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NEW INDIAN EPIPLEMIDAE AND GEOMETBIDAE. 

 By W. VVARKEN, M.A., F.E.S. 



Family EPIPLEMIDAE. 



1. Epiplema arcuata sp. nov. 



Forewinrjs : dark leadcii-giey, with numerous dark fuscous strigae, and a large 

 dark discal blotch ; lines indistinct, dull ferruginous ; first at one-fourth, curved below 

 costa, then vertical to inner margin; second at two-thirds, forming two angles, one 

 below costa, the other lielow middle, thence incurved to inner margin at two-thirds; 

 a large dark semicircrdar patch ou hinilmargin from apex to the middle tooth; 

 fringe dark leaden-grey. 



Hindwinfjs : with outer line a little beyond the middle, forming two curves 

 meeting at an angle in middle, ferruginous, edged outwardly with ochreous ; basal 

 two-thirds dark leaden-grey, with a chestnut middle streak from base, joined by 

 a dark streak on the discocellular ; marginal space ochreous, especially towards costa 

 and inner margin, suffused towards outer margin with brown and leaden-grey scales, 

 and striated with darker ; fringe dark grey, with a rather lustrous paler grey line 

 at base. 



Face and palpi lilackish ; head, thorax, and abdomen dark grey. Underside 

 of forewings dull dark grey, with fuscous mottlings ; of hindwings paler, somewhat 

 tinged with ochreous, with straggling fuscous streaks. 



Expanse of wings : cj, 26 mm. ; ? , 32 mm. 



One <S (August), one ? (February), from the Khasia Hills. The ? is consider- 

 ably paler than the <?. 



2. Epiplema fiilvata sp. nov. 



Fm-cwlngs : white, with patches of fulvous scales and striae ; costa at base with 

 a few fuscous striae ; a small darker spot at one-fourth and one-half, from the first 

 of which a faintly double curved fulvous line arises, and beyond the second another, 

 accompanied by fulvous scales internally and with a black lilotch above inner margin ; 

 fuhous patches on costa before apex, above anal angle, and at middle of hindmargin ; 

 a minute black subapical dot before the hindmargin. 



Hindwings: almost wholly sufiused with orange-fulvous, the base, a narrow 

 aiitcmedian space, and the hindmargin alone remaining white ; a double curved 

 postmedian line, only distinct in the middle, where it is blackish ; a minute black 

 dot before the lower tail. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white; face wliite, with a brown central bar; palpi 

 white, ringed with black. Underside of forewings ochreous fuscous, of hindwings 

 whitish ; both with darker central fascia. 



Expanse of wings : 16 mm. 



Une cJ from the Khasias. 



Near E. ruj^taria Moore. 



