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15. Epiplema reversata spec. nov. 



Forewing : dull grey-brown, clouded with darker, and with oblique darker 

 streaks from costa, but without an}' defined lines ; a broad brown-black border 

 from vein T to inner margin : the fringe brown; an obscure brown cell-spot. 



Hindwing : traversed from costa to inner margin by five darker shades, of 

 which two are antemedian : the other three, postmedian, form a dark baud ; 

 a narrow, straight, black-brown band along margin from vein 7 to anal augle. 



Underside dull greyish brown along costa of forewing, the rest of forewing 

 dull black : hindwing wholly grey, with darker striae. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown ; face and palpi blackish. 



Expanse of wings : 24 mm. 



1 6 from Oconeque, L'arabaya, Pern, 7000 ft., July 1904, dry season 

 (Ockenden). 



Wings shaped as in E. draco and vulpina Warr. 



10. Epiplema straminea spec. nov. 



Forewing : straw-colour, washed with pale brown, and shaded with purplish 

 fuscous along inner margiu, especially at base aud anal augle ; lines fine, grey, edged 

 on both .sides with darker; first from one-third of costa to near middle of inner 

 margin, angled outwards in cell aud on submediau fold, inwards on vein 4, the 

 shade before it fuscous, that beyond it chestnut brown ; outer line from two- 

 thirds of costa to three-fourths of inner margin, vertical but with a bend outwards 

 on vein 4, the shade preceding it brown, that following it fuscous ; a sinuous 

 brown stripe along outer margin ; an indistinct double submarginal brown shade, 

 ending in a purplish and blackish blotch at anal angle ; inner margin with thick 

 brown striatums ; fringe (worn) ochreous. 



Hi itd/ring : paler, more or less brownish-tinged on costal half and below 

 median vein ; first line sharply, outer bluntly, angled on vein 4 ; a diffuse brown 

 median cloud, obscuring a brown cell-spot ; a brown submarginal shade towards 

 costa ; a brown marginal shade, edged by a concise dark brown curved streak 

 from tooth at vein 7 to 5, and a brown spot above aud below lower tooth. 



Underside pale straw colour ; forewing with a diffuse dark cloud from anal 

 angle to veiu 6. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen straw colour ; face aud palpi brown ; dorsum 

 tinged with brown, and with a narrow pale central line. 



Expanse of wings : 20 mm. 



1 ¥ from La Oroya, R. Inambari, Carabaya, Peru, 3100 ft., March 1905, 

 wet season (Ockenden). 



17. Epiplema turbinata spec. nov. 



Forewing : dove-colour, speckled with black ; the costa minutely striated with 

 dark; first line rounded, from one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin; 

 second line from three-fifths of costa to three-fifths of inner margin, slightly 

 incurved in middle the included space fuscous brown edged with ferruginous : 

 wider at both cuds and constricted in middle; some dark scales indicating a 

 submarginal line from a little before apex to before anal angle ; a row of minute 

 dark dots before apex to middle of outer margin. 



