EpiplemidsB /rom the Khasia Hills. 231 



the hind wings are tailed at veins 4 and 7, and the costa 

 excised in middle, with a frin2:e of hairs on each side of the 

 excision. 



Genus Epiplema, H.-S. 

 Epiplema castanea, sp. n. 



Fore wings fawn-grej, freckled with blackish ; the median 

 area filled up with chestnut-brown ; first line from costa at 

 one fourth to inner margin at one third, black-brown and 

 distinct, bluntly angled on the subcostal and median nervures ; 

 second from costa beyond middle to inner margin at three 

 fourths, angled outwards on the subcostal, inwards on the 

 radial, with a blunt prominence on veins 3 and 4 and another 

 on the submedian above the inner margin ; marginal third 

 clouded in places with darker, especially above anal angle ; a 

 brown-black curved marginal line along the subapical 

 excision. Hind wings the same, but the chestnut shade of 

 the median area extends also over the marginal area except at 

 the anal angle and along the inner margin, which remain, 

 like the basal area, clear grey ; fringes concolorous. Head, 

 thorax, and abdomen grey ; face and palpi darker. Under- 

 side grey, freckled with black ; the fore wings darker than 

 the hind ones ; the single female is paler throughout than 

 the male. 



Expanse of wings 26 millim. 



Both sexes from the Khasias. 



The fore wings have the hind margin deeply excised from 

 vein 7 to 3, slightly excised again between 3 and 2 and 2 and 

 the anal angle; the hind wings have the hind margin tailed 

 at vein 7, with a small tooth at veins 6 and 4. The neura- 

 tion of the hind wings is abnormal; the discocellular and 

 radial are absent ; the inner marginal area is restricted, the 

 inner margin itself being in the male folded over; there is a 

 bed of dark scales towards the base beneath the median 

 nervure and a long tuft of pale ochreous hairs from the base 

 of the wing ; veins 2, 3, and 4 are visible in the female, but 

 vein 2 is either absent or hidden by the fold in the male. In 

 both sexes the costa of hind wings is excised in middle, with 

 a strong tuft of hairs along it on either side of the excision. 



Epiplema jlaviguttay sp. n. 



Fore wings very much as in E. moza, Butler, but the three 

 dark submarginal specks are more or less confluent and form 

 a dark brown crescent. In the hind wings, instead of the 



