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moderately convex and with a faint sinuosity behind the 1st radial, the tornus rounded. Colour of forewing 
brownish drab, costally and terminally more cinnamon-drab, and with an ill-defined longitudinal fuscous patch 
at apex; cell-dot small; lines mostly weak, the most characteristic being the postmedian, winch is consj)icuous 
from fold to 1st radial, where it is very steeply best inward, a little thickened behind the bend. Hindwing 
paler, except at abdominal and distal margins. Mount Kenya, at 2800—3200 m, only the type (J known. 
E. infelix Proiit (11 g). Palpus moderate. Ciliation of (J antenna niimite. Not quite so narrow-winged infclLi. 
as celatisigyia, which it resembles in coloration and several particulars. The conspicuous l)lack cell-mark of 
the forewing, ringed with white scales, the white admixture on the thickened black part of the postmedian 
line {1st to 3rd radial) and the angidar white subterminal marks, filled-in with black proximally, are the prin¬ 
cipal features. Hindwing not greatly paler than forewing; a white spot at its anal angle often conspicuous. 
Distributed in the Transvaal and extending at least to the eastern part of Cape Colony. 
E. infausta Prottt (11 g). Close to infelix, perhaps a race of it, on an average smaller; wings somewhat infamlu. 
narrower. Forewing with the cell-dot smaller, more conspicuously white-ringed, postmedian line perhajis less 
acutely angidated, subterminal white marks as a rule less angular, their black accompaniment weaker. Hind- 
wing very weakly marked, the fringe scarcely chequered. Cape Town. 
E. bolespora n. 9, 20 or 21 mm. Face fuscous, spotted with white. Palpus long (rather over 2), hole.spora. 
fuscous, 2nd joint with a projecting tuft, 3rd joint moderate, distinct. Thorax above largely pale, mixed with 
whitish. Forewing moderate, apex not aciite, termen well curved; glossy grey-brown, with a tinge (particularly 
in distal area) of cinnamon-drab; markings represented by much broken white lines; basally 3 are indicated 
(interruptedly) across the wing and form dashes on median vein and fold; the last of them (the anteniedian) 
is slenderly angled outward in the cell; median strongest costally and in a strong bend outside the obscure cell- 
spot (which is accompanied proximally by another white spot), obsolete behind; postmedian and subterminal 
little bent, slender at each end, punctiform between, the postmedian closely preceded proximally by a strong 
white streak. Hindwing slightly paler, almost nnicolorous, the only conspicuous spot being a small one close 
to anal angle. Fringe of both wings white-spotted proximally. Underside with white median and postmedian 
costal spots on forewing and subterminal and fringe-dots on both wings. Grande Comoro, 1884 (L. Humblot), 
a very perfect $ from the OberthCr collection. 
E. subvincta Prout. Somewhat similar to taioptem in shape, but with the costal margin of the fore- suhvincta. 
wing less rounded, the termen of the hindwing not sinuate behind the 1st radial. The unique tyjie, a 5, is not 
quite so large (24 mm), the palpus rather longer (nearly 2), the breast less white, the forewing rather less glossy 
and more uniform (margins less cinnamon-drab), cell-mark more elongate, postmedian line anteriorly curved 
rather than angled, subterminal more obsolescent. Hindwing scarcely ])aler than forewing, the dark marking 
of al)dominal margin weaker than in tatopiera. Underside very distinctive, being sharply banded, much as 
in typical liypopjliasma. Kenya: Aberdare Range, alpine meadows, 3000—3100 m. 
E. licita P) ■out (11 g). Variable, but easily known by its buff tone (generally nearer to the pinkish-^ Ucita. 
buff” than the “cream-buff” of Ridgway). Much less long-winged than the well-known inconclusaria (11 h), 
somewhat more glossy, the markings which give it its colour more band-like, jjarticidarly in the median area, 
which commonly forms a band on each side of the cell-dot, the bands occasionally so broad as nearly to meet; 
postmedian curved rather than angled; the characteristic dark posterior costal spot of inconclusaria undeve¬ 
loped. Hindwing predominantly white. Antennal ciliation of the mimite. Cape Colony, the type series from 
Clanwilliam. — vepallida Prout. Generally larger, the ground-colour of the forewing cleaner white, the two vepallida. 
bands of the median area very well developed, the proximal one (at least in my examples) broadened, the white 
space between them conspicuous. Hindwing above and both wings beneath less weakly marked than in typical 
licita. Perhaps a species, as Janse notes a slight difference in the genitalia. Known from Knysna, Table 
Bay, Mossel Bay and Belvedere (Cape Colony) and from Prinzenbucht (S. W. Africa). 
E. subconclusaria Prout (11 h). Possibly another form of licita, in which case I iwoiDose (as nearly all subconciu- 
the known specimens are worn and it is omitted from Janse's excellent work on “The Moths of South Africa”) 
that the name be sunk in the synonymy of licita. The ^ antennal ciliation, however, appears to be scarcely 
so vestigial, the first two abdominal tergites are marked with brown, the wings are a little narrower (inter¬ 
mediate towards inconclusaria), the forewing shows a dark mark near the anal angle (occasionally developed 
in vepallida), the hindwrng a (minute) cell-dot and traces of postmedian, and the underside more nearly the 
scheme of vepallida. Possibly, therefore, it will have to furnish the oldest name for the latter, with vepallida 
as a large race. Kalk Bay, several of both sexes. 
E. inconclusaria Walk. (= macropterata Walk.) (11 h). Antennal ciliation of the ^ nearly as long as inconclu- 
diameter of shaft. Further distinguishable from the licita group by its strongly elongate wings, characteristic 
costal markings, etc., from all the other known species of similar shape by its coloration. CajDe Colony, locally 
common; also extending into S. W. Africa. 
