EULOCASTRA. By M. (Uede. 
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P. rufigrisea Hmps. (15 c). Body and wings light greyish ochreons. Interior line white, edged brown nifHirisra. 
on both sides, dentate. Ring-macula in a fine M'hite ring, A\itli a black streak below. Reniform macula white, 
edged, with brown, with a black streak below. Traces of a median line from the costal inargin to the inner 
margin. Exterior line very indistinctly double, filled with yellowish-white, obliquely outwards as far as vein 
6, then parallel with the distal margin. Submarginal line yellowish white, edged red-brown on both sides. 16 mm. 
East Africa. 
P. decolora Rhl. Body and forewing greyish brown. Interior line black, fine, edged white inside, some- (irroinra. 
what convex in the middle. Cross-vein fine dark. Exterior line black, oblique, fine. The median area before it 
darker brown. Hindwing pale reddish brown, fringe light. mm. Sokotra. 
P. polysticta Hmps. (15 c). Body and. forewing light ochreons brown. Interior line scarcely traceable, volij.sticla. 
from the costal margin obliquely to the submedian fold, where a black dot is situate, then inwards to the inner 
margin, likewise with a black dot. A very oblique brown streak at the centre of the costal margin, a dot at the 
cross-vein. Exterior line of brown dots, very convex at the costal margin. A black dot more inwards in the 
submedian fold. Hindwing brownish white. 16 mm. Gold. Coast. 
P. ochrocraspis Hmps. (15 c). Body and forewing violettish brown, except at the yellowish brown inner ochrof-ros- 
margin. Hindwing pale ochreoiis, darker brown at the margin. Fringes of both wings yellowish. $ 14 mm. 
Transvaal. 
P. ecrufa Hmps. Body and forewing pale brown. Median line indistinct, dark, obliquely inwards from crruja. 
the cell to vein 1, edged white inside. Then a dark band or 2 spots before the exterior line which is in¬ 
distinct, fine dark, convex from the costal margin to the lower cell-angle, then concave, edged white outside, 
broadly edged Avith broAAui on both sides. Hind.AA'ing broAA'iiish white, reddish broAvn at the margin. $ 16 mm. 
Cape Colony. 
53. Genus: £iilocsistra Btlr. 
Proboscis normal, palpi highly erected, anteimae of (3 someAA'hat laminated. Body tixftless. Veins 
3—5 of foreAA’ing from the loAA'er cell-angle, 6 from the xipjxer one, areole normal. Hindwing; \mins o-f4 stalked 
or from the same base. Type: fasciata Btlr. from Axistralia. Half of the 30 species knoAvn occur in Africa. 
1. Veins 3-f 4 of hindwing stalked. 
E. pallida Hmps. Body and forewing pale red-l)roAvn, the costal margin dai-ker red-brown. The median pallida. 
area with black dots at the costal margin and in the sidxmedian fold. Exterior line fine, pale red-brown, with 
black dots beloAV the costal margin, extra-angular below the costal margin and. in the middle. HindAving Avhitisli 
broAvn. (^18 mm. East Africa. 
E. ochrizona Hmps. (15 c). Body and AAings dark broAvn. A yelloAA'ish Avhite broad, interior band AA'ith ochrizona. 
a dark dot in it at the costal margin. Traces of an oblicpue red-broA\'n line from the costal margin behind the 
middle to the anal angle. A yelloAA'ish AA'hite spot behind it at the costal margin. A submarginal line of yellovA’ish 
Avhite scales. Hindwing grey. $ 18 mm. Arabia. 
E. sudanensis Rhl. Body yelloAvish broAAii, abdomen somewhat darker. ForeAving yelloAvish broAvn sudancmU. 
AA'ith a blackish broAA'ii marking. Basal area spotted black at the costal margin. Median band blackish, broader 
at the inner margin, someAA'hat dentate on its inner side, its exterior edge extra-angxdar in the centre of the cell. 
Marginal area broadly blackish AA'ith a A^ery indistinct yelloAA' spot near the apex. HindAving dark broAA'nish 
grey. $ 14 mm. Sudan. 
E. sahariensis Rothsch. Body dark broAvn. The interior cpiarter of the foreAA'ing cinnamon broAvn, Avith saharicnsis. 
2 pale spots at the costal margin. The rest of the A\dng deep black, a creamy AA'hite s]iot in the cell, and tAAO 
similar ones at the cross-A^ein. Exterior band, cinnaxnon broAA'n, irregidar, submarginal creamy AA'hite spots 
behind it. HindAA'ing dark grey. The pale places are less distinct in the $. 17—2t) mm. Xorth Nigeria. 
E. pseudczarboides Rothsch. resembles a pale Pseud, opella. Thorax and foreAving reddish grey, clouded p.'^cudozar- 
yelloAA'ish, Avith a broad, black median band, AA'ith a distal branch at the median A^ein. Exterior line black, huuks. 
interrupted, AA'ith a spot at the costal margin. Marginal area broadly grey, except betAA'een A^eins 2 und 4, 
behind, it 4 black submarginal spots in the anterior part. Hind.Aving creamy grey. $ 20 mm. North Nigeria. 
E. melaena Hmps. Thorax and foreAA'ing blackish broAA'ii. A AA'hite interior band, almost A'ertical, some- mclacna. 
AA'hat AA'idened at the costal margin. Exterior line Idack, beginning AAuth a triangle at the costal margin, 
normally bent. A small AA'hite spot in the submedian fold and AA'hite dots close before the margin. HindAA'ing 
also dark. — In deniaculata Strd. the Avhite interior band is narroAA’er, the marginal dots are absent. — In dupli= dimaculaia. 
linea Strd. the AAdiite banc! is replaced, by a double black line. 18 mm. Sokotra. duphltnca. 
2. Veins 3 and. 4 of hind.AA'ing from the same base. 
E. tarachodes Hmps. Thorax and. foreAA'ing Avhitish ochreons. Interior line broAA'ii, slightly bent, ex- tarachodes. 
tending fTom a spot at the costal margin. Tavo black dots at the cross-vein AA'ith a broAA’ii and grey spot aboA'e 
them at the costal n'largin. Olive broAA'ii behind the cell, irrorated AA'ith bluish grey. Exterior line creamy AA'hite, 
very convex below the costal margin as far as vein 6, angular at vein 4, then finer, a AA'hite blotch at the 
