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THE MOT as OF INDIA. 



SUPPLEMENTARY PAPER TO THE VOLUMES IN 



" THE FAUNA OF BRITISH INDIA." 



SERIES III, PART IX. 



By 



Sir George Hampson, Bart., f.z.s., f.e.s. 



(Continued from page 677 of Vol. XVZI.) 



( With a Plate.) 

 Uraniad^e. 



3045. a. Epiplema polei, n.sp. (Plate E., f. 1). 



White, f rous brownish above , thorax slightly irrorated with brown ; abdomen 

 dorsally tinged with brown. Forewing faintly tinged with brown and 

 sparsely striated with dark brown, some blackish points on eosta ; a strong 

 medial blackish line very oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then 

 inwardly obliqne, often interrupted in places and with brown suffusion beyond 

 the cell and on inner area between it and the postmedial line which is slightly 

 excurved below costa and incurved at middle and below vein 3, interrupted 

 in places ; two subterminal black points below apex and a dark brown line 

 from vein 6 to termen at vein 3 with more or less brown suffusion on each side 

 of it ; a more or less developed diffused brown mark at tornus. Hindwing 

 sparsely striated with dark brown, the inner margin with more prominent striai ; 

 some fuscous irroration between lower angle of cell and termen ; antemedial 

 line extremely oblique from costa to lower angle of cell where it is acutely 

 angled, then sinuous to inner margin ; a black discoidal point ; postmedial 

 line oblique from costa to median nervules where it is excurved, then slightly 

 sinuous to inner margin, some dark suffusion before it at costa and a diffused 

 spot at apex ; a brown line just before termen between the tails at veins 7 and 

 4 to which it is bent outwards ; a brown spot on termen below the lower tail. 



Habitat. — Hong Kong (J. J. Walker) ; Ceylon, N. C. Province, Puttalam 

 (Pole). Exp. $ 20, 9 24 mill. Type in B. M. Named after Mr. J. Pole who 

 has done so much in working up the Moths of Ceylon. 



3053. a. Epiplema suBFLAViDA,Swinh., A. M. N. H. (7), xvii, p. 553 (1906) 

 (Plate E., f . 2). 



$. Head and thorax grey brown ; palpi and frons black ; abdomen 

 greyish fuscous ; pectus, legs and ventral surface of abdomen ochreou9. 

 Forewing grey-brown with indistinct dark striae ; an antemedial rufous spot 

 in cell and blackish point below it ; a curved rufous postmedial line from 

 costa to vein 4 and a conical fuscous patch on inner margin with black on its 

 outer edge ; a fine black subterminal line slightly excurved from vein 7 to 5 

 then oblique to near termen at vein 3 and with some rufous on its outer edge ; 

 some fuscous suffusion near tornus ; cilia pale at tips. Hindwing grey-brown 

 with black stria? on costa and inner half ; a subbasal brown line from cell to 

 inner margin ; a v-shaped rufous mark at end of cell ; postmedial line dark 



