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3053. Epiplema conflictaria, Wlk. Cat. xxiii, p. 851. 

 Erosia exprimataria, Wlk. Cat. xxiii, p. 851. 

 Erosia ditfiniaria, Wlk. Cat. xxiii, p. 852. 



Erosia secutaria, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1645. 

 Dirades parvula, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 402, pi. 186, fig. 5 : 



C. Sf S. no. 3065. 

 Dirades lilaciua, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 402, pi. 186, fig. 4 : 



C. $ S. no. 3061. 



Pale purplish grey ; head fuscous. Eore wing irrorated with 

 brown ; an indistinct slightly waved postmedial line with a fuscous 

 or fuscous and ochreous blotch on it at inner margin and in some 

 specimens another at lower angle of cell; a lunulate marginal 

 dark band from the apex to vein 4. Hind wing with the inner 

 half irrorated with brown ; an ochreous fascia striated with brown 

 from the base below median nervure to lower angle of cell, where 

 it meets a band on the discocellulars ; a waved postmedial line 

 produced outwards to an angle at vein 4, where there is a leaden 

 and chestnut patch beyond it and a chestnut patch inside it on 

 vein 2 ; a brown and chestnut marginal lunulate band from veins 

 1 to 6. Underside of hind wing grey or whitish. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Nagas : Ceylon ; Burma ; Perak ; Singapore ; 

 Sumatra; Java; Borneo; Ceram ; Solomons. Esrp. 18-29 

 millim. 



3054. Epiplema albida, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 102, pi. 150, fig. 10. 

 Erosia lanigera, Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix, p. 137, pi. 157, fig. 13. 



cJ . Pale violaceous grey ; frons dark brown. Eore wing 

 slightly irrorated with dark brown ; indistinct red-brown ante- 

 and postmedial excurved lines, the latter more or less indented 

 and approaching the former below the cell ; a submarginal series 

 of red-brown specks below the apex. Hind wing more thickly 

 irrorated with brown ; the ante- and postmedial lines more 

 prominent and angled outwards at vein 4, where there are rufous 

 patches inside them ; a submarginal lunulate line. Female more 

 prominently irrorated with brown ; fore wing with a complete 

 marginal series of lunules ; hind wing without the patches on the 

 lines. 



The form lanigera from Ceylon has the striae darker ; the ante- 

 and postmedial lines of both wings nearer together and filled in 

 with fuscous. 



Hob. Nilgiris ; Ceylon. Exp. 24 millim. 



3055. Epiplema ruptaria, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 259; C. $ S. no. 3070. 



White ; palpi and frons marked with fuscous. Fore wing with 

 fuscous striae on the base of costa ; very indistinct ante- and 

 postmedial ochreous curved bands ; a spot on costa towards apex 

 and one at outer angle ; a dark submarginal spot between veins 4 

 and 5 ; some ochreous striae on the marginal area below the apex 

 sometimes developed into a patch. Hind wing with indistinct 



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