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P. Fore wing without black streaks on terminal area 

 below veins 5, 4, 3. 

 a*. Fore wing witii slight black streak below base of 

 cell, the antemedial line evenly curved from 



costa to vein 1 eclrapela. 



b*. Fore wing without black streak below base of 

 cell, the antemedial line waved. 

 a^. Fore wing suffused witli brown, the sub- 

 terminal line dentate at veins 4,3 n/'g/is. 



b'. Fore wing whitish suffused with fuscous, the 



subterniinal line not dentate at veins 4, 3 ... circunivadls. 

 b. Fore wing with the postmedial line nearly straight below 

 vein 2. 

 «'. Fore wing with the ground-colour reddisli brown. 

 a^. Fore wing with the orbicular round, the reniform 



small, lunulate mendax. 



b"^. Fore wing with the orbicular elongate, the reniform 



large, constricted at middle rcnati. 



i'. Fore wing whitish tinged with reddish brown slloies. 



c^. Fore wing whitish tinged with grey-brown christo2)hi. 



*1445. Epia picturata. (Plate LXXXIV. fig. 15.) 



Dianthoecia picturata, Alpli. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xvii. p. 73, pi. 3. f. 53 

 (1882) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 161. 



S . Head and thorax grey mixed witli dark brown ; tegulse with 

 black line near upper edge ; patagia with black line near edges ; 

 tarsi banded with black. Fore wing grey with a violaceous tinge 

 and largely suffused with brown except on marginal areas ; 

 subbasal line represented by a black streak excurved from costa to 

 base and a similar one from median nervure to base defined by 

 white below, and with a black streak below it curved outwards to 

 antemedial line, which is defined by white on inner side, angled 

 outwards below costa, then strongly inwards in cell, then outwards 

 to submedian fold, then recurved to vein 1 near base ; claviform 

 moderate, defined by black, a somewhat bidentate white patch 

 beyond it on base of vein 2 ; orbicular and reniform with 

 brownish centres and whitish annuli defined by black, the 

 former very oblique elliptical, open above and below, the latter 

 much curved ; postmedial line double, bent outwards below 

 costa to close to subterminal lino, then obliquely curved, the 

 inner line minutely waved, the outer sinuous, some white 

 points beyond it on costa; subterminal line whitish, defined by 

 brown on inner side and slightly on outer except towards costa, 

 obliquely curved ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia brown, with 

 whitish lines through them. Hind wing whitish tinged with 

 brown and the terminal area suffused with fuscous ; a curved 

 postmedial line defined by whitish on outer side ; a dark terminal 

 lino ; cilia whitish, with a brown line through them ; the underside 

 whitish irrorated with brown, a curved postmedial line and 

 diffused subterminal band. 



Hah. W.Turkestan, Sarawschan, Issyk-kul in Coll. riingelcr ; 

 E. Tdhkestan, Hi. Exp. 84 millim. 



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