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brown defined by whitish on outer side and with a red-brown band on its 

 inner side from vnin 3 to inner margin, strongly excurved at middle and with 

 some leaden suffusion beyond it followed by a rufous line obliquely incurved 

 from vein '5 to inner side of the subterminal black line which is irregularly 

 sinuous from the upper tail to termen at vein 2, intersected by an 

 ochreous streak at vein 5 and with stieaks beyond it on veins 4*3 ; cilia rufous ; 

 underside yellow-buff with some dark stria? towards apex. 



9 Mora rufous and less suffused with leaden grey. 



Habitat. — Japan ; N. Kanaka, Karwar ; Ceylon, Kandy ; Singapore ; Pdlo 

 Laut ; Java. Exp. $ 24, 9 28 mill. 



3059. a. Epiplema ENTHKARlA.Swinh., A. M. N. H. (7), xvii, p 283 (1906). 



Head and thorax white ; palpi brownish at base and black at tips ; antenna? 

 brownish, the shaft with black points above ; vertex of head with some 

 brown ; forelegs marked with black ; abdomen white irrorated with brown. 

 Forewing white, the costal area striated with brown and the rest of wing with 

 a few brown stria? ; a more or less developed curved orange postmedial band 

 from below costa to letter angle of cell towards which it expands, edged with 

 fuscous and with a blackish spot on inner edge ; a slight orange spot below 

 costa towards apex ; a subterminal diffused fuscous patch between vein 6 and 

 submediau fold almost touching the lower part of postmedial band usually 

 present. Hindwing white with large orange patch on terminal half between 

 vein 5 and tornus, its middle clouded and striated with black, its inner edge 

 waved, its upper edge emitting an oblique v-shaped mark towards costa and its 

 outer angled marks to the tails at veins 6 and 4, the latter with a black point 

 below it ; the termen with some white between the tails and towards tornus. 



Habitat. — Sikuim ; Bhutan ; Assam, Khasis. Exp. 20 mill. 



3064. a. Dirades nuuila, n. sp. (Plate E., f. 3.) 



$ . Pale reddish brown ; head blackish wiih white band between antennae. 

 Forewing sparsely irrorated and striated with black; some fuscous suffusion 

 on medial area from cell to inner margin ; an indistinct postmedial line 

 excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; some minute black subterminal 

 points from apex to vein 4 ; termen tinged with fuscous. Hindwing darker 

 red-brown especially towards termen, irrorated with a few black scales ; an 

 indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Habitat— Ceylon, Uva 6,000' (Alston). Exp. 34 mill. Type in B. M. 



3067. a. Dirades erosioides, Wlk., xxvii, 21 (1863). 



Dirades kohistaria, Swinh., A. M. N. H. (7), vi, p. 307. 



£. Head blackish ; the base of shaft of antenna? and a band between them 

 pure white ; thorax grey and fuscous ; abdomen yellowish, the dorsal area 

 blackish at base, then suffused with fuscous. Forewing grey, thickly irrorated 

 and striated with fuscous, the costal area suffused with fuscous ; a more or 

 less indistinct oblique rufous striga from middle of inner margin ; postmedial 

 line tinged with rufous especially on inner half where it is double, oblique 

 from costa to vein 4 where it is excurved and has a small black spot on it, 



