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Face, jiali>i (wliich are lung and porrcct), anil forelegs black ; vertex snow- 

 white ; shoulders and patagia grey-brown ; abdomen whitish, the basal half of 

 dorsum black, the anal grey ; abdomen beneath and legs white. 



Exjiause of wings : 27 mm. 



1 ?. 



Hindmargin of forewing simple; of hindwing with two lougish teeth at veins 4 

 and 7, and a shorter one at end of 0. 



24. Epiplema dealbata spec. nov. 



Forcwimj : glossy stone-grey, iinely dusted with dark scales ; costa marked 

 with grey; lines starting from costa at two-fifths and three-fifths; first very 

 obscnre, passing over a linear chestnut-brown discal spot ; second outcurved, 

 reddish grey with a paler limiting line, incurved at 4, joining the edges of a 

 large flattened pale-centred chestnut-brown blotch at middle of inner margin ; 

 a chestnut-brown narrow shade before margin from ajiex to vein 3, broken into 

 two lunules above vein 6 ; a submarginal grey cloud running into anal angle ; 

 fringe grey. 



IHndiriiKj : inner line straight, chestnut-brown, its middle formed by the 

 discocellular mark ending in a round blotch between the origin of veins 3 and 4 ; 

 outer line brown, with paler edge, waved and bent on vein 4, ending in a square 

 brown blotch between 3 and 4 ; a dark, pale-edged lunular line before teeth ; 

 Bubmedian interval cream-white without markings, which reappear on vein 1. 



Underside white, slightly discoloured in forewing, with a few dark specklings 

 towards hindmargin. 



Vertex, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; face and palpi brown-black. 



Expanse of wings : 27 mm. 



1 S. 



Forewing simjile ; hindwing toothed at 4 and 7. 



25. Epiplema despecta spec. nov. 



Forcwimj : pale grey, thickly covered with grey-brown striae ; lines dark 

 brown and fairly distinct; first well curved at one-third; second from just beyond 

 middle of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, projecting outwards on the two 

 folds, angularly beyond cell and bluntly on the submedian ; a browner grey 

 marginal shade from apex to vein 3, prominently projecting inwards between 

 4 and 6, where it is edged by two black lunules, and above vein by another 

 black Innule nearer margin ; fringe grey. 



IlinihciiKj : a brown line near base; a faint ochreons line along median vein 

 joined by a faint brown mark on discocellular ; outer line sinuous, brown edged 

 with i)aler, bluntly angled or rounded on vein 4 ; a leaden-grey shade along margin 

 from upper to lieluw lower tooth, with a sinuous darker inner edge cut by a whitisli 

 dash on vein 4, with a whitish edge between 3 and 4. 



Underside of forewing dull brownish grey with darker freckling and a dark 

 shade at base; of hindwing much paler, becoming greyer and freckled only towards 

 hindmargin. 



Vertex, antennae, thorax, and abdomen grey ; face, palpi, and forelegs black. 



Expanse of wings : 25 mm. 



1 c?. 



Hindmargin of forewing entire ; of hindwing toothed at 4 and 7, with a blunt 

 tooth at G ; submediau fold scaled like the rest of wing. 



