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olive-fuscons waved shades, enclosing the pale submarginal line ; some irregular 

 dark marginal spots ; fringe concolorous, chequered with fuscous. 



Bimhcings : with all the lines obscured b}- the denser fuscous dusting. 



Underside rufous oclireous, without dusting. Face and palpi brown-black ; 

 vertex, thorax, and abdomen like wings, thickl}' dusted with darker. 



Expanse of wings : 18 mm. 



One (? from Weenen, Natal. 



Subfamily HYDRIOMENINAE. 



Epirrhoe prasinaria Warr. 



Among the insects sent by the late W. Doherty from the Kikuyu Escarpment, 

 British East Africa, was a long series (over eighty) apparently belonging to this 

 species, which was described by me (Nov. Zool. ix. p. 13) from a single ? from 

 Mamba, Kilimanjaro. They vary very little iiit-:'/- se, the only exceptions being two 

 or three cases in which the central fascia is filled up with reddish brown instead 

 of green ; and I mention them here mainly to draw attention to the points in which 

 they differ from the species next described. The green ground-colour is never pure, 

 but varied with darker grey-green scaling ; the cell-spot of forewings is small and 

 dark ; the hindwings pale grey, with scarcely any rufous tinge (herein differing 

 somewhat from the type) ; and the underside of both wings is always marked by 

 a more or less distinct grey marginal border preceded by a paler band. On the 

 average they are slightly larger than the original type, expanding 28 mm. They 

 were taken between October 1900 and April 1901. 



6. Epirrhoe subrufaria spec. nov. 



Forewings : pale green, with slightly deeper green speckling, rarely with 

 darkei- grey scaling ; markings much as in E. prasinaria, but the edges of the 

 basal patch and central fascia more vertical and more strongly marked, often 

 blackish ; the central fascia always narrower, and the cell-spot larger, in many cases 

 swollen by the aggregation of dark scales into a blotch. 



Uimhcings : pale, whitish, always with a rufous tint, and without markings. 



Underside pale greenish grey in forewings, with the markings of npperside 

 partly shown towards costa ; in the hindwings always strongly tinged with rufous ; 

 lioth wings s])eckled with grey. 



Of this species several varieties occur ; one in which both basal jiatch and 

 central fascia are tilled nj) with purplish grey or rufous brown; a second in which 

 the marginal area and the band between basal ])atch and central fascia are rufous ; 

 a third in wliich the upper part of the central fascia is filled up with blackish 

 green ; and again a fourth which shows the middle of the central fascia crossed 

 vertically from costa to inner margin by a broad, diffuse, smoky dark shade. 



Exj)anse of wings : 24 mm. 



More than thirty examples, taken, like those of I'J. prasinaria, at tlie Kikuyu 

 Escarjuuent, between October 1900 and April 1901. 



Distinguished by the paler green ground-colour and smaller size, the narrower 

 central fascia of forewings, and the reddish tint of hindwings beneath. 



