280 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIII. 1916. 



Subfamily GEOMETRINAE 

 17. Microligia luteitincta spec, no v. 



S ? , 30-34 mm. Larger than dolosa Warr. {Nov. Zool. iv. 125), palpus and 

 frontal tuft rather longer, $ antennal pectinations very slightly longer. Head and 

 body concolorous with wings. 



Forewing very pale yellow or ochreous, the irroration generally slighter than in 

 dolosa, much more uniform, never forming patches or streaks between the veins ; 

 no markings except the oblique grey apical dash, which is rather variable in length 

 and strength, occasionally almost obsolete. Hindwing uniform pure white. 



Forewing beneath variable ; uniform dirty whitish or (except posteriorly to M 

 and M 2 ) smoky ; in the former case sometimes with the oblique dark dash repro- 

 duced, in the latter with an oblique pale streak posteriorly to the position of the 

 dash ; in one aberration, SC is marked with a fuscous line. Hindwing beneath 

 white, slightly less pure than above. 



Cape Colony : Harding, January 1903 (Mrs. Blakeway), type in coll. Brit. 

 Mus. ; Grahanistown, October 1902 (Miss M. Daly), etc. 



18. Drepanogynis strigulosa spec, no v. 



S, 32 mm. Head and body concolorous with wings. Palpus with third joint 

 moderate, exposed. Abdomen not very slender. 



Forewing shaped as in the group of ckromatina Prout {Ann. Trans. Mus. iii. 

 212), to which group in all respects the species belongs ; R 2 arising before the 

 middle of the discocellulars ; as far as the postmedian line pale fleshy-ochreous 

 with rufous suffusions, densely strigulated, especially in the median area, with 

 olivaceous grey ; lines darker grey, thick, cloudy ; antemedian from one-third costa 

 to one-third hindmargin, forming a deep outward curve ; postmedian at costa 2 mm. 

 from apex, at hindmargin less than 2 mm. from tornns, forming a very gentle 

 inward curve between R 2 and hindmargin ; cell-dot small, blackish ; distal area 



whiter, with sparser strigulation ; fringe again of the prevailing tone. Hindwing 



whitish in costal region, the rest more as on forewing, but duller; cell-dot small, 

 not sharp ; postmedian line dark, but not sharply defined, double, commencing at 

 R 1 and terminating at hindmargin close to tornus, forming a gentle inward curve. 



Both wings beneath whitish, with fleshy suffusions, the hindmargin of fore- 

 wing and the distal area (especially of forewing) remaining whiter ; strigulation 

 rather weaker than above ; lines weak ; cell-dot of hindwing sharp. 



Cape Colony: Deelfontein, March 6, 1902 (Colonel Sloggett). Type in coll. 

 Brit. Mus. A second example, with the ground-colour rather deeper ochreous, from 

 Praserburg, April 1885 (E. G. Alston). 



19. Drepanogynis monas spec. nov. 



S , 46 mm. Nearest to incondita Warr. (Nov. Zool. xi. 4T6, as Dyscia), larger, 

 face tufted, antennal pectinations not quite so extreme in length, fillet between 

 antennae white. 



Forewing with termen rather more gibbons than in incondita, dark irroration 

 less dense, postmedian line rather farther from termen, not crenulate, very finely 



pale-edged distally, terminal line wanting. Hindwing concolorous, cell-dot 



obsolete above and beneath, postmedian line formed and placed nearly as on 

 forewing. 





