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Underside more suffused, strongly glossy brown-grey, the fore wing with 
a vague dark line indicating the distal edge of the median band and a vague 
whitish band beyond, the hind wing with corresponding (but more proximally 
placed and much sharper) markings ; both wings also with slender whitish line 
near the termen, sometimes diffusely bounded distally. 
Natal: Estcourt. Type in coll. Janse. 
Near perizomoides Prout, but larger, greyer, the hind wing less devoid of 
markings, the underside different, etc. The abdomen is unfortunately lost in 
the type, but I have been able to supplement my description from a specimen 
in my collection, without locality label, sent me some years ago by the Natal 
Museum. 
29. Eupithecia laticallis sp. nov. (PI. I, fig. 2). 
22-23 mm. Face light brown, with a narrow band of dark scaling above; 
vertex more whitish. Palpus scarcely i|; light brown. Antennal ciliation 
short (less than ^). Thorax above light brown, with some whitish admixture, 
a blackish patch in front and ill-defined scattered blackish spots. Abdomen 
above much chequered, the ground-colour light brown (at base whitish), the 
crest on 2nd somite rather bright brown, the tips of the other crests blackish, 
followed immediately by white spots, a subdorsal pattern of ill-defined blackish 
spots, those on the first two somites larger and blacker. Body beneath mostly 
pale. Legs on the inner side partly infuscated, with whitish dots at end of 
tibia and tarsal joints. 
Fore wing elongate; light brown with fine fuscous irroration, the veins 
(especially M) partly spotted with blackish; some slight hoary shading in 
proximal area, in cell and between cell-dot and postmedian; cell-dot small 
but sharp; the dark lines mostly not sharp, strongest and somewhat oblique 
inward from costa, strongly oblique outward to cell-fold or across R^, then 
approximately parallel with termen ; those which proximally bound the median 
area further with a sharp outward angle on the fold; the double line which 
distally bounds the median area sharply defined, slightly angulated outward 
behind the fold; a relatively broad clear band between these and the distal 
area; distal area somewhat darkened, especially in longitudinal bands between 
the veins; subterminal line whitish, broken into interneural dots or lunules, 
that on the fold slightly enlarged, slightly connected by a very fine curved 
line with the one in front of it, all of the series more or less blackish- 
edged proximally; termen with moderate blackish interneural dashes; fringe 
chequered. Hind wing somewhat elongate; paler, except at abdominal and 
distal margins; cell-dot minute or obsolescent; transverse dark lines rather 
thick and strong at abdominal margin, becoming weak (the proximal ones 
quite obsolete) anteriorly; subterminal line more continuous than on fore 
wing, dentate, but not very sharply defined. 
Fore wing beneath more smoky, with strong cell-dot, a few dark costal 
spots in central area and complete or nearly complete (but indistinct) post- 
median lines; shading in distal area vague. Hind wing dirty whitish, with 
rather large black cell-dot and fairly distinct lines — an antemedian, a rather 
thick postmedian near the cell-dot, a more interrupted line beyond this and 
a thick line or shade bounding the (slightly dark-shaded) distal area proximally. 
Cape Town, May 1912 (Lord Gladstone). Type in coll. Transvaal Museum. 
Paratype in coll. L. B, Prout. 
30. Eupithecia alhicristulata sp. nov. 
(3, 19 mm. Face and vertex dull cinnamon-rufous. Palpus about i|, dull 
fuscous, with some pale sprinkling. Antennal ciliation scarcely over Occiput 
