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line ; a dark speck in cell ; the outer area pale brown, with some 

 fuscous suffusion and two dark specks near apex ; some white 

 specks on costa towards apex and a marginal series of minute dark 

 specks. Abdomen and hind wing fuscous brown. Underside with 

 cell-spot and traces of two postmedial lines. 

 Hob. Sikhim ; Khasis. Esop. 50 millim. 



Genus EPISPAEIS. 



Episparis, Wlk. Cat. x, p. 475 (1856). 

 Neviasca, Wlk. Cat. xvi, p. 7 (1858). 

 Pradiota, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1572 (1866). 



Type, E. penetrata, Wlk., from Africa. 



Range. Ethiopian and Oriental regions. 



Palpi upturned and hairy ; the 3rd joint minute ; a short frontal 

 tuft ; antennae bipectinated to two-thirds length in male ; thorax 

 and abdomen clothed with coarse hair ; tibiae hairy. Fore wing 

 with the costa straight ; the outer margin excised from vein 5 to 

 outer angle. Hind wing with the outer margin produced to a 

 point at vein 3 and excised below the point. 



2613. Episparis tortuosalis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 81, pi. 7, fig. 5 : 



C. # 8. no. 2841. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown ; the tarsi white. Wings 

 with red-brown shades and dark striae. Fore wing with an in- 

 distinct highly curved antemedial line ; a dark speck in cell and 

 minute white lunule on discocellulars ; a purplish patch on disk ; 

 an indistinct postmedial line, highly excurved beyond cell and with 

 a sinuous whitish line beyond it, terminating at outer angle, where 

 it is joined by another white line from near apex, which is dentate 

 below the costa ; the margin and cilia whitish below the angle. 

 Hind wing with indistinct medial band ; a postmedial whitish line, 

 highly angled outwards at vein 5 ; a yellow patch on centre of 

 outer margin. Underside of fore wing with large, triangular, apical, 

 chocolate white-edged patch ; hind wing with the medial area white, 

 with a white postmedial line and black spot at end of cell; a 

 crenulate fuscous submarginal line. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Nilgiris. Exp. 56 millim. 



2614. Episparis varialis, Wlk. Cat. xvi, p. 7 : Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii 



pi. 175, fig. 12 ; C. 8f S. no. 2842. 

 Episparis exprimens, Wlk. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) i, p. 106 ; C. $ S. 



no. 2839. 



Episparis signata, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 1032. 

 Episparis davallia, Fcld. ltd*. Aov. pi. 120, fig. 41. 

 Pradiota sejunctata, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1572; C. # S. no. 2840. 



Pale dull reddish brown. Fore wing with subbasal and ante- 

 medial white lines, the latter with the part below the cell displaced 



