THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 1243 



3045cZ. Epiplema fttlvihamata, n. sp. (pi. G., f. 14). 



Forewing with the termen very slightly angled at vein 6, hindwing with 

 the costa excised beyond middle and produced to points at veins 6 and 4. 



Head and thorax red-brown tinged with purplish grey ; palpi above and 

 frons black ; pectus and legs whitish, the forelegs fuscous above ; 

 abdomen grey tinged with brown, the medial segments with blackish 

 dorsal marks. Forewing greyish suffused with purple-brown and striated 

 with blackish ; traces of an interrupted waved antemedial line bent 

 inward to costa ; postmedial line double tinged with fulvous and oblique 

 from costa to vein 5, then indistinct, pale, and incurved from vein 4 to 

 submedian fold, then defined by black on inner side and slightly excurved ; 

 a terminal black point below apex, then a dark band with diffused black 

 and fulvous on its inner edge, angled outwards at vein 6 and ending on 

 termen at vein 2. Hindwing with the costal half purplish, the inner half 

 purplish grey-brown striated with black ; a fulvous streak in lower part of 

 cell hooked on discocellulars and with some black beyond its angle ; post- 

 medial line ochreous, defined on inner side by brown from costa to discal 

 fold and below vein 4 by black and fulvous, oblique and slightly sinuous from 

 costa to vein 4 where it is acutely angled outwards, then nearly straight ; 

 a whitish line from termen at vein 7 to termen at vein 2, defined by black 

 on outer side and produced to termen as short white streaks at discal fold 

 and veins 4'3 ; the underside brownish white slightly striated with black. 



Habitat— Ceylon, Kandy, Peradeniya (Green) ; Pulo Laut (Doherty). 

 Exp. 22 mill. Type in B. M. 



GEOMETRID^. 



BOARMIAN^. 



3148a. Sykegia conflagkata, n. sp. 



$ . Head, thorax and abdomen fiery red mixed with yellow ; palpi 

 brownish ; frons yellow below and with red and brown bars above ; 

 antennse brown, the shaft above and a line between their bases pure white ; 

 pectus and legs ochreous and brownish, the forelegs brown ; ventral 

 surface of abdomen whitish. Forewing yellow and fiery red almost 

 entirely suffused with fuscous brown, leaving some of the ground colour at 

 base, as irroration on medial costal area, as ante and postmedial patches on 

 inner margin, as a semicircular patch on termen from apex to vein 4, and 

 lunulate spats towards tornus ; an interrupted red and yellow antemedial 

 line, excurved below costa ; a postmedial white spot in submedian fold at 

 the apex of the patch on inner margin ; some brown striae on termen ; cilia 

 yellow intersected with brown towards apex and at middle. Hindwing 

 yellow suffused with fiery red ; some brown at base ; a dark discoidal point 



