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Hindwing brown, tinged with fuscous on costal and terminal areas ; cilia pale 

 brown. 



Habitat.— Sikhim. Exp. 30 mill. 



1634. Episilia tenuis. 



1634 b.— Episilia homochroma, Hmpsn. Cat. .Lep. Phal. B.M. IV., p. 493, pi. 

 73, f. 14(1903). 



£ . Head and thorax deep rufous ; antenna? whitish ; abdomen fuscous, the 

 ventral surface dark brown. Forewing deep chocolate-red suffused with 

 silvery blue ; an indistinct double, curved, sub-basal line from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; an indistinct double, waved, antemedial line, oblique from costa 

 to above inner margin where it is angled outwards ; orbicular and reniform 

 with silvery blue annuli defined by brown, the former oblique elliptical, open 

 above ; the postmedial line double, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, 

 slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4 : cilia purplish red. 

 Hindwing ochreous white more or less suffused with fuscous brown ; cilia 

 purplish red ; the underside suffused with purplish red and irrorated with 

 fuscous, a small discoidal spot and postmedial line slightly angled at vein 6. 

 Habitat.— Tibet, Yatung. Exp. 30—34 mill. 

 Sect. III. (Episilia). Antennae of male ciliated. 



A. Forewing rufous isochroma. 



B. Forewing brownish grey ., monogramma. 



1634c. Episilia isochroma, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. IV., p. 502, pi- 



73, f. 20 (1903). 



Head and thorax rufous ; abdomen greyish ochreous, the anal tuft and 

 ventral surface rufous. Forewing ferruginous red, with a few silvery-blue 

 scales on inner and terminal areas ; obicular represented by an obscure dark 

 point, the reniform by a slight lunule ; faint traces of a postmedial line bent 

 outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4 ; traces of a 

 subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hindwing 

 ochreous white ; the costal area slightly tinged with fuscous and the terminal 

 area in female ; cilia pale rufous ; the underside with slight discoidal point and 

 traces of postmedial line. 



Habitat —Tibet, Yatung. Exp. $ 28, $ 30 mill. 



1634rf. Episilia monogramma, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. IV., p. 509, 

 pi. 73, f. 27 (1903). 



Head and thorax grey pencilled with brown, sometimes suffused with 

 fuscous; abdomen brownish grey. Forewing brownish grey, thickly irrorated 

 with black ; a waved sub-basal line from costa to submedian fold •, an oblique 

 waved antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform greyish, with pale annuli 

 defined by blackish, the former elliptical ; a waved diffused medial shade, 

 angled outward to lower angle of cell ; the postmedial line strongly dentate, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; an indistinct dentate 

 subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hindwing grey suffused with fuscous brown ; cilia 



