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20. E. pimpinellata, Hiih.; denotata, »SV/(. Manual. — 

 Expanse 1 inch. Fore wings a little elongated ; rich light 

 brown shaded toward the costa to grey -brown; and having 

 numerous slender sinuous transverse brown lines blackened 

 toward the costa ; discal spot elongated, erect, black ; median 

 nervure spotted with black ; subtermiual line white. Hind 

 wings greyish-white. 



Antennje of the male simple, ciliated, shining light brown : 

 palpi shoi't and blunt, dull chocolate ; head and the con- 

 spicuous neck-ridge whitish-brown dusted with black ; thorax 

 pale reddish-brown ; the basal two segments of the abdomen 

 ashy-grey, edged behind with red-brown or dark brown, re- 

 maining segments reddish-brown, a series of minute black 

 tufts embellishes the dorsal ridge ; anal tuft rather long, 

 compressed, ashy-grey shaded with i-ed-brown. Fore wings 

 rather elongated ; costa flatly arched, more so toward the 

 apex, which is bluntly rounded ; hind margin smoothly and 

 evenly curved ; dorsal margin short and a little filled out ; 

 colour pale reddish-brown much shaded on the costal half 

 with ashy-grey ; transverse lines numerous, brown, oblique 

 and somewhat parallel, very slender and faint, but each 

 arising from a blacker spot on the costa, and every one empha- 

 sised by a black bar across the median nervure or its lower 

 branch (vein 2) thus producing a seiies of black dots on these 

 nervures ; basal line single ; first line duplicated rather widely 

 apart : then a double central line crosses, and bends back at. 

 the discal spot — which is large, elongated, and deep black — 

 this double line and a single one immediately following it are 

 the blackest on the margin of the wing ; following, but outside 

 a stripe of the ashy shading, is the second line, obscure and 

 rather dotted ; some distance from this is the subterminal 

 line, white, very irregular and repeatedly angulated, but 

 -complete and not widened into spots; extreme hind margin 

 edged with very fine black streaks ; cilia shining ashy-grey. 

 Hind wings broad and rounded behind ; greyish-white, re- 

 peatedly but faintly barred on the dorsal region with jjale 



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