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NEW SPECIES OF VBANIIBAE AXD GEOMETBIDAE 

 FROM THE AETHIOPIAN REGION. 



By W WARRENT, M.A., F.K.S. 



FAMILY VRANIlDAi:. 



Subfamily EPIPLEMINAE. 



1. Epiplema confuscata spec nov. 



Foreirinff : dark slaty fuscous, speckled with darker, and with distinct lilack 

 striae along costa ; lines marked Ij}' oldique hlack costal streaks at one-third and 

 before two-thirds; the tirst obsolete at middle of wing; the second obscurely 

 curved, but ending in a black spot at two-thirds of inner margin, where and at 

 vein 4 it is faintly edged with whitish externally; a snbmarginal row of live 

 black crinkled marks, internally pale-edged and slightly brownish externiilly ; 

 fringe concolorons. 



IlimI icing : quite smooth in costal half; below, a mixture of slightly shining 

 grey scales mixed with black ; outer line bracket-siiapcd, blackisli with pale edge, 

 hooked outwards on vein 4, preceded by a black shade from middle to inner 

 margin ; iliscocellnlar-mark obli(ine, broad and chestnut-brown, meeting a line 

 of greyish white scales ruuuing from base along lower half of cell and ending 

 in a wedge-shaped black mark before the discocelbilar streak, which is also 

 iolliiwed by a similar black mark; a blackish lunulate submarginal line, preceded 

 abiive vein 4 by some white scales ; anal area tilled with slightly lustrous grey 

 scales, mixed with black striae and tinged in parts with brown. 



Underside dull cinereous, darker in forewing. 



Face and palpi black ; vertex dark fuscous ; thorax slaty grey ; abdomen 

 broken. 



Expanse of wings : 20 mm. 



1 ? from Moyamba, 8. Leone, May 1903 (D. (^itor). 



Outer margin of forewing simjily curved ; of hindwing witli two tails, at 

 veins 7 and 4, and a short tooth between at 0. 



2. Epiplema rotunda sjiec, nov. 



Forewing: chalk-white; costa finely dotted with black; two strong black 

 dashes above subcostal vein before one-fourth and one-half, marking the origin 

 of first and second lines, of which the second only i.s distinct and out.curved, 

 brownish, preceded by two brownish blotches, one at the end of cell, the other 

 on inner margin ; inner margin at base slightly clouded with grey-brown ; similar 

 dili'use clouds at anal angle and before outer margin at middle ; four dark dots in 

 a curve between veins 7 and 3 before outer margin ; marginal line finely brown; 

 fringe white. 



UiniliriiHi : with the outer line curved and double, bluntly bent on vein 4, 

 the inner arm marked with black above snbmedian fold and jircceded by a patch 



