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erect triangular dark grey tornal spot marked with blackish, reaching 
half across wing ; apical portion of costa blackish, with pairs of whitish 
strigulae ; ocellus margined laterally by thick silvery streaks, and con- 
taining two short black marks ; cilia grey with rows of white points, round 
apex and upper part of termen and beneath tornus suffused with blackish. 
Hind wings with three and four stalked ; rather dark grey ; cilia grey, 
slightly whitish sprinkled. 
Pretoria (Janse) ; Woodbush Village (Swierstra) ; in December ; two 
specimens. Approaches rhothia , but the antennal notch is much nearer 
base. 
Eucosma malacodes, n. sp. 
Female, 16 mm. Head fulvous-ochreous. Palpi moderate, sub- 
ascending, ochreous-grey- whitish, terminal joint grey. Thorax grey, irrorated 
with grey-whitish. Abdomen grey. Fore wings elongate, moderate, costa 
slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen sinuate, somewhat oblique ; grey, 
sprinkled with grey-whitish ; costa grey-whitish, shortly strigulated with 
blackish irroration ; a pale fulvous-ochreous apical patch, extending along 
costa to middle, and along termen to tornus, marked with several irregular 
oblique blue-leaden strigae from costa, its lower portion forming the ocellus, 
which is margined anteriorly with obscure blue-leaden suffusion and 
posteriorly with a pale golden metallic streak, and contains three elongate 
black dots ; cilia grey, basal half irrorated with whitish and dark grey 
and limited by a line of blackish irroration, outer half prismatic- 
submetallic; towards tornus sprinkled with whitish. Hind wings with three 
and four stalked ; grey, darker posteriorly ; cilia grey-whitish, with dark 
grey sub-basal shade. 
Pretoria, in December (Janse) ; one specimen. 
Eucosma riciniata, n. sp. 
Male, 15-16 mm. Head and palpi dark fuscous. Antennae simple. 
Thorax dark fuscous, patagia mixed with white execpt on shoulders. 
Abdomen grey. Fore wings elongate, costa gently arched, without fold, 
apex obtuse, termen sinuate, little oblique ; white ; a dark fuscous basal 
patch striated with bluish-leaden-grey, outer edge running from two- 
fifths of costa to two-fifths of dorsum, rather curved ; costa from this 
to apex dark fuscous, with seven pairs of fine white strigulae ; space 
between basal patch and central fascia grey on costal third, with several 
grey marks in remainder ; central fascia broad, ill-defined, grey, obliquely 
interrupted above middle, somewhat mixed with brownish, and with two 
black marks on posterior edge in and below middle ; a fuscous streak 
beneath dark costal edge from this to apex, marked with oblique leaden- 
grey strigulae rising from costal pairs ; ocellus margined laterally by 
silvery streaks and above by a black mark, and containing two black 
dots near upper portion of posterior edge ; apex and upper part of termen 
chestnut-brown, with a white terminal mark below apex ; cilia blackish- 
grey sprinkled with white, with a broad white tornal patch. Hind wings 
with dorsal edge thickened, three and four stalked ; grey ; cilia whitish, 
with two grey shades. 
Haenertsburg, in December (Swierstra) ; two specimens. 
