210 CATALOGUE OF 



Female. Pale testaceous, fusiform, smooth, shiinngf. Head extending 

 a little beyond ihe prothorax, slightly speckled with black ; three angular 

 black spots, one on the front and one on each side of the face. Eyes pale, 

 wide apart. Third joint of the palpi piceous. Antennae piceou?, testaceous 

 towards the base. Prothorax thickly red-speckled ; fore border and hind 

 border with black dots; four black patches, two in the disk, and two more 

 widely separated near the hind border, which is slightly elongated ; sides 

 rounded, slanting outward from the fore border, which is slightly trnncated. 

 Abdomen above with large quadrate black spots along each side; under 

 side with a black spot on the fore border of each segment; supra-anal 

 lamina bilobed. Legs stout, rather short; femora with short slender spines ; 

 tibiae with black points at the base of the spines. Wings extending much 

 beyond the abdomen ; tips rounded. Fore wings thickly overspread with 

 reddish marks which form irregular undulating transverse lines; some dark 

 brown marks along the costa and along the humeral trunk. Hind wings 

 and covered part of the right fore wing reddish cinereous. Length of the 

 body 8 lines; of the wings 18 lines. 



It resembles E. stipata, E. micropila and E. caliginosa in structure, 

 but the hind border of the prothorax is less elongated. 



a. Sarawak, From Mr. Wallace's collection. 



Epilampra plena. 



Fcem. Testacea, fusiformis, suhtus pallida (estacea ; caput prothoracem 

 perpaullo superans, vertice sordido, plaga transversa fasciaque 

 anteriore transversa nigricantibus ; ocvli invirem remoli ; antenna 

 fuhce ; prothorax riifo conspersus et guttatus, gutlis antivis posticis- 

 que nigris, vittis duabus nigricantibus abbreviatis nigra testaceoque 

 notatis, margine postico subproducto ; abdomen plagis laterulibus 

 utomisque nigris; alee anticte rufo dense varia, abdomen longe 

 superantes, gutlis costalibus plagisque subcostalibus nigris; ala 

 posticce fuscce. 



Female. Testaceous, fusiform, smooth, shining, paler beneath. 

 Head extending very little beyond the prothorax ; vertex dingy, paler 

 about the eyes ; a blackish transverse patch between the sockets of the 

 antennae and an anterior slender curved blackish band. Eyes piceous, 

 wide apart. Antennse tawny. Prothorax much narrower in front, longer 

 than half its breadth, thickly covered with minute red speckles and with 

 some red dots; some black dots along the fore border and a row of larger 

 black dots along the hind border; two broad abbreviated blackish stripes 

 formed by more or less confluent speckles and accompanied by various 

 black and pale testaceous dots; fore border not truncated ; sides slightly 

 rounded, slanting outward to the hind border, which is slightly elongated. 

 Abdomen beneath with a row of black patches on each side and with black 

 speckles of various size; supra-anal lamina bilobed. Ccrci lanceolate, 

 slender. Legs moderately long and stout; tibiae with black points at the 

 base of the spines. Wings rounded at the tips, extending much beyond 

 the abdomen. Fore wings thickly mottled with red; costa with black 

 dots; a row of black patches along the humeral trunk. Hind wings brown- 

 Length of the body 9 lines; of the wings 18^ lines. 



