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Face and palpi blackish grey ; vertex and antennae white ; thorax and abdomen 

 dark grey, the latter with a dark ring at base and iu the c? paler towards anus. 



Expanse of wings : c? 26 mm. ; ? 28 mm. 



1 c?, 1 ?. 



43. Epiplema adornata spec. nov. 



Forewing : chalk-grey, slightly speckled ; the markings dark brown, consisting 

 of a central fascia and a subapical blotch on outer margin ; inner edge of fascia 

 curved from below one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin ; outer from 

 below middle of costa, obliquely curved outwards to below 4, then incurved and 

 irregularly crenulate to two-thirds of inner margin ; the brown of the fascia is 

 broken up by patches of the pale ground-colour and the pale veins ; it is followed 

 at a narrow interval by a brown line ; a subapical spot, which is dark brown-grey, 

 edged inwardly by a waved black-brown line from vein 7 to 3 ; a submarginal 

 shade is shown by a brown costal cloud, and a double patch of brown striae 

 before anal angle ; fringe grey beyond a dark marginal line, dark-flecked beyond 

 veins. 



Hindwing : with the markings restricted to the upper two-thirds of wing 

 above vein 4, and to the inner margin below vein 1, the intervening space whitish ; 

 dark, pale-edged lunules along margin. 



Underside whitish, with slight speckling along costa and towards apex. 



Face and palpi black-brown; thorax and abdomen grey like wings; vertex, 

 shoulders, and shaft of antennae white. 



Expanse of wings : 22 to 25 mm. 



3 ? ?. 



Outer margins of wings slightly crenulate ; hindwing with sharp teeth at 

 4 and 7 ; apex of forewing truncate. 



44. Epiplema aequisecta spec. nov. and ab. flavicata nov. 



Forewing : dark brown or brown-grey, more or less speckled ; costa finely 

 black-dotted ; first line very indistinct in $ ; black and outcurved iu ¥ , with basal 

 area black-brown ; outer line vertical, thick and well-marked, from a little beyond 

 middle of costa to a black-brown blotch at three-fifths of inner margin, followed 

 in ? by a black-brown cloud widening below to anal angle ; marginal area at 

 middle diffusely darker, edged inwardly by a fine curved line, often very obscure; 

 fringe concolorous. 



Hindwing : with basal line biangulate, black ; discal mark thick, black, and 

 angled along 5; outer line orange, dark-edged on both sides, bluntly angled at 

 vein 4, with a black blotch on its inner edge from 2 to 4 ; a series of dark, paler 

 edged, dull lustrous submarginal lunules from upper tooth to vein 2 ; space below 

 snbmediau fold pale ochreous, unmarked, excejit by the outer line. 



Underside of forewing grey-brown, of hindwing whitish, tinged with brown 

 towards apex, all the brown areas with black speckling : hindwing with outer 

 line, cell-spots, and lunules marked. 



Vertex, thorax, and abdomen brown ; face and palpi black. 



Expanse of wings : S l'Jmm.; ? 22 mm. 



3 c?c?,l ?• 



Forewing with apex depressed ; outer margin vertical from 8 to 0, incised 

 from 6 to 4, then gibbous to anal angle : hindwing with the usual two teeth at 



4 and 7. 



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