AE^OPTERON.— EPIPLEMA. 137 



Araeopteron pictale. (Plate CLXVIII. fig. 19.) 

 Expanse | inch. 



Male. Fore wing greyish white; sonie dark strigse on the costa and white specks towards 

 the apex ; two orange spots above the middle and end of cell ; a dark streak below tlie cell 

 near the base ; a black spot in the end of the cell, with a brown mark below it towards the 

 inner margin ; a large black patch on the outer margin below the apex ; a series of black 

 marginal points. Hind wing grey ; the disk suffused with ferruginous ; a black streak 

 across the end of the cell ; a black apical patch and series of black marginal points. Under, 

 side fuscous. 



EPIPLEMID^. 



Epiplema tenebrosa. (Plate CLVII. fig. 3.) 

 Erosia * tenebrosa, Hmjjsn. PI. CLYII. fig. 3. 



Expanse f inch. 



Female. Dark purple-grey, with numerous black strigae. Fore wing with a dark medial 

 band from the costa one-third from base, bent outwai-d to the lower end of the cell, then 

 inwards to the centre of the inner margin ; similar irregular postmedial and antemargiual 

 bands. Hind wing with an irregular suhbasal band strongly denticulate at the centre ; an 

 outwardly-curved band in continuation of the first band of the fore wing, irregular towards the 

 anal angle; an irregular marginal band toothed at the subapical projection and with a small 

 black-centred white ocellus at the projection of the first median nervule. Underside uniform 

 fuscous. Shaft of antennae whitish in front. 



Allied to E. prunaria, Moore. 



Epiplema pnlverea. (Plate CLVII. fig. 4.) 

 Dirades pulvereus, Hmpsn. PL CLVII. fig. 4. 



Expanse ^ | inch. 



Male. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreons white ; antennae ochreous ; frons and palpi 

 blackish. Wings pale ochreous, thickly irrorated with brown scales and strigae, and crossed 

 by blackish ante- and postmedial lines angled outwards at the middle. Fore wing with a 

 submarginal series of black specks. Hind wing with four similar specks between the first 

 subcostal and second median nervules ; the first subcostal and second median nervules produced 

 into short tails ; no fold or tuft of hair on inner margin. Abdomen with a pair of lateral 

 anal tufts of hair. 



Epiplema lanigera. (Plate CLVII. fig. 13.) 



Erosia lanigera, Hmpsn. PL CLVII. fig. 13. 



Expanse ? | inch. 



Female. Pale purplish grey, the wings irrorated with dark brown scales. Fore wing 



* Erosia, Guen., is a Oeometrkl, and these species should be placed in E£ij)lema, H.-S. 



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