EPTSTEIRA. Bv L. B. Prout. 
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xlxHit. L. stulta Prout (11 k). Close to eumares, though the palpus appears to he a little shorter still and the 
2nd sul)COstal of the ^ hindwing is in ore (not less) stalked than in veninotata. Coloration yellowish olivaceous, 
the markings Aveaker than in any of the preceding; anteniedian of forewing more angled inward at the fold 
than in eumares: hindwing as free from markings as in that, hut of a much less clean whits. Belgian Congo. 
ihomiir. from Ituri Forest to the region N. W. of Lake Kivu. — thomae Prout ( 11 k), from Sao Thome, is so similar to 
■<!tutta that I have treated it provisionally as a subspecies. The smaller. Abdominal tergites posteriorly with 
rather distinct white belts, bearing paired black spots. Ground-colour of forewing whiter, with the lines rather 
])ale grey-green, Avith some temlency to develop the black vein-marks of venmotata (but as dots rather than 
dashes). HindAving slightly greyer (less yellowish) than instuJta, a fine grey ])ostmedian line sometimes traceable. 
'The $ is less heavily marked than tlie d' 'Wid generally lai’ger. 
27. Genus: £pisteira Warr. 
To this genus, AA'hich properly consists of a feA\' Indo-Australian species, may be temporarily referred 
two someAvhat anomalous African ones, the second neAv, the first originally described (on the $ only) as a 
doubtful Remodes and transferred by Janse to Sauris, biit Avhich has (though rudimentary) the poAieh-like 
]n‘ocess at the base of the abdomen l>eneath — called by Warren a “keel” — the extremely long palpus, spurless 
hindtibia, simple areole and reduction of veins in the hindwing Avhich characterize Episteira. The disco- 
celhilars of the hindAA'ing, hoAvevev, are biangulate (in the (J sometimes only Aveakly) and there are other diver¬ 
gences. 
contnpden- £. coilfusidentata Warr. (12 d). Excepting one or two Lohidiopteryx, Avhieh can readily he distinguishetl 
by the pal])i and other structural characters, there is no knoAvn African species with Avhich this and its im¬ 
mediate allies coidd ])ossibly be conLised. The definitely green foreAving (Avhitish green Avith a nniltitncle of 
almost regularly distril)uted — but sinuous or dentate — yellowish olive lines) is more like that of seA^eral 
Indo-Australian Sauris. Tme conjusidentata, from Natal (and since recorded from East London and Port 
Elizabeth and seen from Table Mountain and Malta, Pietershurg), has in the the abdomen strongly elongate, 
hindtibia Avith a vestige of one terminal s])ur, hindAving much narroAved, its costal margin folded over beneath 
(st> as to reach, at its Avidest part — just outside the cell — as far as the 1st radial), its humeral region folded 
oA^er above, affording a base to a spreading hair-pencil Avhich covers the anterior part of the cell, the cell mostly 
hyaline, contorted beneath, and A\ith a moderate, appressed lobe above, a small tuft of hair at the abdominal 
margin beneath, arising from the rnstigial 1st median, the only Avell-developed veins being the three radials. 
'fhe $ hindwing has the normal Larentiid venation. ^\h4LKER, in 1862, treated a Avorn specimen as a A^ariety 
of his Sauris prohoscidaria of Ceylon. Some large, broad-Avinged $$ from the Kikuyu Escarpment (6500—9000 
feet) are perhaps also true conjusidentata . Single $9 from Sao Thome and Fernando Po may also represent 
races either of this or of the folloAving; the former has heavy black spots on the sxd)terminal. the latter a con- 
spicm)usly darkened median area. 
iruftirata. E. frustrata sp. 11 . (12 d) is rather small and Aveakly marked, hut Avould have been taken for a race of 
the ]n-eceding hut for the differences in the structure; abdomen someAvhat less elongate, basal pouch beneath 
someAvhat less rudimentary, probably accomodating a better developed pencil from base of hindcoxa than 
is found in co/i/HSide/Pato, hindtibia AA’ith a minute node in place of the vestigial spur; hindAving Avith costa 
scarcely folded beneath, merely thickened so as to absorb the costal vein, 2nd SAibcostal cleAmloped, short- 
stalked Avith 1st radial, cell beneath smoother, lohe above rather smaller, perhaps less appressed, pencil from 
l)ase not covering any ])art of it, hair-tuft of abdominal margin denser, arising just proximally of 1st median. 
Nairobi. 1 2 5^^, the type (F. J. Jackson, December 1905) in the Tring Museum. 
E. ( ?) atrospila Strand certainly l)elongs to the Lottopliora group. The figure and description SAiggest 
a Lohidiopteryx:\)\\t as Strand indicates that it has some of the characteristics of a Eupithecia it shoidd hao'e 
the areole undivided, and the better rounded Avings, with tolerably direct transverse markings on the foreAving, 
may rather point to a 9 Episteira, in Avhich case the pal])i mnst have been lost. ForeAving 17 mm in length, 
S in breadth; dirty ochreous, Avith indistinct lighter Avavy lines, 4 or 5 each in basal half and distal area, those 
of the latter parallel Avith termen, the others Aveakly concave on proxinial side, ■j)arallel inter se; median band 
also AAith a few ])ale lines, but these interrupted by tA\ o subtriangular blackish ])atches, one at base of celhile 2, 
underlined by 3 deep-black dashes on 2nd median, the other covering the bases of cellules 4 and 5; indications 
of a dark line near termen, also some dark vein-dashes; termen Avith paired dots at the veins (as in Ljobidio- 
ptery.r). HindAving pale fawn-grey (probably as in confusidentata). Founded on a $ from Bonaberi, Gameroons. 
Possibly near the Fernando Po form of conjusidentata. 
africaua. E. { ?) afticatia Auriv. described as Sauris, is likcAvise unknown to me, but according to the figure and 
description must be superficially very similar to the two preceding, probably best distingAiishable from jrustrata 
(12 d) by the less oljlique termen of the foreAving, less reduced and not cremdate-margined, “more Avhitish” hind- 
Aving. still less sinuous and more equally expressed lines and absence of cell-dot. Hindtibia of the q Avith terminal 
