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THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 



SUPPLEMENTARY PAPER TO THE VOLUMES IN 

 " THE FAUNA OF BRITISH INDIA." 



SERIES II, PART VII. 



By Sir G. F. Hampson, Bart., f.z.s., f.e.s. 



{Continued from page 219 of this Volume.) 



Moths of India — 5a, 



EriPLEMID/E. 



30406. Epiplema Flavistriga, Warr. Nov. Zool. VIII,, p, 21, 

 Pale brownish ochreous ; fi-ons and palpi black ; wings irrorated with 

 dark scales. Forewing with curved brown postmedial line ending in three 

 black marks above inner margin ; two conjoined rufous lunulate patches on 

 outer margin at the excisions below apex, the lower large ; a cloudy fuscous 

 patch towards outer angle. Hindwing with tails at veins 6 and 4 ; a yellow 

 fascia in a fold from base through the cell to the postmedial line, met by an 

 oblique black striga from a spot at upper angle of cell ; the postmedial line 

 formed by two fine brown lines very strongly angled at vein 4, with a black 

 mark on its inner side at costa and others between the veins below the angle, 

 some leaden suffusion between the angle and a rufous marginal patch at 

 lower tail ; a black marginal line between upper tail and the rufous patch 

 which has two black specks on it, the lower with whitish lunule round it. 

 Habitat. — Khasis. Exjo. 30 mill. 



3041c. Epiplema delicatula, Warr. Nov. Zool, IV,, p. 202. pi. 5,, f, 7. 

 $ . Head, thorax and abdomen white, irrorated with dark brown ; vertex 

 of head pure white ; wings white, thickly irrorated and striated with dark 

 brown ; the veins finely streaked with brown. Forewing with an erect ante- 

 medial line from subcostal to inner margin ; a discocellular line ; an oblique 

 line from costa beyond middle to outer angle; a spot on margin between veins 

 6 7 ; the margin deeply crenulate from vein 4 to outer angle, Hindwing 

 with fine ante- and postmedial dark brown lines, oblique from costa to near 

 vein 2 where they are acutely angled ; a fine marginal line ; the margin 

 produced to prominent points at veins 2, 3, 4, 7. 

 Habitat. — Khasis. Exp. 26 mill. 



3045a, Epiplema atrifasciata. Warr. Nov. Zool, VI., p. 9. 

 Forewing with the termen very slightly excised above middle. 

 ^. Head, thorax and abdomen grey-brown ; frons black-brown, Fore- 

 wing grey -brown, with darker strife ; an indistinct anteraedial line angled on 

 median nervure and oblique towards costa and inner margin ; the postmedial 

 line oblique and with a strong black shade on its inner side from costa to 

 vein 4 where it is obtusely angled and with sonie black suffusion on its inner 

 side on inner area ; traces of a sinaous subterminal line and some dark 

 suffusion towards inner margin, Hindwing grey-brown with black stria) ; a 

 V-shaped mark at lower angle of cell with its lower arm whitish ; a broad 



