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of costa to anal angle, slightly curved; a short fnscous ochreous discocellular 

 streak ; marginal line black : fringe white. 



Ilindirings : with only two lines, less strongly marked ; first from below 

 costa before middle, bent above vein 2 nearly at right angles, to inner margin ; 

 second from three-fotirths of costa, curved towards tail, before which it is also 

 bent round to inner margin close above anal angle, where it ends in a grey spot ; 

 marginal line black, stopjiing short at base of tail on each side ; tail with two 

 black spots, preceded by some ochreous fnscous strigae, black-margined between 

 the spots ; extremity of tail recurved towards inner margin, not pointing outwards 

 as in the rest of the genus. 



Underside of forewings with the costal black spots, and several scattered lilack 

 specks towards apex ; discocellular mark fuscous; the lines only showing through. 

 Hindwings with the outer line fuscous ; the marginal dark line present in both 

 wings. Head, thorax, and abdomen white ; face with a black bar at toj) ; tarsi 

 black and white. 



Expanse of wings : 56 mm. 



One ? from Melindi, British East Africa, January 1892. 



Family El'IPLEMIDAE. 



11. Epiplema illiturata sp. nov. 



Fore/cim/s : white : the costa specked with black on basal half ; first line 

 indicated only by slight specks on subcostal, in the cell, and on submedian fold ; 

 onter line at two-thirds, strongly outcurved in middle of wing, indicated by a few 

 fuscous spots marked with fine black atoms ; a spot of intense black atoms at anal 

 angle ; fringe white. 



Hindwings : with an interrupted basal line, a double interrupted ])0stme(lian, 

 and a submarginal formed of pale ochreous patches, that before lower tooth marked 

 with scattered black scales, with a fine black line to anal angle: a faint interrupted 

 marginal line. 



Underside white ; costa of forewings discoloured with ochreous and grey : paljii 

 blackish ; face black-brown above, greyer below ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen 

 white. 



Exjjanse of wings : 26 mm. 



1 c? from Northdene, Natal. 



Forewing with hiudmargin simply curved ; hindwing with a tooth at veins 

 4 and 6. 



Family GEOMETRIDAE. 



Subfamily OENOCHROMINAE. 



12. Arhodia obtusata. 



Monoctenia obtHsata Wlk., XXI. p. 27U (V ). 



Monoctenia obtusata Meyr., Pr. Linn. Soc. S.S. IT. ISOt) (II. 4j, p. 12(1T (?). 

 Monoctenia himeroides Wlk., XXI. j). 279 ( ? ). 



The antennae of the S , which sex Meyrick had not seen, are bipectinatcd, and 

 the species must be transferred to Arhodia. 



