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Subfamily TEPHROCLYSTIINAB. 

 T. Tephroclystia bryophilaria spec. nov. 



Foreicinqs : pale whitish green, with the markings black or brown-black. 

 These are mnch the same as in Epirrhoc prasinaria and subrufaria, bnt in all 

 cases the band edging the basal patch, those edging the central fascia, and the 

 band preceding submarginal line, form four dark-edged more or less distinctly 

 triangular costal blotches ; as in the species above named, the central fascia is 

 sometimes filled np with rnfons brown or flesh-colour, or again, while the basal 

 patch and fascia remain green, the baud between them and the marginal area are 

 flesh-colour ; and in one case the lower half of central fascia is filled up with 

 brown-black scales ; sometimes the dark lines are distinct throughout, in other 

 cases the outer edge of central fascia and the submarginal shade are more or less 

 obsolescent ; the bands jH'eceding and following central fiiscia are traversed by a 

 waved deeper green line, which in the inner band often becomes a blackish spot 

 on inner margin ; cell-spot generally faint ; marginal spots black, in pairs at the end 

 of the veins ; fringe whitish, with strongly marked dark mottlings beyond veins. 



Hindidngs : pale grey, or almost whitish, with indications of cloudy grey 

 curved shades, median, postmediau, and submarginal ; cellspot, marginal spots, and 

 mottlings of the fringe, all much fainter. 



Underside greenish grey or greenish white, with the markings of forewings 

 shown. Head, thorax, and abdomen green, varied with darker ; the segmental 

 rings of abdomen dark. 



E.\pause of wings : 26 — 28 mm. 



Four c?c?, five ??, from the Kikuyu Escarpment, British East Africa, 

 January— April 1901 (W. Doherty). 



Taken along with E. prasinaria and subrufaria, from which they can be at 

 once separated by the black costal triangles ; the areole is single, not double. The 

 antennae of the S are strongly serrate- ciliate. 



8. Tephroclystia fumitacta spec. nov. 



Forewings : dull brownish green ; the markings darker ; the basal patch, 

 central fascia, and submarginal shade, much as in 7\ bri/opkilaria, but all more 

 or less obscured by a smoky suffusion ; the basal patch and central fascia both 

 darker, filled np with fuscous; the costa without black blotches; cell-spot dark ; 

 black marginal dots in pairs; the fringe dull greenish or brownish with darker 

 mottlings. 



Hindwings : dark smoky fuscous, with dark cell-spot and indistinct curved pale 

 submarginal band ; fringe pale with dark mottlings. 



Underside dull greenish cinereous, darker, more fuscous towards hindmargin ; 

 markings of uj>perside sometimes distinct on both wings, often obscured. Head, 

 thorax, and abdomen like wings. 



Exjianse of wings : 24 mm. 



Five S S, one ? , from the Kikuyu Escarpment, British East Africa, January — 

 March 190 1 (Doherty). 



Distinguished by the dull smoky tint of the hindwings. 



