OEUDIZA. EPIPLEMA. 125 



Fore wing with grey striae on costa and outer area; outwardly- 

 oblique anteinedial and medial brown lines. Hind wing with an 



outwardly-oblique medial brown 



%^^^^T / line angled at veins 3 and 2, then 

 ^5==:^ / recurved to inner margin ; outer 

 ^r^^/ jr area with a yellowish tinge ; two 

 -j^^. ^l marginal brown lines from apex 

 KjJ^SS Iw to the tail at vein 4, where there 



M\v\7 * s a black spot just inside the 



^"^\^ margin. 



pig .70. Hob. Sikhim; Khasis ; Poona ; 



Orudiza protheclaria, $ . \ m Canara ; Travancore ; Burma ; 



Java. Exp. 36 milliin. 



Genus EPIPLEMA. 

 Epiplema, Herr.-Schaffer, Samml. aussereur. Schmett. p. 26 (1850). 



Type, E. acutangularia, H.-S., from Brazil. 



Range. Neotropical, Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australian 

 regions, and the Palaearctic in 8. Kussia, Amur, and Japan. 



Palpi porrect, projecting beyond the frons. Fore wing with 

 vein 5 from the upper angle of cell ; 6 and 7 stalked ; 8 and 9 

 stalked ; 10 usually from cell, rarely stalked with 8 and 9. Hind 

 wing with veins 3 and 4 from angle of cell ; 5 from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6 and 7 from upper angle. Wings held more or 

 less apart in repose. 



SECT. I. Male with the antennas thickened and flattened. 



A. Wings ivith outer margin indented 'below the apex and slightly 

 excised from thence to vein 4. 



3041. Epiplema columbaris, Butl HI Het. vii, p. 82, pi. 133, fig. 8. 



3 . Dull hair-brown. Fore wing with indistinct darker striae, 

 some of which form indistinct ante- and postmedial nearly erect 

 lines ; cilia ochreous. Hind wing similar ; the indistinct lines 

 subbasal and antemedial. 



Hob. Dharmsala ; Simla. Exp. 30 millim. 



B. Fore wing with the outer margin deeply excised from veins 7 to 4. 

 Hind wing with two indentures between the anal angle and vein 3. 



3042. Epiplema edentata, n. sp. 



c? . Head and collar white ; thorax fuscous. Fore wing white ; 

 the whole basal area except the costa clouded and speckled with 

 fuscous ; a double oblique fuscous line from below the apex to 

 inner margin, the area beyond it clouded and striated with fuscous ; 

 some dark specks on the costa towards apex and rufous marks on 



