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a subbasal slightly curved band, distinct as a large spot at costa , one in 
middle and one at posterior margin, vague between ; a broader (1 mm.), 
but also in places vague band marking the commencement of the median 
area, narrowest but darkest on the margins ; a large spot on costa and a 
nearly obsolete dentate line (accentuated only by blackish marks on the 
veins running proximal from the teeth of the line) marking the end of the 
median area ; a double whitish mark on costa beyond (the beginning of 
a postmedian pale band) ; a rust-coloured cloud between the radials, 
commencing at the end of cell and fading out just before the subterminal 
line ; some slighter rust-coloured shading at costa, and between sub- 
terminal line and termen except at apex ; subtenninal line white, forming 
a W on a dark apical cloud (sharp teeth basewards on SC 4 and SC 5 ), then 
parallel with termen to M 1 , toothed basewards on medians but subobsolete, 
finally thick and curving to tornus, running out as a white mark across 
tornal fringe ; terminal line black, interrupted by white spots at vein-ends ; 
fringe pale grey, blackish at apex and dark-spotted opposite veins. Hind- 
wing whitish grey, almost unmarked ; a weak discal spot ; a slight 
darkening in distal one-third ; terminal line and fringe nearly as on fore- 
wing but less strongly marked. Under surface of forewing with a black 
cell- spot, which is obsolete above ; otherwise only marked at costa, where 
the median area shows a succession of four quadrate blackish spots 
alternating with three pale ones and the postmedian area the beginning 
of the pale, dark- divided line, and dis tally, where a darkish suffusion 
renders visible from costa to M 1 a lunulate-dentate pale sub terminal line. 
Under surface of hindwing with elongate cell-spot, weak, interrupted 
antemedian and median lines (the latter just distally to the cell-spot, 
touching its posterior end) and a weak curved band parallel to termen, 
accompanied proximally by an elongate fuscous stroke on each vein. 
Haenertsburg, 8th December, 1909 (C. J. Swierstra). Type in coll. 
Transvaal Museum. 
Eupithecia brachyptera, n. sp. (PI. XII, Fig. 8). 
§, 17 mm. Face grey, mixed with black. Palpus mostly black, 
base beneath pale. Vertex greyish fuscous. Thorax and abdomen greyish 
fuscous above, thorax darkened anteriorly, abdomen belted with blackish, 
crests strongly developed. 
Forewing relatively short and broad, termen moderately curved, not 
very oblique anteriorly ; grey, faintly tinged with reddish ochreous, and 
traversed by indistinct darker grey lines ; subbasal line angled in middle 
(intermediate ones somewhat rubbed) ; the one which crosses the cell-spot 
and the next three (completing the median area) sharply outangled in cell ; 
cell-spot rather large, black ; the pale, bisected band distally to median 
area becoming faint in anterior part of wing, its distal half throughout 
concolorous with its proximal ; subterminal line whitish, dentate ; terminal 
line rather thick, black, narrowly interrupted by pale spots at vein-ends ; 
fringe pale grey, with large darker spots in proximal half at vein-ends. 
Hindwing paler, especially at costa, with weak traces of about six wavy 
darker lines ; cell-spot obsolete. Under surface of fore wing lighter than 
upper, costal edge fuscous at base, pale spotted with fuscous in middle ; 
