Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
25' 
on upper part of termen white with blackish basal line. Hindwings 
rather dark grey; cilia ochreous-grey. 
Beynespoort, Pretoria District, in December and January; two 
specimens. Distinguished from all described species of the genus by 
the long tuft of palpi, but in all other characters quite typical. 
ELACHISTIDAE. 
Elachista chelonitis, n. sp. (Plate VIII, fig. 2). 
Male, 10 mm. Head white. Palpi white, tinged with ochreous 
towards base, second joint rather rough beneath. Antennae and 
thorax ochreous-whitish. Abdomen grey, sides and apex whitish- 
ochreous. Forewings rather broad-lanceolate; 4 absent, 8 absent; 
white ; markings light yellow-oclireous ; an elongate spot about fold 
before J, edged above and beneath with some blackish specks ; two 
moderate fasciae marked with costal spots and sub-dorsal dots of 
blackish irroration, first median, rather oblique, second beyond J, 
direct ; a transverse spot before apex ; an irregular streak of fine dark 
fuscous irroration runs in disk from first fascia to anteapical spot ; 
a blackish mark on termen between second fascia and anteapical 
spot ; cilia ochreous-whitish with some scattered black specks, 
especially round apex. Hindwings with 4 present; grey; cilia 
whitish-oclireous tinged with grey. 
Van der Merwe Station, Pretoria District, in December; one 
specimen. 
PLTTTELLID AE . 
Temelucha, n. g. 
Head with appressed scales; ocelli present; tongue developed. 
Antennae f, basal joint rather short, with dense anterior pecten of 
scales. Labial palpi moderate, sub-ascending, second joint thickened 
wuth dense appressed scales, terminal joint very short, loosely scaled, 
obtuse. Maxillary palpi rudimentary. Posterior tibiae with short 
bristly hairs above. Forewings with slight dorsal scale-teeth; 2 from 
angle, 6 and T stalked, T to costa, .11 from before middle. Hind- 
wings |, lanceolate, cilia 2 \ ; 4 and 5 rather approximated to 6, 
6 and 7 connate. 
Allied to Epermenia. 
Temelucha xeropa, n, sp. (Plate VIII, fig. 3). 
Female, 12 mm. Head and thorax white sprinkled with grey. 
Palpi white irrorated with blackish except apex of joints. Abdomen 
whitish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex 
pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded ; fuscous finely irrorated 
with whitish, with a few dark fuscous specks ; dorsum suffused with 
whitish ; a light brownish-ochreous sub-costal streak from base to § ; 
a transverse brownish-ochreous spot below fold at 1 ; a larger 
transverse brownish-ochreous dorsal spot before middle, reaching 
half across wing, from summit of which a partially interrupted light 
ochreous streak runs to apex ; black dots in disk at J, beyond middle, 
and beyond f, last somewhat larger and elongate; undefined small 
scale-projections of blackish irroration on dorsal spot and before 
tornus ; cilia pale whitish-oclireous, round apex fuscous-tinged and 
