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behind it proximally (obliquely bounded about from one-third hind- 

 margin to origin of M 2 ) ; on the grey area are placed some fuscescent 

 dots which tend to form (or suggest) oblique lines ; cell-dot sharp, 

 little elongate ; postmedian line vague, accentuated on the veins from 

 R 3 to M 2 , oblique outward from beyond three-fifths costa, angled at 

 R l , then about parallel with termeu ; the usual bisected pale band 

 distally to the postmedian weak, especially at costal end ; subterminal 

 line hoary, not very sharp, strongly dentate anteriorly, then nearly 

 straight to submedian fold (with minute teeth outwards on the folds), 

 finally oblique to tornus ; terminal line feeble, interrupted at the 

 veins ; fringe with a fine pale line at base and again slightly pale 

 beyond middle. Hindwing with costa rather straight, apex round, 

 prominent, termen very slightly waved, not very strongly convex ; 

 pale grey, tinged with rufous ; cell-dot small but sharp ; distally 

 hereto very faint alternations of paler and darker shadings suggest 

 thick lines or slender bands ; the abdominal margin darkened ; terminal 

 line and fringe as on forewing. Forewing beneath less variegated, the 

 costal margin rather more noticeably spotted. Hindwing beneath 

 rather better marked than above, curved dark postmedian and sub- 

 terminal lines being rather more clearly expressed. 



Transvaal, Pilgrim's Kest (Miss L. Schunke). 



The colours of the forewing are nearly as in variegated forms of 

 pimpinellata Hb., but their distribution very different, more suggesting 

 the arrangement of sophia Butl. or sinicaria Leech; celatisigna Warr. 

 (percuharia Swinh.) has much in common with the new species, but 

 is smaller, darker, less hoary proximally, the discal dots less 

 developed. 



13. EUPITHECIA SUBTERLIMBATA, Sp. nOV. 



c 9. 21-24 mm. Head and upperside of body green, dotted and 

 spotted with brown or fuscous ; underside and anal extremity pale 

 ochreous grey, abdomen in dark specimens a good deal irrorated with 

 fuscous. Palpus nearly twice as long as diameter of eye ; pale greyish 

 ochreous, much mixed with fuscous. Antenna in c? with slender 

 sessile fascicles of cilia, fully as long as diameter of shaft. Abdominal 

 crest developed, pale grey, mixed with fusctus. Foreleg above and on 

 innerside strongly darkened, except at ends of joints. 



Forewing moderately broad ; pale dull green, variably (but always 

 more or less strongly) irrorated with fuscous or reddish-brown, or even 

 light, bright ferruginous ; markings fuscous ; basal patch slight or 

 obsolete : subbasal band little bent, lines between this and median 

 area vague ; median area rather broad, variable, always more or less 



