LOXOFIDONIA; PSEUDOCHES1A8; EFIRRHOE. By L. B. Frout. 
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14. Genus: lioxofifloiiia Pack. 
Characters of Xanthorhoe, but with the areole undivided. A similar range of variation obtains in re¬ 
spect of the length of the palpus and of the pectinations of the d antenna. In the ty])e species, L. acidaliafa 
Pack, from Colorado, both are rather long. The genus is a small one, but known from Africa, India, China, 
■ Japan, Formosa and New Zealand. Probably it has been independently evolved from different sections of 
Xanthorhoe and perhaps from Ortholitha. 
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L. ( ?) bergeri Gaede. On a brief examination of the type of this species, a $ from Kitumu, 8. Kenya, ijeryeri. 
(described as Eupithecial) I took it to be a rather darker, less glossy, race or close relative of explanata, but 
I cannot feel sure that it may not prove to be an Epirrhoe antenna simple), near edelsfeni Prout. “23 mm” 
(tip to tip). Forewings with basal area grey brown; from costa to % inner margin a lighter brown band; 
a second, wavy, from % costa to % inner margin, with a projection behind vein 5, culminating in cellule 3; 
median area somewhat brown, containing one inner and two outer darker lines; cell-spot small; distal area in 
anterior half somewhat darker, with an oblique light subapical streak, the twin spots at the radials small, 
black. Hindwing grey-brown, without cell-dot; 2 faint dark lines, the postmedian light band more distinct. 
Underside with both cell-dots sharp, light band distinct. 
L. explanata Walk. (= coarctata Walk., euboliata Walk., pallidata Walk.) (10 d). In the glossy fore- explanata. 
wing, weakly marked hindwing and to some extent the shape of the latter rather like some Ortholitha, but 
easily known by its venation. Both wings beneath sharply marked. 8outh Africa, common in Cape Colony 
and extending northward through Nyasaland to the north end of the lake (Kondeland). 
L. sylvicultrix Wllgrn. I have not seen the type, a $ from “E. Caffraria.” “Wings above ferruginoiis- sylvlculirix. 
tinted, cell-dot fuscous, a common sinuous line white, another at the distal margin black; forewing at distal 
margin infuscated, with an ill-defined spot and waved subterminal line, c\it short posteriorly, whitish; both 
wings beneath whitish, in fuscated, with a sinuous band beyond the middle, a cell-dot and the outer margin 
fuscous.“ The detailed description which follows fits so accurately to exp)lanata that I suspect it may have to 
sink, though the absence of apical dash and the more fuscous-marked iinderside may point to a link with the 
following species. 
L. mermera n. (10 d). Forewdng shaped as in explanata and with similar gloss; darker, the median mermera. 
area without the reddish tone, the oblique pale apical dash virtually wanting, proximal boundary-line of median 
band not sharp, the median band little narrower at hindmargin than at costa (but so, too, in a few explanata), 
scarcely pale in middle (also a variable character in explanata), the white distal boundary-line rather noticeably 
denticulate near costa, otherwise as in normal explanata. Hindwing, especially in the (J, with the termen ap¬ 
preciably more subcrenulate between the 1st radial and the 1st median than in explanata; postmedian line 
much less bent, at costa well proximal to the hinder end of that of forewing, at radial fold more than twice 
(in ^ 3 times) as far from the termen as from the cell-spot. Underside with subterminal band heavy, much less 
reddish than in explanata. Fretoria and Fretoria North, type in the Transvaal Museum. Can hardly be a form 
of explanata, as the pectinations seem a trifle shorter, indeed they almost certainly commence so, but most 
of the critical ones are curved in sxich a way as to preclude exact measurement. 
L. alticola Anriv. (10 d). Much smaller than the rest, each joint of the d' antenna bearing 2 pairs of alticula. 
pectinations; retinaculum of (J very loosely formed, though I do not agree with Aurivillius that it is actually 
“wanting”. Variable in size, also in the colour of the band (reddish brown or fuscous), but not likely to be 
confused with any other knowm species. Underside wdth somewdiat macidar distal area, recalling that of Epirrhoe 
snhmactdata. Fernando Fo, at 3000 feet and upwards. 
15. Genus: Piseiiilocliesias Prout 
This genus, recently erected for the single species, neddaria, which Sivinhoe quite erroneously placed 
in Chesias, bears about the same relation to Ejhrrhoe as Ortholitha to Xanthorhoe, differing chiefly in its elongate 
wdngs and glossy scaling. 
Ps. neddaria Sioinh. (10 d). Recognizable at a glance by its pecrdiar markings, as well as by its shape neddaria. 
and structure. Only know'n from Kenya Colony. 
16. Genus: Epirrhoe Hhn. 
Characters of Loxofidonia but with simple, not pectinate, d antenna. From Mimoclystia it differs in 
the almost straight and oblique, not biangulate, discocellulars of the hindwing, with the 2nd radial arising at 
the cell-fold or even in front thereof. Erected for Falaearctic species, this genus of perhaps 30 species has been 
