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EUPITHFX'IA. By L. B. Prout. 
red marking at the 2nd radial. Hindwing winter, except at distal and abdominal margins. Underside x^ale, 
the principal markings strongly expressed. Mt. Kenya, in open meadows at about 2000 m, the type A few 
similar $$ from scattered localities in Kenya Colony and even in Abyssinia show considerable variation inter 
se, but all have the cell-spot of the forewing black and are perhaps better regarded provisionally as gradafilinea. 
grndatUi- E. gradatilinea Front (11 e). Antennal ciliation of the minute. Forewing whitish grey with a tinge 
ma. with dark grey irroration; cell-mark black, elongate; markings somewhat variable, rarely sharp, 
exce])ting the postmedian, which is thick in its anterior part, then running inwards in somewhat the shape of 
a staircase; median line generally crossing the cell-spot. Hindwing in part whiter, somewhat iridescent in the 
cell, only the abdominal and perhajis the terminal region sharing the colour of the forewing. Underside also 
rnhidiniLr- whitish and somewhat iridescent, the cell-s])ots and postmedian line sharply marked. — ab. rubidimixta Front 
is a recurrent darker form, with generally enlarged cell-spots and with some reddish admixture on the forewing, 
notably between the radials distally to the median area; one or two white subterminal spots often develojjed. 
Founded on $$ and according to Janse still known only in that sex. The species is not rare in the Transvaal 
and reaches Cape CAlony and perhaps (see remark under rnbristigma) Kenya and Abyssinia. 
ruhUjinl- E. rubigitlifera Front (He). Face with tuft. Palpus rostriform, with spreading scales. Abdomen 
fera. .^£ base, then black, the posterior segments sprinkled with wdiite. Forewing dirty white, the markings 
not sharp, in part macular, fairly well developed as costal spots; postmedian distinct, black, interrupted by 
a rusty cloud between the radials; the 'white siibterminal also well developed. Hindwing above very weakly 
marked. Both wings beneath with cell-spot, that of the hindwing elongate but weak; forewing further marked 
costally by alternate black and white spots and distally by a suffusion as far as the 1st median, rendering visible 
the dentate pale subterminal; hindwing with weak antemedian and median lines and weak curved band parallel 
to termen, accompanied proximally by dark vein-dashes. Haenertsburg, Transvaal, only the type ^ yet known. 
snhscripfa- E. subscriptaria Front (He). Palpus moderate (at least If^)- Antennal ciliation of ^ minute. Fore- 
rut. q£ medium breadth, dirty white with copious greyish drab irroration, somewhat darker costal maculation 
and lilackish cell-s])ots, altogether more reminiscent of a brown-tinged seynigraphata Brd. (Vol. 4, p. 289) than 
of scriptaria Frr., with which 1 originally com])ared it. Pale markings formed by absence of irroration, the very 
oblicpie antemedian band fairly cleai’; in this and in its smaller size distinguishable from jMlylibades. Underside 
fairly well marked. Transvaal, the type from White River. 
potytibades. E. polylibades Front (11 e). Frontal tuft slight. Palpus moderately long, 2nd joint heavily scaled above. 
Ciliation of ^ antenna very short. Forewdng whitish grey, with very numeroiis, almost evenly developed, wavy, 
somewhat punctiform, darker grey lines (shown too dark in our figure) and a large oval cell-spot. Hindwing 
with the markings continued, except costally. Underside rather lighter and more glossy, forewing suffused 
proximally, tlie cell-mark and angulated (not punctiform) lines beyond it present, the hindwing not suffused, 
the first angulated line proximal to the cell-spot, the second crossing it, the third subterminal. Transvaal and 
Basutoland, the ty])e from Pretoria. 
sagiftata. E. sagittata Warr. (He). A more striking species, more drab in tone, without irroration, the markings 
of the forewing few l>ut sharp; some costal spots; a long, slightly bent cell-mark; very fine, more or less curved 
lines; often a browner spot or sufPrsion behind the 2nd median close to the termen. Hindwing with very charac¬ 
teristic, deeply dentate lines near termen. Natal to South Rhodesia, tlie type from Weenen. 
resarta. E. resarta Front (11 f). Antennal ciliation of cJ less than half diameter of shaft, probably not longer 
than in rediviva, of wliich, indeed, resarta may well be the East African representative. Ground-colour about 
the same, but the general impression very different, the lines being much stronger and more l)rightly coloured, 
in part broadened. Hindwing a little whiter than forewing but, in fresh specimens, not so weakly marked as 
in most rediviva. Kenya Colony, especially about Nairobi. 
rediviva. E. rcdiviva Front (11 f). Antennal ciliation of minute. Frontal tuft pointed. Palpus moderate, heavily 
scaled. Forewing with the lines (numbering about 9) ill-defined, specially the jiroximal ones, in general parallel 
with termen, but more or less bent or angled near costa (])erha])s less strongly than in resarta) ; cell-dot small 
but sharp. Hindwing paler, generally very weakly marked. Underside of each wing with distinct cell-dot and 
two rather thick and difRise biitweak outer lines, hindwing in part dark-speckled. Transvaal and 1 think Natal. 
pcftyi. E. petty! nom. nov. (= parallelaria Janse, nec Bohatsch). 18—19 mm. Near resarta and rediviva in 
shape and design, but much more sharply marked, both above and beneath, the cell-spot on the forewing above 
and on both wings beneath rather strong. Palpus fuscous, fringed with white scales below. Antenna of ^ finely 
ciliated. The ])ale body heavily irrorated with ochreous and fuscous. Forewing with the principal lines edged 
on both sides with lines of slightly raised ])ale scales, which are followed (antemedian) or preceded (postmedian) 
by narrow black scaling; similar black scaling behind lower radial and 2nd median. Hindwing ])ale in costal 
half, the rest more nearly as on forewing. Elsenburg, Cape Colony, a series bred by Hr. Petty, the foodplant 
not recorded. 
