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Vertex, (horax, and abdomen white; lace, jialjii, and forelegs dark brown ; 

 legs white, tarsi and spnrs brown-mottled. 

 Expanse of wings : 1.") mm. 



1 S. 



Hiudmargin of forewing simply indented beyond ecll ; of hindwing with short 

 teeth at 4 and 7 ; antennae with clavate teeth. 



:5;3. Epiplema vialactea spec. uov. 



Forewiiiij : deep liver-oolonr, crossed by two deeper brown shades, one at 

 one-third, the other from three-fourths of costa to two-thirds of inner margin ; 

 costa and all the veins dotted with white ; beyond the outer shade between 

 veins 4 and 6 a large white crescent-shaped blotch of coalescent white spots, 

 these spots lying between, as well as on, the veins; the spots above it on 

 vein 7 and in the interval below also being larger but not confluent ; a row 

 of white submarginal dots between the veins, those above vein 4 large and 

 conspicuous ; a marginal row of white spots between veins, above vein 4 running 

 out into the fringe, which is liver-brown. 



Hindwing: similar; the spots beyond cell and those in the whole lower 

 outer half of wing larger and more numerous, but not forming a crescent, 

 and coalescing along submedian fold ; marginal white spots between veins 

 throughout. 



Underside of forewing pale liver-colour freckled with white, of hindwing 

 white freckled with brown; the fringes chequered white and liver-colour. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dark liver-colour; dorsum with white points; 

 vertex and shaft of antennae snow-while ; abdomen beneath and legs whitish ; 

 pectus and forelegs liver-colour. 



Expanse of wings : 26 mm. 



1 ?. 



Hiudmargin of forewing simple ; of hindwing prominent, but hardly toothed, 



at veins 4 and 7. 



Family GEOMETRIDAE. 



Subfamily OENUCHROMINAE. 



Dicyclodes gen. nov. 



Forewini/ : costa straight, with a faint curve at ba>e and belbre apex ; 

 apex minutely produced: hiudmargin strongly gibbous above, oblii|ue below, in 

 the ? faintly indented below ajiex. 



Uindtviny : with apical angle and hiudmargin rounded ; anal angle rectangular. 



Thorax woolly ; antennae of S uniseriate pectinate for two-thirds ; of ? 

 filiform ; forehead protuberant ; paljii stout, upturned, short, terminal segment 

 indistinct; frenulum and tongue present; hindtibiae not thickened, with 

 four spurs. 



Neuration : forewing, cell longer than half wing ; discocellular obliijue 

 inwards to near median vein, then sharjily angled at the lower fork and oblique 

 outwards ; first median nervule at four-fifths, second close before end ; radials 

 normal ; 7, 8 stalked from end of cell, 'J, IK stalked a little before them, 9 



