54 Annals of the South African Museum. 



GEN. EUPITHECIA Curt. 



9. EUPITHECIA REDIVIVA, sp. nov. 



cJ. 17-18 mm. Palpus li times diameter of eye, rather heavily 

 scaled, third joint small, deflexed. Antenual ciliation minute (one- 

 fourth diameter of shaft). Head and body concolorous with wings ; 

 crown of head paler ; abdomen with dorsal ridge and crests pale. 



Forewing pale cinereous, faintly tinged with liver-colour ; about 

 nine very fine transverse wavy or denticulate lines, parallel with termen, 

 mostly indistinct and more or less interrupted ; the four proximal 

 usually very indistinct, in part obsolescent, the four distal slightly 

 better expressed ; median area somewhat clearer, its single line weak, 

 less denticulate than the others, passing distally to a distinct black 

 discal spot ; costal area slightly dark-shaded ; terminal line very faint. 

 Hindwing rather paler, with one or two very weak denticulate lines 

 parallel to, and near, termen and the beginnings of three or more 

 equally weak (or weaker) ones on abdominal margin ; discal dot small 

 and inconspicuous. Underside of forewiug more grey-suffused in 

 costal half ; of hindwing more dark-speckled, especially basally and 

 costally ; of both wings with distinct discal dot and two rather 

 thick and diffuse, but weak lines between this and termen, parallel 

 with the latter. 



Transvaal, Pilgrim's Rest (Miss L. Schunke). Others from Haenerts- 

 burg, December 5th-9th, 1909 (C. J. Swierstra), in coll. L. B. Prout 

 et coll. Transvaal Mus. and Watervalonder, November, 1910, in coll. 

 A. J. T. Janse et coll. L. B. Prout. Mentioned and figured in Ann. Trsv. 

 Mus. iii, 208, t. 12, f. 33, as provisionally a form of atomaria Warr. ; 

 rather narrower, more brownish grey, more weakly niai'ked, terminal 

 line more slender, more interrupted, the other lines finer, less broken, 

 that succeeding the outer " rivulet " band of both wings not (as in 

 atomaria} appreciably recurved towards tornus, discal dot of hiudwing 

 more distinct, palpus with third joint rather less elongate, more 

 deflexed. 



10. EUPITHECIA SUBCONCLUSARIA, sp. nov. 



$ 9 . 20-22 mm. Similar to the smaller specimens of Inconclusaria 

 Walk. (List. Lep. Ins. xxiv, 1242), but with the following differences : 

 Antenna of $ more thickened, with the ciliation much less than one- 

 half the diameter of the shaft (in inconclusaria almost as long as 

 diameter of shaft). Second abdominal tergite more strongly darkened. 

 Body and wings in general paler, the hindwiug almost white. Wings 

 rather less extremely elongate, apex of forewing rounded. 



