EPIPLEMID.E. 549 



SECT. III. Antennae of male serrate and fasciculate ; fore wing with 

 the outer margin evenly rounded; hind wing with a fold on 

 inner area containing a tuft of hair. 



3063 a. Epiplema scopocera, n. sp. 



Differs from tenebrosa in the submarginal line of fore wing being 

 much more irregular and bent inwards between veins 5 and 6; 

 hind wing with the postmedial line straight and oblique from 

 costa to vein 4 where it is sharply angled ; the lunulate marginal 

 marks more prominent and marked with chestnut between the tails. 

 Underside of hind wing white in male. 



Hob. Ceylon (Green). Exp. 18-22 millim. Type in B. M. 



SECT. IV. Antennas of male bipectinated ; outer margin of fore 

 wing evenly curved, of hind wing produced to points at 

 veins 7 and 4. 



A. Fore iving with no fovea ; hind wing with no lobe at base of costa. 



3063 b. Epiplema nigrifrons, n. sp. 



c? . Whitish irrorated with fuscous brown ; frons black ; 

 antennae with the branches blackish ; wings slightly striated with 

 brown. Pore wing with prominent dark striae on outer half of 

 costa: an obsolescent postmedial ferruginous line highly excurved 

 below costa, the area beyond it more striated and suffused with 

 brown ; a dark band just inside the margin from below apex to 

 vein 4. Hind wing more uniformly irrorated and striated ; an 

 indistinct subbasal line ; a discocellular line and black speck at 

 lower angle of cell; a postmedial line double from costa to 

 vein 4 where it is strongly angled, then recurved and with a rufous 

 band on its inner edge ; a brown and black marginal band between 

 the points and a spot at vein 4 : underside white. 



Hob. Toungoo, Burma (De Niceville). Exp. 30 millim. Type 

 in B. M. 



B. Fore wing of male with a fovea below base of cell; hind wing 



with a lobe at base of costa articulating with the retinaculum as 

 well as the frenulum. 



3063 c. Epiplema pectinicornis, Dudgeon, MS. 



Grey-brown ; vertex of head white ; wings with numerous dark 

 striae. Fore wing with postmedial rufous line angled beyond 

 lower angle of cell ; a submarginal lunulate dark mark below apex. 

 Hind wing with ill-defined antemedial line ; a postmedial rufous 

 line defined by fuscous on inner side and acutely angled at vein 4 ; 

 a pale marginal line with rufous inside it and three black spots 

 between veins 5 and 2. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Bhutan (Ducljeori). Exp. 26 millim. Type 

 in B. M. 



