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3787. a. Eupithecia leucospila, Swinh., A. M. N. H. (7), xvii, p. 380 

 (1906). 



<J. Head, thorax and abdomen red-brown ; vertex of head white, pectus 

 whitish ; Jegs whitish banded with brown ; abdomeD with dorsal series of 

 small white spots, the anal tuft and ventral surface whitish. Forewing red- 

 brown ; a waved subbasal white line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial 

 white spots on costa, median nervure and vein 1, with blackish marks before 

 and beyond them ; a black discoidal spot ; an excurved white medial band 

 from costa to lower angle of cell, a spot at base of vein 2 and slight streak in 

 submedian fold ; a double postmedial maculate white band with blackish marks 

 on the veins between the spots, excurved from costa to vein 5, then oblique 

 and ending in a single spot on vein 1 ; a subterminal series of small black and 

 white spots, obsolescent towards apex, larger towards tornus ; a terminal series 

 of dark striae ; cilia with a series of white spots. Hindwing pale, the inner 

 half suffused with red brown and with antemedial, medial, postmedial and 

 subterminal small white spots on the veins with dark streaks between them ; a 

 terminal series of dark strise ; cilia with series of white spots. 



Habitat. — Assam, Khasis. Exp. 22 mill. 



3787. b. Eupithecia albifurva, n. sp. (Plate E #> f. 8). 



$. Head, thorax and abdomen white; palpi fuscous; abdomen dorsally 

 tinged with fuseous except at base and with rufous segmental lines towards 

 extremity. Forewing wtnte, the terminal half suffused with brick-red ; the 

 costa with patches of fuscous ; traces of minutely waved lines on basal half ; 

 ,a black discoidal point ; an ill-defined double minutely waved postmedial white 

 line ; a waved white subterminal line ; a terminal series of black strias. Hind- 

 wing white with six indistinct waved lines, almost obsolete on basal area ; a 

 discoidal point ; a terminal series of black strife. 



Habitat. —Ceylon (de Mowbray). Exp. 24 mill. Type in B. M. 



3810. a Sauris lobata, Warr. Nov. Zool , ii, p. 107 (1895). 



Differs from hirudinata in the termen of forewing having a deep incision 

 above vein 2, hindwint; with the lobe larger. 



Head and thorax olive green ; antenme black ; pectus, legs and abdomen 

 brownish ochreous. Forewing olive green with pale raised shining scales ; 

 eleven irregular waved deeper green lines with some fuscous on medial part 

 of 1st antemedial line, on costal area of the two medial and three postmedial 

 lines, on the medial part of the three postmedial lines ; a green discoidal 

 bar ; the subterminal line fuscous and formed of rather dentate marks ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hindwing fuscous, the basal vesicle and area 

 near the black medial lobe pale. 



Habitat.— Ceylon, Kandy (Mackwood) ; Malacca, Padang ; Borneo, Pulo 

 Lant. Exp. 34 mill. 



3811. a. Sauris metapilea, n. sp. (Plate E., f. 7.) 



Differs from hirudinata in the hind tibiae of male having no tuft of hair at 

 extremity ; hindwing with the vesicle at base rather more elongate and 

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