90 . EPIPASCHIID.E. 



halfway between the eud of the cell and the outer margin ; the upper radial is emitted from 

 tlie anterior angle of the cell ; the discocellulur veinlct is inarched, very delicate, and only 

 partially developed ; the lower radial is emitted from the posterior angle of the cell close to 

 the second and third median branches; the first median is emitted rather nearer than usual 

 to the second ; submedian ^ ein looped towards the base : secondaries with the costal vein 

 straight, passing so close to the subcostal vein beyond the cell that it almost seems to fork 

 from it : subcostal with two branches whicli run pai-allel and close to each other for about 

 one fourth of the distance between the cell and outer margin; discocellular veiulet unequally 

 angulatcd ; median branches and radial vein arranged as in the primaries : the wings are 

 coarsely sealed towards the base on the upjJer surface, and the secondaries are ornamented by 

 about four long, black, needle-like scales emitted above the lower subcostal branch. Body 

 robust ; head large, crested between the antenn;e, the male with long recurved plumes, with 

 prominent eyes and thick erect palpi with long needle-like terminal joint ; the abdomen 

 barely exceeds the secondaries in length ; antennae simple, slender ; legs thick, but tolerably 

 long and with well-developed spurs. 



Belonepholis striata. (Plate CXXXIY. fig. 3.) 



Wings above rose-pink, basal area broadly whity brown speckled with black, and followed 

 on the primaries by a black-edged angulatcd pale band which tapers towards inner margin ; a 

 broad and slightly arched, central, golden-testaceous baud; a slender, arched, diseal line 

 followed by a purplish-edged chrome-yellow band ; external border dark glossy red, crossed 

 by black-edged silvery-bkie veins; fringe with a cream-coloured liasal lino, followed by a 

 glossy red stripe ; the outer half silvery white ; costal border of primaries whitish, speckled 

 with black to beyond the middle : body whity brown, speckled with black ; the head, collar, 

 and anal segment reddish. Under surface sericeous, pale golden with pink reflections, the 

 outer borders and a diseal line rosy purplish; inner border of primaries and pectus silvery. 

 E.\pansc of wings 31 millira. 



Dharmsala. 



We have a small and imj)crfect specimen of this species (24 millim. in expanse), obtained 

 in Japan by Mr. George Lewis ; also a second male example in good condition from the same 

 locality. 



The above genus is one of the most tedious to describe, the subcostal branches being so 

 much crowded together and tlie costal border so densely sealed that, even when the wing is 

 denuded, the coarse ribbing of the surface and the character of the veins render examination 

 extremely difiiiult. 



