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irrorated witli blackish and whitish with a dark fuscous sub-apical 
line. Hindwings pale grey; cilia pale whitish-ochreous. 
Albert Mine, Pretoria District, in January; one specimen. 
SlMAETHIS AEGYPTIACA Z. 
Pretoria, in November; one specimen. 
Choreutis bjerkandrella Thnb. 
Pretoria, in October. 
Glyphipteryx ditiorana Walk (Plate III, fig. 4). 
Pretoria, in December. 
TINEIDAE. 
Leucoptera scammatxas, n. sp. (Plate VIII, fig. 4). 
Male, 4 mm. Head white, with small frontal tuft. Thorax 
white. Abdomen grey. Forewings lanceolate; white; two narrow 
slightly curved fuscous transverse fasciae irrorated with blackish, 
fi st beyond middle, second just before apex and partly in cilia ; cilia 
otherwise white. Hindwings grey; cilia white. 
Pretoria, in September; one specimen. The neuration of this 
small and distinct species is not clearly perceptible, but seems 
consistent. 
Bucculatrix portilmis Meyr. 
One male, 7 mm. ; in March. The dorsal blackish patch should 
be described as a transverse spot of raised scales. 
Hieroxestis praematura, n. sp. (Plate VIII, fig. 5). 
Male, female, 16-17 mm. Head bronzy-fuscous, face shining 
brassy- whitish-ochreous. Palpi whitish-ochreous, externally more or 
less infuscated. Antennae whitish-ochreous, infuscated above, basal 
joint very long, somewhat swollen and flattened, in male thickened 
above with very dense projecting scales diminishing to apex. Thorax 
dark bronzy-fuscous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Forewings 
lanceolate, acute; dull purplish-fuscous, variably more or less mixed 
with bronzy-shining whitish-ochreous ; always a suffused shining 
whitish-ochreous spot on dorsum before tornus, and usually one or 
two smaller spots on dorsum anteriorly; cilia whitish-ocherous mixed 
with dark fuscous towards base. Hindwings in male with long 
expansible hairs at base of costa and dorsum ; pale fuscous, with 
bronzy reflections, towards base paler and tinged with whitish- 
ochreous ; cilia whitish-ochreous. 
Pinetown, Natal; sixteen specimens in January (Leigh) and one 
in May (Janse). To this genus should also be referred phaeochalca 
Meyr, described from Peunion as an Opogona through overlooking the 
frontal tuft, which is, in this species, small and inconspicuous ; it 
is common at Pinetown with praematura , but always distinct, 
12-14 mm., forewings without pale admixture or praetornal spot; 
hindwings and cilia grey (female) ; the male is peculiar in appearance, 
having a broad undefined median fascia of yellow-oehreous suffusion, 
and in the hindwings a median hyaline streak from base to near 
apex and a blackish apical patch. 
