Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
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median markings and apex, first oblique, second little oblique, third somewhat 
inwards-oblique, a projecting dark fuscous bar from apex, and another 
abruptly directed downwards. Hindwings and cilia whitish. 
Natal, Durban, in December (Janse); two specimens. Closely similar to 
the European spartifoliella group, and also to the Australian hemizona. 
Leucoptera obelacma n.sp. 
$ $ 5-6 mm. Head, eyecaps, and thorax shining white, head smooth. 
Antennae dark grey. Abdomen whitish. Forewings rather broad-lanceolate, 
apex produced; shining white; a short fine very oblique ochreous-yellow 
streak from middle of costa, edged on each side with a fine blackish line; a 
raised pale golden-metallic post-tornal spot, edged on each side above by a 
minute black dot, sometimes preceded above also by an ochreous-yellow 
spot; a second streak from costa at § similar to the first but sometimes less 
defined, its apex connected with a fine longitudinal orange line running into 
apex, infuscated anteriorly : cilia white, on costa with fine dark fuscous basal 
and median lines projecting at apex. Hindwings and cilia whitish. 
Transvaal, Pretoria, from September to November (Janse) ; six specimens. 
Crobylophora daricella Meyr. 
I now consider staterias and onychotis to be only forms of this species, 
which varies (perhaps climatically) in development of colour, and has pro- 
bably been distributed artificially over its wide range with its foodplant, the 
garden Plumbago capensis ; presumably South Africa is its native home. 
Crobylophora xanthochyta n.sp. 
6 mm. Head, eyecaps, and thorax shining white. Abdomen grey. 
Forewings lanceolate, apex produced, acute; shining white; a very oblique 
ochreous-yellow blackish-edged streak from middle of costa, converging to 
apex of an ochreous-yellow anteriorly blackish-edged triangular spot on costa 
at f, both almost confluent with an ochreous-yellow patch surrounding a 
raised silvery-leaden-metallic post-tornal spot edged on each side above by 
a black dot, this yellow patch extending to apex and into costal cilia : cilia 
otherwise whitish-grey, with two erect blackish lines above apex, one pro- 
jecting at apex, and one abruptly downwards-oblique. Hindwings grey; cilia 
light grey. 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in July and October (Janse); two specimens. 
Opostega melitardis n.sp. 
$ 7 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax white. Abdomen ochreous- 
whitish. Forewings lanceolate; shining white; an oblique yellow-brownish 
streak from middle of dorsum reaching half across wing; a straight yellow- 
brownish line from § of costa to a small black apical dot : cilia ochreous- 
whitish, on costa with a subbasal brownish line converging to apical dot. 
Hindwings and cilia ochreous-whitish. 
Natal, Umkomaas, in January (Janse); one specimen. 
Opostega tincta n.sp. 
cJ $ 7-8 mm. Head, eyecaps, and thorax white. Antennae light greyish- 
ochreous. Palpi grey. Abdomen grey. Forewings rather broad-lanceolate, 
apex somewhat produced, acute; shining white; a blackish dot on costa 
before and a slight dark grey subdorsal mark opposite to it; a rather large 
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