 
second in middle is a small blackish suffused spot above which is a 
white dot ; cilia greyisli-ochreous, on costa fuscous with base whitish,, 
