566 Colonel C. Swinhoe on the Geomctrida^ of 



PSEUDOSTERRHA SACEARIA. 



Phaliena {Geometra) sacraria, Linn., Syst. Nat., i. (2), 863, 

 220 (1759). 



2 ^, 2 ?, Eb Uirn, Brit. E. Africa. 1 $, Port Ugowe 

 {H. H. Johnston). 1 $, Munisn. 1 ^, Kikuyu. 



PsEUDOSTERRHA LUCIDARIA, liOV. 



(;J , $ . Antennge of male with a black shaft and pale ochreous- 

 brown pectinations, of the female ochreous ; palpi brown ; head and 

 fore-wings yellow ; pectus, frons, collar, costa of fore-wings, cilia, cell 

 spot, a straight band from apex to vein la, above the middle of the 

 hinder margin, and then along the vein to near the base, bright 

 pink ; in the female these colours are dull and paler, and the wing 

 is more or less suffused with dull pale pink, leaving the veins and 

 hinder margin yellow; hind-wings and abdomen white, slightly 

 tinged with yellow ; under-side whitish, costa and cilia bright pink, 

 discal band brown. 



Expanse of wings H inches. 



1^,3$, Machakos {Crawshay). 



Genus Philereme, Hlibn., A^erz., p. 331 (1818). 



Scotosia, Steph., 111. Brit. Ent. Haust., iii, p, 259 



(1829). 



Philereme rubritincta. 



Scotosia rulritinda, Hmpsn., Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, p. 38 

 (1899). 



2 $, Munisu, Brit. E. Africa. 1 $, Eb Urru. 3 ^, 4 $, 

 Sokotra, including the type. 



Genus Plerocymia, Hlibn., Verz., p. 329 (1818). 

 Plerocymia monosticta. 



Ortholitha monosticta, Butler, P. Z, S., 1894, p. 592, pi. 37, 



f. 9. 

 Plerocymia nigrocellata, Warr., Nov. Zool., iv, p. 236, pi. 5, 



f. 6 (1897). 



4 $, Brit. E. Africa {Gregory), including the type. 2 $, 

 5 $, Kikuyu, Machakos to Neugia. 2 $, Ngong, Machakos 

 to Neugia. 1 $, Eb Urru. 2 $, Abyssinia. 



Warren's types from Nandi, Uganda Protectorate, are 

 in coll. Rothschild. 



