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rather ample, vein 5 slender, curved, arising below the 

 middle of the cross-bar. 



This genus includes many species in India and elsewhere, 

 but we have only one. 



1. E. lucipara, L. — Expanse 1| to If inch. Fore wings 

 pale purple-brown ; central band and hind margin velvety 

 black-brown ; reniform stigma large, lunate, pale yellow ;: 

 hind wings whitish-brown. 



Antennfe of the male simple, minutely ciliated, dark 

 brown ; palpi curved up, loosely tufted, purple-brown ; head 

 and thorax densely covered with deep purple-brown scales ; 

 top crest small ; back crest very large and conspicuous, 

 triple, each tip folded, dark chocolate ; fascicles dirty white ; 

 abdomen glistening pale purplish-brown ; dorsal ridge of the 

 second segment ornamented with a graceful crest of tall 

 erect dark chocolate scales thickened towards their tips ; 

 sometimes small crests arise from another or perhaps two 

 more segments, but these are obscure and almost prostrate ; 

 lateral tufts spreading, pointed, conspicuous, dark chocolate ; 

 anal tuft broad, fan-like, with three points, purple-black. 

 Fore wings rather short ; costa gently curved ; apex bluntly 

 rounded ; hind margin regularly curved and crenulated ; 

 dorsal margin faintly hollowed ; colour purple-brown 

 clouded with darker and shaded with pale fulvous ; basal 

 line deep black, broken into short streaks, the lower of these 

 curved, and pointed outwardly, first line oblique, deep black, 

 nearly straight but with a curve close to each margin ; second 

 line conspicuously black to the base of the reniform stigma, 

 above that very obscure ; subterminal line faintly brownish, 

 mainly indicated by a margin, on each side, of obscure pale 

 smoky-brown clouds ; orbicular stigma large, open on its 

 upper side and dark purple-grey to the costa, edged otherwise 

 with black ; reniform stigma conspicuous but ill-defined out- 

 Avardly, pale yellow, clouded with pale fulvous and edged 

 on the side toward the base with black ; the whole central 



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