Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
27 
METACHANDIDAE 
Daemonarcha n.g. 
Head with appressed scales, sidetufts large, raised, meeting and projecting 
on forehead; ocelli small, posterior; tongue developed. Antennae §•, in $ 
serrate, minutely ciliated, basal joint elongate, without pecten. Labial palpi 
very long, curved, obliquely ascending, second joint very long, much thickened 
with dense scales and above expanded with rough projecting scales throughout, 
terminal joint less than half second, slender, acute. Maxillary palpi very short, 
filiform, appressed to tongue. Posterior tibiae clothed with hairs above. 
Forewings with 1 b furcate, 2 and 3 stalked from angle, 4 and 5 approximated 
to them at base, 7 absent, 8 and 9 stalked, 11 from middle. Hindwings 1, 
elongate-trapezoidal, termeri somewhat sinuate beneath apex, cilia nearly 1 ; 
cell less than half wing, 3 and 4 connate, 5 somewhat approximated, 6 absent. 
Allied to Ancylometis. 
Daemonarcha cyprophanes n.sp. 
$ 14-15 mm. Head and thorax deep purple. Palpi dark purple-bronzy- 
grey. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, 
apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded; deep blue-purple, towards apex and 
termen becoming bright coppery; a faint oblique coppery strigula on costa 
at §: cilia purple-coppery, towards tornus dark grey. Hindwings and cilia 
grey; a fine groove along lower margin of cell continued between 3 and 4 to 
termen. 
Natal, Umkomaas and Verulam, in January (Janse); two specimens. 
COSMOPTERYGIDAE 
Labdia caulota n.sp. 
$ 17-19 mm. Head white, in $ with dark fuscous median line on crown. 
Palpi white, second joint thickened and roughened with scales beneath, with 
basal half dark fuscous and a faint fuscous subapical ring, terminal joint 
slightly roughened with scales anteriorly, with indistinct dark fuscous subbasal 
and subapical rings. Thorax white, patagia and a median streak not reaching 
posterior extremity dark fuscous. Abdomen dark fuscous, segmental margins 
white. Forewings lanceolate, apex considerably produced, acute; 6 and 7 
out of 8; dark fuscous; a white streak from base for a short distance along 
costa, thence very obliquely to § of disc, extremities pointed; a white streak 
from ^ of costa to f of costa, slightly downcurved and enclosing a slender 
costal streak of ground-colour; a slender irregular white dorsal streak from 
base to beyond tornus ; a white apical dash : cilia whitish-grey, round apex 
darker grey, on end of costal streak white. Hindwings pale blue-grey; cilia 
ochreous-whitish. 
Zululand, Eshowe, in January (Janse); Natal, Pinetown, in February 
(Leigh) ; two specimens. 
Limnoecia effulgens n.sp. 
cJ 12 mm. Head pale shining brassy-bronze. Palpi orange-yellow, anterior 
edge of terminal joint blackish. Antennae dark fuscous, apical fifth whitish. 
Thorax deep indigo-purplish. Abdomen dark fuscous. Forewings elongate- 
lanceolate; dark fuscous becoming bright deep purple posteriorly, basal area 
