I'ROCEEDl.VGS OF THE TIIIRU E.VTO.MOLOGKAL MEETING 981 



Epvpyrops poliogiapha, Hmpsn. 

 In the Jouniid of the Bombay Natttral History Society, Vol. XX, p. 109 

 (June 1910) Sir George Hanipsoi\ described Epipijrops poliographa, 

 as follows : — 



'■ Female.- Head, thorax and abdomen very dark olive-brown mixed 

 with grey. Forewing very dark olive-brown thickly and 

 evenly reticulated with indistinct silvery-grey markings. 

 Hindwing uniform very dark olive-brown. 



Habitat. Ceyion ; Mankulam (iMackwdod), Yati}-antota (Green). 



Exp. 16-26 mill. 



Type in B. M." 



This species is also figured on Plate F, figure 12, of the same volume 

 (opposite p. 1047). 



The description is short and unsatisfactory and it is unfortunate 

 that Hampson's species was described from females and the great 

 difference in wing-expanse possibly indicates that more than one species 

 is included under name of iwliographa, but the description and figure 

 given seem to refer best to specimens bred by me from larvae found on 

 Eurybrachys tomentosa at Pollibetta, in South Coorg, in November 

 1915, and I conclude that these sjiecimens are E. poliognipha, Ilmi^sn. 



Epipyrops ei'.rybi'icliydis, n. sp. 



Mule. Expanse 11-12-5 mm. Antenna witli twelve to fourteen 

 branches, pectinations whitish, shaft and branches streaked with 

 pale brown. Head and thorax greyish-fuscous. Abdomen short and 

 rather stout, not exceeding hindwing, dark fuscous narrowly ringed 

 with greyish at apices of segments, anal tuft pale greyish; underside 

 of abdomen whitish. Legs brownish, irrorated with whitish. 



Forewing broadly triangular, apex moderately acute, tornus slightly 

 rounded, violet grey-brown thickly suffused on basal two-thirds of wing 

 with dark olive-brown, which tends to form a recurved fascia from 

 costa to lower edge of cell at f ; a narrow indistinct antemarginal olive 

 brown fascia from costa to near dorsum. (In other specimens the 

 markings are more obscure and the wing may be described as dark 

 olive-brown irregularly sprinlvled with greyish scales tending to form 

 indistinct transverse markings, especially towards termen, and spots 

 along the costal region). Cilia white, brown at apex and brownish 

 around tornus. 



Hindwing fusfous, irrorated with whitish on costal area. Cilia white 

 sometimes brownish around apex and tornus. 



