184 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIII. 1916. 



M 2 and a fine subterniinal line which becomes thick and curved between M 2 and 

 tornus ; a small blackish cell-dot ; numerous indistinct waved dark fuscous lines • 

 antemedian band apparently almost as in the preceding species ; postmedian 

 thickened and blackened between R 3 and M 2 ; a blackish mark behind M 2 between 

 postmedian and subterminal ; a somewhat interrupted blackish terminal line j 



fringe marked nearly as in coetulata, but altogether darker. Hindwing dirty 



whitish, suffused with greyish fuscous, inner-marginal region darker fuscous, more 

 strongly marked ; some feeble waved lines in proximal part ; cell-dot weak,, 

 postmedian line and the double pale band beyond not strong, at the radials strongly 

 curved ; subterminal line ill-defined ; terminal line and fringe nearly as on forewing,. 

 the fringe rather whiter. 



Forewing beneath more suffused throughout ; markings mostly weak, at 

 costa stronger ; cell-dot strong. Hindwing beneath more strongly marked than 

 above. 



Acopampa, S. Peru, 11,500 ft., February— March 1910 (H. and C. Watkins), 

 Type in coll. L. B. Prout. 



71. Eupithecia canonica sp. nov. 



<?, 26 mm. Head and body whitish grey, strongly mixed with dark fuscous j 

 underside, also base of abdomen above, whiter. Antennaalmost simple. Abdominal 

 crests scarcely noticeable. 



Forewing decidedly uarrower still than in the preceding, only 4'5 mm. wide 

 from the (rounded) tornus to midcosta ; violet-grey, with some dark fuscous 

 irroration and with some ferruginous-ochreous suffusions, namely : at base on SM* 

 and especially between M and costa ; on antemedian line, especially before M and 

 at SM 2 ; on radials and M 1 from postmedian line to cell, though strongest at 

 postmedian line ; and in an oblique pale patch from apex to postmediau line,, 

 especially on the veins ; cell-dot present, small ; antemedian line or band vague, 

 apparently as in coetulata ; postmedian weak, angularly broken near costa as in 

 coetulata; pale double band beyond narrow; subterminal line slender and very 

 indistinct, lunulate-dentate ; terminal line slightly interrupted ; fringe proximally 



whitish, dark-spotted opposite the veins. Hindwing narrow, dirty whitish, 



becoming greyer at distal margin ; abdominal margin greyer, with beginnings 

 of dark lines ; terminal line slightly interrupted ; fringe whitish, dark -spotted 

 opposite the veins. 



Forewing beneath rather uniformly suffused, very feebly marked. Hindwing 

 beneath dirty whitish, distally more broadly smoky than above ; a distinct cell-dot 

 and indistinct line beyond. 



Acopampa, S. Peru, 11,500 ft., January— March 1910 (H. and C. Watkins), 

 type in coll. L. B. Prout. A ? , rather larger and paler, with cell-dot on hindwing" 

 more distinct, in coll. Brit. Mus. 



72. Eupithecia parallaxis sp. nov. 



<$, 20-21 mm. Face slightly tufted below ; blackish. Palpus rather stout» 

 about one-and-a-half times the length of diameter of eye ; blackish. Antennal 

 ciliation longer than diameter of shaft, in slender pairs of fascicles. Vertex > 

 thorax and abdomen fuscous ; crests not very strong. 



