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Aotals of the Transvaal Museum. 
tinged with pale ochreous. Abdomen whitish. Fore wings narrowly elongate- 
lanceolate, acute ; pale brownish-ochreous, with a few scattered dark 
fuscous specks ; a narrow streak of white suffusion along costa from base 
to about three-quarters ; dorsal area as far as fold suffused with whitish ; 
cilia pale whitish-ochreous, on costa anteriorly white. Hind wings and 
cilia ochreous- whitish. 
Pretoria, in August and December (Janse) ; two specimens. Immedi- 
ately distinguished from somnulentella by the whitish hind wings. 
Tischeria zestica, n. sp. 
Male and female, 7-8 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous, 
face paler. Antennae ochreous- whitish. Abdomen prismatic whitish-grey. 
Fore wings lanceolate, acute ; yellow-ochreous or light yellowish ; markings 
formed by grey suffusion sprinkled with dark fuscous ; a streak along costa 
throughout ; a narrow oblique fascia from two- thirds of costa to tornus, 
sometimes interrupted ; a similar fascia in middle of wing is indicated 
in male, and slightly in one female, and in male basal area is also suffused 
with dark irroration, in one male the wing is almost wholly suffused with 
grey and irrorated with dark grey ; cilia whitish-ochreous, round apex 
sprinkled with dark fuscous points towards base, with a dark sub-basal 
line. Hind wings whitish-grey or light grey ; cilia ochreous- whitish. 
Pretoria and Warmberg (Zoutpansberg District), in September, 
February, and May (Janse) ; six specimens. Nearly approaches the 
European margined ; apparently a variable species. 
Copobathra, n. g. 
Head with appressed scales ; ocelli present ; tongue absent. Antennae 
one, in male moderately ciliated, basal joint very long, flattened, beneath 
with pecten of scales. Labial palpi moderately long, slightly curved, 
sub-ascending, with appressed scales, terminal joint shorter than second, 
tolerably pointed! Maxillary palpi long, straight, clothed with scales, 
appressed beneath head. Posterior tibiae clothed with long hairs above. 
Fore wings with two from angle, five and six out of seven, seven to costa, 
eight out of seven, eleven from middle. Hind wings one-half, linear- 
lanceolate, cilia five ; two-four parallel, five and six apparently out of seven. 
Allied to Opogona ; the maxillary palpi are peculiar. 
Copobathra menodora, n. sp. 
Male, 16 mm. Head ochreous-yellowish. Palpi ochreous-yellowish, 
terminal joint dark fuscous except apex. Antennae dark grey, obscurely 
ringed with pale ochreous, basal joint ochreous-yellowish. Thorax ochreous- 
yellowish, shoulders dark fuscous. Abdomen pale ochreous. Fore wings 
elongate-lanceolate ; glossy light yellow-ochreous ; basal third of costa 
suffused with blackish ; cilia pale ochreous-yellowish. Hind wings grey ; 
cilia whitish-ochreous tinged with grey. 
Van der Merwe Station (near Pretoria), in December (Janse) ; one 
specimen. 
Tineola chloristis, Meyr. 
Male and female, 12-16 mm. A true Tineola ; fore wings with seven and 
eight usually separate. Recognizable by its relatively rather broad wings. 
