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NEW SPECIES OE GE03IETBIDAE FROM THE 

 AETHIOPIAN REGION. 



By WILLIAM WARREN, M.A., F.E.S. 

 Subfamily ORTHOSTIXINAE. 



1. Cartaletis concolor spec. nov. 



Differs from C. monteironis Driice in being paler ; a very pale straw-colour, 

 •without any rcdilish tint ; the ])ale blotches of forewing and spots of hindwing in 

 the marginal areas are concolorons with the ground-colour, not bright white. 



The nuderside of abdomen is of the same pale straw-yellow as the wings, 

 instead of dull orange, as in monteironis. 



Expanse of wings : .5'2 mm. 



1 (?, 1 ? from Zululand, October I'.JOl. 



Subfamily GEOMETRINAE. 

 -'. Nemoria dorsicristata spec. nov. 



Forewing : dull grey-green, the marginal area somewhat paler ; cell-spot 

 rather large, dull blackish ; outer line darker grey-green, thick, below the middle 

 edged with shining whitish, from three-fourths of costa to four-fifths of inner 

 margin, oblique outwards to vein 6, there bluntly bent, and obliquely waved 

 inwards ; a very obscure dark curved shade at one-third ; fringe paler, like the 

 margin. 



Hindicinff : similar, the postmedian line white-bordered throughout. 



Underside uniform whitish green. 



Face and thorax green like the wings ; vertex eleeper green ; abdomen paler, 

 the third and fourth dorsal segments marked with partially raised black scales 

 edged with reddish ; palpi pale with darker tips ; fillet and antennae snow-white ; 

 legs and underside of abdomen pale ; forelegs in front rosy tinged. 



Exjianse of wings : :i2 mm. 



I S from Durban, Natal (G. F. Leigh). 



3. Syndromodes delicata spec. nov. 



Forewing : pale bluish green ; the costal edge white ; first line curved at 

 one-third ; second sinuous from three-fourths of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, 

 but both marked only by white, sometimes obscure, spots on veins ; traces of a 

 similar snbmarginal line ; cell-spot small, white ; marginal line fine, dark brown, 

 widely interrupted by large white spots at the vein-ends, which are followed by 

 subquadrate grey spots in the pure white fringe. 



Iliruhciny : similar, without first line. 



Underside uniform pale green ; the costa of forewing whitish. 



