NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAB XXIII. 1916. 183 



69. Eupithecia coetulata sp. nov. 



<$, 24 mm.; ?, 28 mm. Face with slender, pointed tuft below. Palpus 

 strong, rough-scaled, about twice as long as diameter of eye. Antenna of <$ nearly 

 simple. Head and body mostly white ; abdomen with some ferruginous and 

 fuscous admixture dorsally ; foreleg above blackish, the tibia and tarsus broadly 

 white-spotted. 



Forewing elongate, termen long, strongly oblique, slightly curved, tornus 

 weak, hindmargin slightly curved ; rather glossy, white, with mostly weak fuscous 

 irroration ; markings fuscous mixed with black ; basal patch scarcely darkened, 

 except an ill-defined costal spot at or beyond one-fifth ; a costal spot (ferru- 

 ginous-mixed) at two-fifths or beyond, from which is traceable across the wing a 

 slight, curved antemedian band or double line to hindmargin beyond one-third ; 

 postmedian line expressed by a strong dark costal mark at about three-fifths, 

 running rather obliquely inwards to SC 5 , three large, partially confluent spots on 

 the radials more distally placed (not so oblique as termen), a dot on M 1 , slighter 

 traces posteriorly, a mark at hindmargin near tornus ; some vein-dots a short 

 distance beyond (distally to) these markings ; a conspicuous double spot (costal 

 and subcostal, longitudinally extended, SO and SO 5 here ferruginous) near apex, 

 followed by a row of small vein-dots and a more distally placed, more irregular 

 row of interneural dots, those between the radials enlarged ; radials here and 

 to termen ferruginous ; an oblique white dash from apex, indicated by darker 

 shading in front and behind, the latter continued to the radials at termen, but 

 feeble ; fringe ample, the proximal half strongly, the distal much more feebly 



dark-spotted opposite the veins. Hindwing with costa long, apex rather 



rounded, termen straight from E, 1 to M 1 , more rounded behind ; white, with about 

 seven lines of more or less confluent spots from abdominal margin to M and M 2 , 

 the strongest being a somewhat confluent pair at two-thirds or three-fourths ; 

 fringe as on forewing. 



Forewing beneath with costal margin strongly darkened from base to one- 

 fourth, a sharp discal dot, the broken postmedian band strong in anterior half, 

 the subapical costal spot still stronger than above. Hindwing beneath white, with 

 small discal dot and with three curved lines of vein-dots, the most proximal about 

 the middle of the wing, the second near it, weak or partly obsolete. 



Acopampa, S. Peru, 11,500 ft., January — March 1910. Type in coll. 

 L. B. Prout. 



Perhaps a form of candidate/, Warr. {Nov. Zool. xiv. 250), which is rather 

 narrower winged and with less markings. 



70. Eupithecia bicubitata sp. nov. 



? , 28 mm. Structure of the preceding, wings slightly narrower, especially the 

 hindwing, which has the tornus more rounded off. Head, body and legs pre- 

 dominantly dark fuscous, only a little mottled (the legs banded) with white or 

 whitish. Abdominal crests narrow, white. 



Forewing glossy, white, clouded over with greyish fuscous and irrorated with 

 darker fuscous, so that the ground-colour is scarcely noticeable except as white dots 

 or spots on the veins, slight mottlings in median area, a conspicuous oblique double 

 mark from costa to SC 5 distally to the median area, an oblong patch (intersected 

 by the wavy dark lines) from postmedian line nearly to termen between R 3 and 



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