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paler (but with fuscous speckling) in middle of wings, especially in cell 
and between radials ; costal edge fuscous ; discal spot nearly as long as 
DC 2 " 3 , not very thick ; antemedian lines nearly obsolete, traceable from 
posterior margin to near cell as two thick lines of slightly darker red-brown 
than the ground, placed at about two-fifths ; postmedian indicated by 
slight dark shading before a pale line which, commencing at costa just 
beyond two-thirds, bends sharply outwards from SC 5 to R 1 , is right-angled 
on R 1 and thence runs nearly parallel with termen ; a pale, somewhat 
interrupted line runs obliquely from below apex, touches the pale post- 
median at about R 3 , and thence runs close beside it (separated only by a 
fine weak line) to the posterior margin ; an indistinct slender pale sub- 
terminal line ; terminal line blackish, interrupted at vein-ends, followed 
by a pale line at base of fringe ; proximal part of fringe otherwise dark 
greyish, distal part slightly paler. Hindwing rather narrow, whitish 
grey, mixed with ferruginous and fuscous in abdominal and distal areas ; 
a subterminal line consisting of large confluent dark spots on the veins ; 
indications of a cell-spot and curved median line (the latter thicker and 
more distinct in a cotype) ; terminal line and fringe as on fore wing. 
Underside of both wings whitish grey, the forewing except at inner margin 
dark-suffused as far as the postmedian line ; forewing with a double whitish 
postmedian line and whitish terminal band (broadest costally), these 
separated by a narrow fuscous band, discal spot distinct ; hindwing with 
distinct discal spot, two thick but rather weak lines proximally thereto, 
two thick and strong (composed of confluent large spots) distally, and a 
fine, weak, interrupted line between these latter. 
Haenertsburg, December, 1909 (C. J. Swierstra). Type (9th Decem- 
ber) in coll. L. B. Prout ; cotypes in coll. L. B. Prout and Transvaal Museum. 
Perhaps related to regulosa Warr. (Novit. Zool., ix, 512), from British 
East Africa. The sharply marked underside is characteristic. 
Eupithecia atomaria, Warr. (PL XII, Fig. 33). 
The figure was prepared, and a description added, under the impression 
that this was a distinct species, or at least a local race. It may yet prove 
to be the latter, as all the Transvaal examples I have seen are rather smaller, 
lighter and weaker-marked than Warren’s type. But as I have not yet 
seen further material from British East Africa, whence Warren (Novit. 
Zool., ix, 510) described it, and the same author (ibid, xii, 392) mentions 
also a lighter (but larger) example from the Ivory Coast, I think it better 
to suppress the new name until comparisons have been made, and merely 
record that the figured specimen is from Haenertsburg, December, 1909. 
Eupithecia rubiginifem , n. sp. (PI. XII, Fig. 26.). 
2, 21 mm. Head and body whitish grey, slightly tinged with ochreous, 
more or less strongly irrorated with blackish fuscous, base of abdomen 
whitish grey. Legs more or less blackish above, ringed with white at the 
ends of the joints. 
Wings normally shaped. Forewing whitish grey irrorated with 
fuscous, the markings dark fuscous ; a small basal patch, strongest costally ; 
