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MIMOCLYSTIA. By L. B. Peout. 
cuth ygrant- 
ma. 
thermo- 
chroa. 
achaiina. 
edclsieni. 
submacu- 
laia. 
consors. 
rliodofinoa. 
ericinellac. 
tepescett'i. 
undulosata. 
depla nata. 
found to include a few from North America, a few from West China and the following stragglers in Africa; one 
from S. E. Brazil is more douhtfidly placed. 
E. euthygranima Prouf (10 d). Siifficiently characterized by the nearly straight median band of the 
forewing; the white apical dash seems constant, but the mid-terminal spot is sometimes obsolescent. N. Kivu, 
chiefly from the Birunga Volcanoes. A specimen from Ruwenzori possibly represents a different race, rather 
large, with hindwing unusually white; scarcely an ab. of tliermocliroa? 
E. thermochroa Hmimi. (10 e). Near euthygramma, the band still broader, less solid, the wing-pattern 
altogether more dissolved into lines, the coloration different, though the weakest-marked euthygramma some¬ 
what approach it. Ruwenzori: Mubuku Valley, 6000 feet, only the type ^ known. 
E. adiatina Prout (10 e). Smaller than thermochroa, less broad-winged, median band similarly coloured, 
less broad, its distal edge more sinuous. Hind wing rather long and narrow for an Einrrhoe, but I do not think 
it could be transferred to Pseudochesias. Basutoland (type) and Orange Free State; ? Nyasaland. 
E. edelsteni Prout (10 e). Browner and more uniformly coloured than achatina, more recalling Mimo- 
clystia undulosata though less reddish. Underside a little greyer and less uniform than iipper, the proximal 
and median areas showing more distinct alternations of dark and pale lines, the double, pale postmedian band 
also distinct. Orange Free State: Thaba’nchu. Also known from Bloemfontein, Deelfontein and (?) Bushman- 
land. 
E. submaculata Warr. (10 e). The broad median band shows a much stronger central projection than 
in either of the preceding, the underside bears rather conspicuous blackish maculation proximally to the sub¬ 
terminal, particularly a conspicuoiis blotch between the radials. Highlands of Kenya Colony. 
E. consors sp. n. (10 e). Darker than achatina, forewing with distal margin appreciably bent in the 
middle, the apical dash (esjiecially beneath) with dark clouding behind, the subterminal line more broken, 
with somewhat wedge-shaped mark between 3rd radial and 1st median; hindwing beneath with cell-dot en¬ 
larged, subterminal dark shade forming a blotch between the radials. Perhaps nearer to submaculata, especially 
beneath; somewhat more glossy, hindwing above more strongly marked, forevving more highly coloured, with 
quite different postmedian lines. Nairobi, June 1927 (D. M. Hopkins), 2 $$ in the Tring Museum. 
E. rhodopnoa Pront (10 e) has more the aspect of some Palaearctic Epirrhoe, the median band sharply 
contrasted with the extended whitish area beyond, on which stand costal and terminal marks much as iwgaliata 
Scliijf. but much more developed towards hind angle. A slight rosy flush and the posterior furcation or widening 
of the median band are characteristic. Madagascar. 
E. (?) ericinellac Auriv. Systematic position uncertain; face too obliquely sloping for a Hydrelia (in 
which genus it was described), too much roughened at lower edge, palpus too long and heavy (almost 2), areole 
larger, with both the 1st and the 5th subcostal arising well before its end. Thus agrees rvith the general characters 
of Epirrhoe though the hindwing is rather narrow and the habitus totally different. “15 mm.” (tiji to tip), 
bright yellow, almost gold-yellow, the forewing above with distal half dark red-brown, beneath Avith the brown 
more restricted, the hindwing unicolorous, the fringes blackish. Kilimandjaro, 3000—4000 in, flying among 
Ericinella. 
17. Genus: Mimocl^'stia Warr. 
Evidently nearly related to E^ArrhoE or at least to the African members thereof. Differs in that the 
discocellulars of the hindwing are biangulate, though less extremely, as a rule, than in the Palaearctic Eulype 
(Vol. 4, p. 254), which further differs in the small eye, the continuation on the hindwing of the strong pattern 
of the foreAAung and other details. Alimoclystia, as at present constituted, is exclusively African. 
M. tepescens Pront (lOf) differs from the genotype undnlosata in the total absence of red shades, the 
markings being brownish-grey just as in the European Enphyia scripiturata (Vol. 4, pi. 9 k). Foreving with 
median band perhaps a little more distally placed than in undulosata, the succeeding pale band more strongly 
developed, the hindwing fairly sharply marked. Rhodesia (type) and Angola. 
M. undulosata Warr. (lOf). See above for comparisons with tepescens and with Epirrhoe edelsteni. 
Eupjhyia distinctata, to the reddest forms of which it also bears a good deal of resemblance, is of course distin¬ 
guished by the venation of both wings. Cape Colony and extending to the Transvaal. 
M. deplanata Joan. (lOf). Well described and figured (uncoloured) by its author, but unfortunately 
he omitted to examine the venation. By its resemblance to Loxofidonia but Avith the A antenna “very shortly 
ciliated” it evidently belongs in this neighbourhood; and as specimens from Central Abyssinia (one of AAdiich is 
here figured) agree excellently, except that the ty^ie A fiom Eritrea seems to have had rather paler and AA'eaker- 
marked distal area and hindAving, aa^c are probably safe in referring it here. If the determination is correct, 
the (J antennal ciliation is not only “very short” but absolutely minute (j^ oi’ less). 
