Puhl. 26.1X.193S. EPICLETA; LYCAUCJIDIA; PSEUDOSTERRHA. By L. B. Prokt. 
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gal), with the suhterminal band ap[)arent]y rather more sinuous, pei'haps represent still another species in 
this group. 
S. malescripta Warr. Forewing of the $ shaped and coloured about as in jylloidaria (7 1) but much lunlcucrliiln. 
more weakly marked, without the highly oblique postmedian line; hindwing better rounded than in fyUoi- 
daria, less narrow than in Imchanani, also weakly marked, excepting the dark s])ot at the hinder end of 
the subterminal band, the ground-colour little whiter proximally than distally. - nigrosticta IParr. (7 1), h'kj rod tela. 
which is almost certainly the ^ of malescripta , has the forewing less long and pointed, the tone scarcely so 
reddish, the cell-dots and dots at base of fringe strong, generally also a rather broad and cons])icuous ])ale 
subterminal line. Both types were from Natal. — benescripta Prout, founded on a from Rikalla, Portu- heitcscr'ijiln. 
guese East Africa, is perhaps a mere aberration, perhaps a separate sjiecies; rather ])aler than nigrosticta, 
lines of up])erside more strongly developed, not thickened at costa of forewing, median line of both wings 
finer, cell-dots obsolete, proximal subtermiral shade broader, rather more distally ])laced. 
S. subterfundata Prout (7 1) is larger and paler than malescripta, with the postmedian line better mihtcrjnn- 
developed (less oblique than in jylloidaria), the blotch at the anal angle of the hindwing beneath less deve- dota. 
loped, etc. Southern Rhodesia; PTmvuma. 
S. lycaugidia Prout (7 m). 14—18 mm. In shape and general aspect, as well as in having the costal lycaiujidin. 
vein of the hindwing anastomasing with the proximal half (or more) of the cell, evidently related to lilli- 
pmtaria; antennal joints projecting, with paired fascicles of cilia, hindtarsus long. On an average larger 
than the two following, more Zygophyxia-Vike, the postmedian line of the forewing very oblique, hindwing only 
with cell-dot and a weak line beyond. Madagascar: Diego Suarez. 
S. sympractor Prout (7 1), from the same source, ex])ands 13 -15 mm and is still nearer to lilUputaria sympractor. 
in shape and markings, but somewhat browner, with stronger grey irroration or suffusions, the lines com¬ 
mencing from black costal s])ots. ^ ciliation I'ather short, hindtarsus about til)ia. Venation as in lilli- 
putaria. 
S. lilliputaria Warr. (7 m). Hindtibia of rough, tarsus very short, antennal ciliation decidedly rdlijiuhtria. 
short. Cell-dots obsolescent, lines nearly jrarallel with distal margin, variable in breadth. Angola (type), Nyasa, 
Tanganyika Territory and Transvaal. 
26. Genus: Prout. 
A develo]unent of Sterrha, or possibly Cleta, with the 1st srdicostal of the forewing free and only two 
others present, the 2nd being presumably coincident with the 3rd, the 4th with the 5th. Tongue slight. 
Antennal ciliation of long. Hindleg of aborted, without spurs. Hindwing with 2nd subcostal long-stalked. 
Only one s])ecies known. 
E. calidaria Prout (8 I). Curiously like S. jatvmata Stgr. or — in its warmer colouring — a tiny calidaria. 
sharply-lined exilaria Ouen. (see Vol. 4, ])1. 4 c), the 2nd and 3rd lines of the forewing almost straight, arising 
from blacker dots on costa, the subterminal band not shar'i)ly defined, its distal boundary sinuous. TTanskei, 
Cape Colony, only 3 known to me, all (J. 
27. Genus: Ilmp.sn. 
Palpus minute. Tongue short and slender. Antenna of pectinate, with long branches. Hindleg 
not aborted, the tibia of the with 1 s])ur (constant ?), in the $ with 2. Wings long and narrow; fore¬ 
wing with doulde areole, 1st discocellular well developed; hindwing with costal anastomosing to beyond 
middle of cell, 2nd subcostal shoidly stalked. Only one species, which is local (the ^ extraordinarily scarce) 
in India and E. Africa. 
L. albatus Swinh. (7 m). An inconspicuous but easily recognized species, apparently not variable. The alhahis 
longer cells, different siibcostal venation of foreving and especially the structure of the head distinguish it 
from the narrowest-winged African Eupithecia, although it was formerly su])])osed to belong to the same sidi- 
family; cells not quite so long as in Zygophyxia, venation of hindwing qiute different. Known from some 
localities in Kenya Colony and the Transvaal. 
28. Genus: Pseinlosterrlia Warr. 
This little-studied genus, like the preceding and following, shoidd almost certainly be ti’ansferred 
to the Sterrhinae, notwithstanding that the costal vein of the hindwing anastomoses strongly with the 
cell (about as in Rlwdometra). Except in this character, it suggests the possibility of a quite near relation- 
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