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EPIPLEMIDJE. 



Genus PARADECETIA. 



Paradecetia, Sicinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1894, p. 164. 



Type, P. albistellaria, Wlk. 



Range. Khasis: Burma. 



Palpi short and porrect; antennae with short, thick, curved, nni- 

 seriate branches. Fore wing with the apex produced and acute ; 

 vein 5 from above the middle of discocellulars ; 6 and 7 stalked ; 

 8; 9, 10 stalked ; 10 anastomosing with 11, which also anastomoses 

 with 12. Hind wing with vein 5 from above middle of disco- 

 cellulars. 



3034. Paradecetia albistellaria, Wlk. Cat. xxv, p. 1522. 



Ochreous white. Fore wing 

 slightly speckled with pale brown ; 

 the apex crimson, with a fulvous 

 line from it to the middle of inner 

 margin. Hind wing with the 

 oblique line continued across it 

 and blood -red in colour, the area 

 beyond it suffused with crimson 

 and with four postinedial white 

 spots on it ; cilia rufous. 

 Hob. Khasis ; E. Pegu ; Shan States. Exp. 44 millim. 



Fip. 67. 

 Paradecetia albistellaria, 



Genus DECETIA. 

 Decetia, Wlk. Cat. xx, p. 232 (1860). 



Type, D. numicusaria, Wlk. 



Range. Assam; Calcutta; the "Western Ghats ; Ceylon; Burma. 



Palpi short and porrect ; antennae with long uniseriate branches, 

 shorter in female than in male. Fore wing with the apex produced 

 to a point, the outer margin excised below it : vein 5 from above 

 the middle of discocellulars ; 6 and 7 stalked ; 9 and 10 stalked ; 

 1 1 becoming coincident with 12. 



SECT. I. Hind wing with vein 5 from near upper angle of cell. 



3035. Decetia numicusaria, Wlk. Cat. xx, p. 95. 



Decetia capetusaria, Wlk. Cot. 



xx, p. 233; C.^S. no. 32'24. 

 Drepanodes circulitaria, Wlk. 



Cat. xxvi, p. 1489. 



c? . Pale ochreous brown ; 

 wings irrorated with fus- 

 cous ; a very oblique ferru- 

 ginous line from the apex 



of fore wing: to near base 

 rig. DO. ,. . . , . , 



Decetia numicusaria, <$. }. of 1Hn er margin ol hind 



wing, slightly curved near 



the apex ; some white submarginal specks towards apex of fore 

 wing ; cilia rufous. 



