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margin : hindwing orange-yellow, with a reddisli-brown marginal band, and a blackish 

 dentate discocellular spot. Head and thorax hoary-brown, longitudinally streaked 

 with yellowish-white ; abdomen orange-yellow, with shght black dorsal spots ; palpi 

 yellowish-white, with the second joint at the side, and tip of third joint black ; legs 

 orange-yellow, with black bands ; antenna? black. 

 Expanse, S \^, $ l^V inch. 



.ffiGOCERA BIMACULA (Plate 94, Fig. 2). 



^gocera bimacula, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. i. p. 57 (1854); Boisd. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1874, 

 p. 54 ; Butler, Elust. Types Het. B. M. i. p. 11, pi. 5, fig. 4 (1877). 



Forewing dark purple-brown, very sparsely speckled with yellow scales ; a pale 

 yellow longitudinally expanding streak from the base, an oblique band extending 

 across the cell to near submedian vein, and a similar oblique band beyond the cell ; 

 the basal streak sometimes broken, and the bands somewhat constricted in the middle ; 

 in the female these markings are broadest : hindwing chrome-yellow, with a dark 

 purple-brown, broad, waved, submarginal band, a large spot at upper end of the cell, 

 and a spot beneath it beyond the lower end. Thorax and head dark purple-brown, 

 with a yellow streak down the tegulse, centre of thorax, and side of frontal tuft; 

 palpi yellow, with a lateral blackish band on second joint and on tip of third ; legs 

 yellow, fore and middle legs and tarsi of hind legs with black bands ; abdomen yellow, 

 with some dorsal and lateral black spots. 



Expanse, <S If, ? 1| inch. 



Genus EPISTEME. 



Episteme, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 179 (1818-22). 



EusemiayHaXman, Prodr. Monog. Castnise, p. 26 (1825) ; Duncan, Nat. Libr. Exotic Moths, p. 86 ; 

 Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. i. p. 46; Boisd. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1874, p. 81. 



Forewing long, triangular; exterior margin slightly convex, posterior margin 

 long ; first subcostal emitted at nearly one-half before end of the cell, second from 

 end of the cell, quadrifid ; discocellular deeply concave, oblique ; radial from upper 

 end of the cell; three upper medians from angles at end of the cell, lower at one- 

 fourth before the end ; submedian almost straight : hindwing short, apex convex ; 

 costal vein extending to apex ; two subcostal branches at some distance beyond end 

 of the cell ; discocellular concave, slightly bent in the middle, radial from the angle ; 

 two upper medians from angles at end of the cell, lower at one-fourth before the end ; 

 submedian and internal vein straight. Thorax and head pilose ; abdomen squamose, 

 long ; palpi ascending, second joint reaching to near vertex, first and second joints 

 laxly pilose in front, the hairs very long in male, third joint naked, cylindrical ; legs 

 long, femora slightly pilose beneath; antennae long, slender, thickened towards 

 the tip. 



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