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part with brown and irrorated with fuscous; sub-basal line represented by 

 double black striae from costa and cell ; antemedial line double, oblique, 

 slightly waved, and angled inwards on median nervure; clavifoim slightly 

 defined by black scales ; orbicular and reniform with white annuli defined by 

 black, the former round ; postmedial line indistinctly double, slightly bent- 

 outwards below costa, then minutely waved, incurved below vein 4, some grey 

 points beyond it on costa : subterminal line indistinct, whitish, defined on 

 inner side by a blackish bar from costa and blackish dentate maiks at middle, 

 slightly angled outwards at vein 7 ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia 

 grey with a fuscous line at base. Hindwing grey, uniformly tinged with fus- 

 cous brown ; cilia Avhite : the underside white, slightly irrorated with brown, 

 a small discoidal spot and indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Habitat. — W. Turkistan ; E. Turkistan; Mongolia; Sikhim. Exp. Sft 

 mill. 



16276. Episilia clavata, Hmpsn., A. M. N. H. (7J, XIX, p. 244 (1907). 

 (Plate G-., f . 20). 

 Antennse of male bipectinate with moderate branches; the apical part serrate. 

 £. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark reddish brown mixed with grey ; tarsi 

 with pale rings. Forewinggrey tinged with red-brown, the. medial area red- 

 brown except towards costa and inner margin ; sub-basal line represented by a 

 black striga from costa ; a strong sinuous black streak below base of cell with 

 yellow streak above it to the claviform, which has a yellowish annulus defined 

 by black and intersects the oblique sinuous antemedial line ; orbicular and 

 reniform grey with brownish centres and defined by black, the former oblique 

 elliptical, open above, the latter a narrow lunule very strongly angled on median 

 nervure to below orbicular, some blackish in cell before and between them - 

 postmedial line strongly bent outwards below costa, then dentate, strongly 

 incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line very indistinct, greyish, slightly angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the veins beyond it with slight 

 dark streaks ; a terminal series of slight brown lunules ; cilia with fine brown 

 line near base. Hindwing grey suffused and irrorated with brown, a dark 

 terminal line : the underside with dark discoidal lunule and diffused curved 

 postmedial line. 



Habitat.— Punjab, Kulu. Exp. 30 mill. 



16.34a. Episilia aeenacea, Hmpsn., A. M. N. H. (7), XIX., p. 245 (1907) . 

 (Plate G.,f. 21). 



Antennae of male serrate and fasciculate. 



$. Head and thorax pale brownish ochreous, tarsi fuscous with pale rings - 

 abdomen pale ochreous, dorsally irrorated with fuscous. Forewing pale brown- 

 ish ochreous, slightly irrorated with fuscous; a double waved sub-basal line from 

 costa to submedian fold : antemedial line indistinctly double, oblique, strongly 

 waved, interrupted; orbicular and reniform with slight yellowish annuli in- 

 completely defined by fuscous, the former round, the latter large ; postmedial 

 line double at costa. then indistinct, t outward below costa, tben dentate and 

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