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Annals of the Tkansvaal Museum. 
Batmchedm saurota, n. sp. 
Female, 18 mm. Head and thorax ochreous- white. Palpi white, mixed 
with fnscons externally except towards apex. Antennae greyish-ochreous. 
Abdomen pale greyish-ochreous. Fore wings very narrowly lanceolate, 
acute ; pale whitish-ochreous ; a small blackish dot beneath costa near 
base ; plical and second discal stigmata rather large, blackish ; cilia pale 
whitish-ochreous. Hind wings light grey ; cilia pale greyish-ochreous. 
Woodbush Village, in December (Swierstra) ; one specimen. 
Epermenia praefumata , n. sp. 
Female, 11-14 mm. Head whitish. Palpi moderate, whitish, second 
joint suffused with dark fuscous. Thorax whitish, sometimes partially 
brownish-tinged, shoulders suffused with dark fuscous irroration. Abdomen 
ochreous- whitish. Fore wings elongate-lanceolate ; pale brownish-ochreous 
tinged with whitish, more or less streaked with light brown in disc and 
much suffused with light brown on posterior third ; costa suffused with 
grey and sprinkled with black points ; discal stigmata small, black, remote ; 
some irregular black irroration on posterior third ; small scale-projections 
of a few black scales on dorsum at middle, three-quarters, and tornus ; 
cilia pale greyish-ochreous, round apex and upper part of termen suffused 
with grey and closely irr orated with black. Hind wings grey or whitish- 
grey ; cilia pale grey or whitish. 
Groenvlei (N.E. Pretoria District), Pretoria, in December and January 
(Janse) ; three specimens. 
Tineidae. 
Nepticula fluida, n. sp. 
Male and female, 4-5 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous. 
Antennae dark grey, eyecaps whitish-ochreous. Fore wings lanceolate ; 
whitish-ochreous ; cilia ochreous- whitish. Hind wings and cilia grey- 
whitish. 
Pretoria, in September (Janse) ; two specimens. 
Nepticula grandinosa, n. sp. 
Male, 5 mm. Head ochreous-whitish. Antennae grey, eyecaps 
ochreous-whitish. Thorax grey-whitish, sprinkled with dark grey. 
Abdomen grey. Fore wings lanceolate ; grey-whitish, irregularly irrorated 
with dark fuscous ; cilia whitish, towards base sprinkled with dark 
fuscous. Hind wings light grey ; cilia grey- whitish. 
Pretoria, in September (Janse) ; one specimen. 
Opostega bellicosa, n. sp. 
Female, 7 mm. Head ochreous-white, frontal tuft blackish-fuscous. 
Antennae grey, eyecaps ochreous-white. Thorax ochreous-white. Abdo- 
men light grey. Fore wings lanceolate, acute ; pale whitish-ochreous ; 
a transverse dark fuscous spot on costa slightly beyond middle, reaching 
nearly half across wing ; very small dark fuscous costal and terminal 
opposite transverse marks close before apex ; a minute black apical dot ; 
cilia pale whitish-ochreous. Hind wings and cilia grey. 
Pretoria, in October (Janse) ; one specimen. 
