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I. E. decolorata, Hill. — Expanse {. to 1 inch. Fore 

 wings white, marbled with ochreous, in three broad con- 

 nected dappled bands, llind wings white. 



Anteunre of the male simple, ciliated, pale falvous : paliii 

 very small, black-brown, the tips pale brown ; head and 

 face white ; neck-ridge and thorax also white, marbled with 

 yellow-brown ; abdomen brownish-white ; lateral tufts white ; 

 anal tuft spreading, very pale j'ellow- brown. Fore wings 

 rather elongated but blunt ; costa gently arched, more so 

 toward the apex, which is bluntly nngulated : hind margin 

 gently curved ; dorsal margin rather fully i-ounded ; white 

 abundantly marbled with yellow-brown, or ochreous, placed in 

 bands ; basal line curved, very slender, followed by three 

 closely parallel similar pale yellow-brown lines ; first line 

 i-ather erect, much indented, second a little more oblique and 

 much angulated, and throwing out two strong projections in 

 the middle, both yellow-fulvous or ochreous-brown ; these 

 enclose a band of yellow-brown clouds and rippled lines ; 

 outside is a broken stripe of the white ground colour, 

 followed by a series of yellow-brown stripes separated bj- 

 slender white lines, the second of which is the subterminal, 

 and like the rest, is abundantly indented; extreme hind 

 margin edged with red-brown dots ; cilia yellowish-white 

 clouded with yellow-brown. Hind wings evenly rounded 

 behind ; silky- white, faintly clouded along the hind-mar- 

 giual region with pale yellow-brown ; cilia lirownish-white. 

 Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings pale tawny, marbled with 

 white ; a black streak beyond the middle of the costa is 

 followed by the largest patch of white, and this by some 

 rippled yellow-brown clouding. Hind wings brownish- 

 white crossed by two distinct yellow-brown lines and faint 

 indications of others. I'ody and legs pale yellow-brown. 



Only a little variable in the depth of colour of the yellow- 

 brown stripes of the fore wings, and in the extent to which 

 the central band is united in the middle with the outer baud. 



