338 NOVITATES ZOOLOGIOAE XXII. 191S. 



recalliug Loxofidonia explanata Walk. (^List Lep. Ins. xsiv. 1190") or Epirrhoe 

 thermochroa Hmpsn. {Tr. Zool. Soc. Land. xix. (2) 129, t. 4, f. 63~) ; discal dot 

 minute ; area heyoud median baud again traversed by ferrnginons lines ; snb- 

 terminal line whitish, obsolescent ; distal-marginal area somewhat clonded with 

 brown, with a not very strong, oblique whitish streak from apex ; terminal line 

 black, slightly interrnpted ; fringe brownish in proximal half, whitish in distal, 



ill-defined black spots opposite the veins. Hindtcinc/ rather narrow, with costal 



margin long (about Oiiholitlia shape), termeu slightly waved ; whitish, sometimes 

 with an ochreons tinge, proximal part somewhat shaded with jiale grey, a sinuous 

 dark grey postmedian line, least distinct at costa, oblique outwards from M- to 

 hindmargin, which it reaches near toruus ; slight beginnings of two proximal lines 

 at hindmargin ; some very feeble greyish shading indicating position of subterminal 

 line ; a dark terminal line ; fringe proxiraally much paler than on forewing, traces 

 of dark spots and of a dark central dividing-line. 



Both wings beneath pinkish, somewhat darker as far as postmedian line, 

 whitish just beyond this, discal dots and postmedian line well expressed, some 

 feeble lines between them, faint traces of grey-reddish lines in distal area; terminal 

 line and fringe marked nearly as above, but weaker. 



Basutoland : Pithaneng River Valley, January 29, 1902 (type); Masite, 

 December 8, 1902 (paratype) ; both in coll. Brit. Mus., collected by R. Crawshay. 



57. Eupithecia (?) dryas sp. nov. 



S ? , 27-28 mm. Face greeu. Palpus fuscous, nearly twice as long as 

 diameter of eye, strong, heavily scaled beneath. Vertex green. Antenna fuscous, 

 in S with even ciliation of not quite the length of diameter of shaft. Collar 

 fuscous. Thorax and abdomen dorsally green, the latter banded or blotched with 

 fuscous ; metathorax with small paired crests ; abdominal crests slight, consisting 

 of small whitish scale-patches at ends of segments ; anal tuft of c? fuscous, not 

 large. 



Forewing with costa slightly arched proximally and distally, straight between, 

 apex round-pointed, termen curved, oblique ; green, the colour formed of a rippling 

 of dentate green lines on a whitish greeu ground, the markings fuscous ; basal 

 area somewhat irrorated with fuscous, bounded by an irregular, double, anteriorly 

 outbent line ; median fascia indicated by two pairs of dentate lines and accumulated 

 fuscous central irroration, especially from discal mark to fold ; breadth of the 

 fascia at costa about 4 mm., at hindmargin nearly 3 mm., its proximal edge rather 

 oblique outwards from costa to cell-fold and rather projecting inwards behind 

 submedian fold, its distal edge rather oblique outwards to before R', with a pair 

 of small teeth separated by R' and a second pair (blunter) by M', slightly inbent 

 at R^; cell-mark blackish, rather elongate; a pair of spots proximal to the 

 (obsolete) subterminal line, before and behind R^, a row of smaller intemenral spots 

 or dashes distally to the same ; terminal line marked by elongate spots at vein- 

 ends ; fringe pale, spotted with fuscous opposite the veins. Hindwing long for 



the genus, smooth-scaled, fuscous, with a slightly paler band beyond middle, 

 bounded proximally by a vague dark line. 



Both wings beneath similar to hindwing above. 



Transkei (Miss F. Barrett), in coll. Rothschild, coll. Brit. Mus. et coll. 

 L. B. Prout ; type in the first-named collection. 



