EUPITHECIA. By L. B. Prout. loi 
abdominal margin very strong. Occasional in Uganda, East Africa and Rhodesia, perhaps less rare in Mada¬ 
gascar. 
B. Section Eujnthecia. Areole simple. 
E. festiva Prout (lib), A pretty little species, not liable to be confused with any other known African jestivd. 
EujntJiecia, but evidently close to com/psodes Meyr. and melanolopha Swmh. of the Indo-Australian Region, 
perhaps conspecific; less heavily marked. Face with a long pointed tuft. Palpus rather strong, with a tuft 
at base. Antennal ciliation in the minnte. Abdomen of the pointed. Prevailing tone brown, a pinkish- 
buff hue deepening to cinnamon-buff or cinnamon, some cloudings and most of the median area of the fore¬ 
wing fuscescent. Characteristic are the pure white postmedian and subterminal lines, the former not lobed 
nor angled. Scattered from Barberton (loc. typ.) to Belvedere, Cape Province. 
E. oblongipennis Warr. (11 b) was described as a Chloroclystis, probably on account of a greenish tinge ohlonyipeu- 
in the ground-colour. Face and palpus pale, the latter rather long, but not robust. Hindwing above and be- 
neath strongly marked. The type ^ has the forewings torn and both the known (one of which we figure) 
are rid)bed, but recognizable. Kikuyu Escarpment. 
E. thomasina Prout. Larger and slightly longer-winged than longi^^iennis, without greenish tinge, hind- thmuasina. 
wing almost unmarked, forewing with the postmedian line more regularly excurved in anterior part, an ill-defined 
dark band developed between basal patch and median band. Sao Thome, variable, the median band in part 
white-mixed. — dohertyi subsj). nov. (11 b). Larger still, more iiniform-looking, with less Idackening of the an- dohertyi. 
temedian lines of the forewing, the proximal postmedian line also less heavy, the lines outside it better ex¬ 
pressed; forewing beneath rather brighter brown. Kikuyu Escarpment, 6500—9000 feet (Doherty). 
E. tricuspis Prout. Expanse 33 mm. Very much like an overgrown dilucida (11 b), excejA for the form iricuspis. 
of the antemedian line, which is acutely angled outward in the cell and has a second, longer but slightly less 
acute, prong outward between the median and the submedian veins; postmedian line even more acutely angled 
outward than in dilucida, the white subterminal better developed. Kilimandjaro, between 2800 and 3000 m 
elevation, only the type $ known. Possibly a form of immodica, underside scarcely distinguishable. 
E. dilucida Warr. Variable. Abdomen, at least in the elongate, often, but not ahvays, with a white dilucida. 
belt at base. Wings elongate, glossy, the median area commonly white, sometimes yellowish, never as dark 
as the antemedian band, tLo\igh sometimes — especially in a race (?) from Madagascar —• traversed by dark 
lines; postmedian bandlike anteriorly, with a rather acute angle outward, posteriorly weak, interrupted or 
almost obsolete; a more or less extended blackish costal cloud beyond it. In the name-type, described from 
Nandi, the blackish antemedian band is not extended baseward. — ab. nigribasis Warr. (11 b) has the entire niyrihasis. 
proximal area of the forewing blackish. — ab. camea Warr. has the normally white areas of the forewing changed carnea. 
to pinkish buff. — dilucida is distributed in East Africa (commonest in Kenya) and reappears on Madagascar. 
E. immodica Prout (11c) differs from dilucuki in its large size (31—35 mm) and the obtuse angle of immodica. 
the postmedian line. Otherwise it seems to be equally variable. Hindwing proxiinally generally more or less 
whitened. Fringes perhaps less strongly mottled than in dilucida. Birunga; Mikeno, at 3100 m. 
E. semiflavata Warr. (lie) differs from dilucida in the buff hindAving. Antennal ciliation slightly less scmijla- 
rudimentary. Breast and forecoxa with a pale patch. Forevung coloured nearly as in dilucida ab. carnea, but 
Avithout black basal patch or antemedian band, both the proximal and the median area more regularly tra¬ 
versed by Avavy lines. Kenya, 6000—10 000 feet. 
E. mecodaedala Prout (11 c). Confusingly similar to dilucida and -semiflavata. Breast AA’ithout the pale mccodae- 
patch of the latter, antenna almost as in that. Abdomen Avith Avhite belt. ForcAA'ing Avith the proximal darkened 
area very ample, broAAur rather than black and not quite solid; postmedian line crossed betAveen the 2nd and 
the 3rd radial by a very characteristic fuscous or reddish streak. HindAving Avith a buff tinge, but paler than 
in semiflavata-, discocelhilars noticeably biangulate. Mount Kenya and Aberdare Range, chiefly at high altitudes. 
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E. ecplyta Prout (lie) suggests an extremely Avashed-out form of mecodaedala Avith less markings, the ecplyta. 
postmedian less angled. ForeAving with ajiex acute. HindAving Avith discocellulars not apjn-eciably biangulate; 
yelloAv-Avhitish, almost or quite unmarked. Aberdare Range: alpine meadoAvs of IVIount Kinangop, at aboA^e 
3000 m, Avhile mecodaedala occurs on the same mountain in bamboo forests, up to 3000 m. 
E. tetraglena Prout. Coloration much as in semiflavata (11 c). AlKlomen Avifh a pale belt, but this is pink- tetraylena. 
ish buff rather than whitish; forewing Avith apex not quite so acute, glossy broAvn, Avith costa and some of the 
veins spotted, numerous extremely ill-defined rippled transverse lines, sidAterminal exj^ressed by 4 rather con¬ 
spicuous Avhite, longitudinally oval interneural spots between the 5th subcostal and 1st median; hindAving pinkish 
buff, shading into cinnamon-buff distally. Mount Kinangop, Avith ecplyta. 
