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end half length of the lower ; median three-branched, lower at one-half and middle 

 at one-fourth before end of the cell ; a submedian and a slender internal vein. Thorax 

 robust, pilose, abdomen attenuated and tufted at tip in male, stout in female ; palpi 

 porrect, thick, pilose ; antenna broadly bipectinated in male, minutely bipectinated 

 in female ; legs densely pilose. 



Type, E. Fabia (Cramer, pi. 250, f. b). 



EUPTEROTE OCHRIPICTA (Plate 136, Fig. 1, la, $ ?, 15, larva). 

 Eupterote ochripicta, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 410. 



Male and female. TJpperside deep ochreous-yellow : forewing with four purple- 

 brown transverse subbasal and three discal narrow sinuous bands, an intervening 

 medial broader maculated band, a straight submarginal speckled band which is 

 widest and with a narrow outer line in female, and an exterior zigzag band, the 

 interspace between the two latter, in the male, maculated and darker blotched at 

 anterior and near posterior end : hindwing with four discal sinuous bands and a 

 straight submarginal and zigzag outer band, with maculated interspace in male and a 

 narrow line in female. Markings in female strongest. 



Expanse 6 inches. 



Larva dark purplish-brown; with dorsal tufts of long and short dark brown 

 hairs, also a lateral and sublateral row of tufts of short hairs ; on each segment is a 

 longitudinal series of white dots ; a red subdorsal spot on fifth to eleventh segments ; 

 legs red. Cocoon fusiform, pale purplish-brown, interspersed with hairs. Pupa 

 purplish-red. 



"Feeds on Acanthads." (Thwaites.) 



EUPTEROTE MOLLIFERA (Plate 135, Fig. 3, 3a, i 5, 35, larva). 



Dreata mollifera, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxii. p. 376 (1865), $ . 



Tagora antherwata, Walker, id. p. 512, $. 



Homochroa ornata, Felder, Novara Raise, Lep. iv. pi. 94, fig. 3 (1868-74), $. 



Male. Bright yellowish-ochreous, the basal area and posterior border suffused 

 with dull purphsh-ochreous : forewing with a transverse subbasal and three or four 

 discal dull reddish-brown denticulated lines, followed by an oblique outer discal 

 almost straight duplex line, beyond which is a submarginal row of dark-bordered 

 white-centred dentate spots ; a purplish-grey streak below the apex : hindwing with 

 similar transverse subbasal and discal denticulated lines, but less distinct and very 

 slender outer discal, and submarginal dentate line, the latter not spotted. Female. 

 With similar but somewhat more distinctly defined transverse markings, the outer 

 duplex line prominent, the inner line being broad. 



Expanse 2f to 3| inches. 



