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■feand of black suffusion before the whitish postmedial line which is angled 

 outwards at middle ; some brown suffusion on terminal area ; a sinuous 

 subterminal line between the tails, intersected by a white streak at lower tail ; 

 a fine whitish line at base of cilia. 

 Habitat.— 'K.hisis. Exp. 24 mill. 



3045&. Epiplema eectimakginata, n. sp. (pi. C., f. 27), 

 ^. Purple-brown ; antenuEB ochreous. Forewing with the termen strongly 

 excised from apex to vein 3, where it is strongly angled ; the wing with a few 

 dark striae ; an indistinct olive-brown antemedial line angled inwards to costa ; 

 an almost straight subterminal olive-brown line with darker outer edge 

 slightly angled inwards to costa ; an olive brown terminal line ; cilia black at 

 base, grey at tips, except at apex and the angle. Hindwing with the termen 

 almost straight from apex to vein 3, then twice excised before tornus ; a few 

 dark striae ; an indistinct curved brown postmedial line with white points on 

 its inner edge on veins 2, 3, 4 ; an olive-brown terminal line ; cilia black at 

 base, grey at tips. 



S'a&atai.— Kanara, Satara (Davidson). Exp. 26 mill. Type— In B. M. 

 3045c. Epiplema falcata, n. sp. (pi, C, f. 1). 



$. Forewing with the apex strongly produced and falcate ; hindwing 

 with the termen evenly rounded. 



Head, thorax and abdomen dull chocolate brown ; the anal taft whitish. 

 Forewing with the basal third dull chocolate brown ; the rest of wing pale 

 yellowish brown with fuscous striae ; an obscure dark discoidal spot, the 

 costal edge yellow brown ; a curved yellow-brown subterminal line, with the 

 area beyond it chocolate irrorated with white scales. Hindwing chocolate- 

 brown, greyish towards costa, irrorated with dark scales j a yellowish patch 

 on middle of inner margin ; a yellowish postmedial line on inner half ; cilia 

 red-brown, the tips white. 

 Halitat.—GQjlon (Mackwood), Exp. 26 mill. Type- In B. M. 

 30515. Epiplema simplex, Warr. Nov, Zool. VI., p. 322. 

 $. Grey-brown ; head dark-brown with the vertex and antennae white ; 

 wings with dark striae, Forewing with strongly curved medial brown line ; 

 the postmedial line slightly angled at vems 6 and 4 and oblique towards 

 costa and inner margin ; a subterminal lunulate brown mark above middle. 

 Hindwing with very oblique antemedial brown line from costa to vein 2, 

 where it is angled ; the postmedial line brown defined by white on outer side, 

 very oblique from costa to vein 3, then retracted to inner margin ; a black 

 point on termen at the lower tail ; a fine white line at base of cilia. 

 Habitat. — Nilgiris. Exp. 30 mill, 

 3060a, Epiplema holosticta, n, sp. (pi, C, f. 19). 



9, Head, thorax and abdomen yellowish white, thickly irrorated with 

 brown and blackish; first segment of abdomen with blackish band, Forewing 

 white, thickly irrorated and blotched with reddish brown and blackish ; the 

 costa yellowish brown to the postmedial line ; the lines blackish on a yellow- 



