EUMELIA.— EPHYRA. Ill 



PALYAD^. 



Enmelia olivacea. (Plate CLI. fig. 17.) 



Expanse 1§ inch. 



Male. Yellowish olive-brown, uniformly marked with purple-bi'own strigae ; cilia 

 chocolate-brown. Fore wing with a slightly curved and somewhat indistinct purple-brown 

 transverse band one fourth from base ; both wings crossed by a similar but distinct medial 

 band. Underside like the upperside, but more thickly marked with strigse; a maculate 

 purple-brown band from costa one fifth from apex to outer angle, continued as a submarginal 

 maculate band on hind wing. 



EPHYRID^. 



Ephyra rubra. (Plate CLI. fig. 8.) 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Female. Pinkish red, thickly marked with brown strigae and patches, so close together on 

 costal area of both wings as to make them appear quite brown; a small black spot at end of 

 cell of each wing ; cilia yellow. Underside pinkish white, with numerous faint brown striae. 



Near E. abhadraca, but much redder and without the pale spots of that species. 



Ephyra macnlifascia. (Plate CLI. fig. 9.) 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Male with bipectinated, female with simple, antennae. Bright ochreous yellow, irrorated 

 with blackish scales, wliich are thickest along costa of fore wing. Fore wing with an ante- 

 medial blackish band, obsolescent except for a spot below the costa and another on submediau 

 nervure. Both wings with a conspicuous black spot with paler centre at end of cell; a 

 maculate postmedial black band, highly concave to first median uervule, then straight to 

 inner margin. Underside as above, but thickly marked with stride ; the markings less 

 distinct ; the antemedial baud of fore wing quite obsolete. 



Nearest to E. invexata. 



