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excurved black antemedial sinuous line, and a postmedial angulated line ; both out- 

 wardly bordered by a cinereous-white line, of which the latter is more prominent ; 

 traces also of a pale sinuous submarginal line : hindwing with a less distinct discal 

 angulated line, but with broader pale outer border to the indented parts only ; a 

 pale ochreous-white submarginal sinuous fascia, which is broadest in its middle. 

 Front of head, and palpi blackish ; forelegs with brown bands. 



Expanse ^%- inch. 



Ceylon. 



EUPITHECIA PALP ATA (Plate 206, Fig. 6, ? ). 

 Cidaria palpata, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxv. p. 1404 (1862). 



Male and female. Forewing sap-green ; crossed by five broad sinuous-bordered 

 blackish-speckled fascia, the outer borders of which are white-edged; a black 

 lunular spot at end of the cell ; cilia brownish-ochreous with square black spots : 

 hindwing cinereous, crossed by very indistinct blackish denticulated fasciis and a 

 marginal band, the latter traversed by a sinuous white submarginal line. Cilia 

 ochreous, with black spots. Body and palpi sap-green, black-speckled; legs 

 cinereous, with black bands. 



Expanse tV inch. 



" Newra Eliya" (Mackwood). 



EUPITHECIA VARIEGATA (Plate 206, Fig. 5). 



Forewing crossed by alternate sap-green and purplish-red fascife, of which the 

 antemedial and postmedial are angulated and blackish-edged ; a black lunular spot at 

 end of the cell : hindwing cinereous. Body and palpi sap-green ; abdomen with 

 purple-red bands ; legs with brown bauds. 



Expanse to inch. 



Ceylon. 



EUPITHECIA VIRESCENS (Plate 206, Fig. 4). 



Forewing dull sap-green ; crossed by a nearly straight basal and antemedial, an 

 ancrulated postmedial and a submarginal brown-speckled blackish-edged fascia : 

 hindwing cinereous. Cilia of both wings ochreous, with dusky-brown spots. Body 

 and palpi dull sap-green ; legs with dusky-brown bands. 



Expanse t'j inch. 



Ceylon. 



EUPITHECIA ATTENUATA (Plate 206, Fig. 3, $ ). 



Purpurescent cinereous-brown. Forewings crossed by a basal, subbasal, ante- 

 medial, postmedial, and a less defined submarginal slender whitish-denticulated 

 ano'ulated line ; the latter with a larger dentate white mark below the middle : 



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