128 EPIPLEMID.E. 



Fore wing with some prominent dark striae on the costa; an 

 ochreous postmedial line excurved beyond the cell and angled at 

 veins 6 and 4, and with a prominent chocolate streak on it from 

 costa to vein 6 and blotch on inner margin ; a chocolate marginal 

 band from apex to vein 3. Hind wing with the postmedial line 

 evenly waved ; a lunulate submarginal band between the tails. 

 Underside of hind wing whitish. 



Hob. Assam ; Canara ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Audamans ; Pulo 

 Laut. Exp., 3 24, $ 32 millim. 



3050. Epiplema tenebrosa, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 137, pi. 167, fig. 3. 



$ . Dark purple-grey. Fore wing with indistinct darker striae ; 

 an indistinct medial excurved red-brown line ; a similar slightly 

 waved postmedial line ; a submarginal blackish maculate line from 

 below the apex to vein 4. Hind wing with a subbasal red-brown 

 line produced outwards to a very acute angle at lower end of cell ; 

 a medial line excurved at middle nearly to the margin ; a marginal 

 lunulate band from the apex to the tail at vein 4, where there is a 

 spot. 



Hob. Pundaloya, Ceylon. Earp. 18 millim. 



3051. Epiplema obscnraria, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 400, pi. 186 



fig. 6; C. 8f S. no. 3063. 



$ . Pale chestnut ; head purplish grey. Fore wing slightly 

 striated with brown ; the base of costa purplish grey ; an 

 oblique medial red-brown streak from the costa to above a semi- 

 circular spot on inner margin ; an obliquely curved line from the 

 costa beyond the middle to outer angle ; some submarginal dark 

 specks below the apex. Hind wing slightly striated with brown ; 

 a white and chestnut streak from the base in lower part of cell to 

 the lower angle, where it is joined to an acutely angled double line 

 of fuscous, chestnut, and silvery-white scales ; a postmedial chest- 

 nut line acutely angled outwards at vein 4, and from thence to 

 inner margin outlined with white ; a lunulate marginal line from 

 the tail at vein 6 to vein 1. 



Hub. Pundaloya, Ceylon. Exp. 22 millim. 



3052. Epiplema quadristrigata, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1647. 

 Epiplema pulverea, Hmpm. III. Het. ix, p. 137, pi. 157, fig. 4. 



c? . Ochreous white ; vertex of head and collar white ; antennae 

 ochreous. Fore wing thickly striated and powdered with purplish 

 black-brown ; an indistinct highly angled medial black line and 

 rxiMirved slightly waved postmedial line ; a series of submarginal 

 Mark specks. Hind wing striated with red-brown, especially on 

 iiiiiiT area; a postmedial line slightly angled at vein 4; four 

 nibmargwa] black specks between the tails. 



Jlab. Ceylon; ? My sol. Exp. 18 millim. 



