46 NYCTEMERID#.—LIPARID&. 
with lateral series of black spots; terminal segments yellowish ; anus yellow. Expanse of 
wings 2 inches 2 lines. 
Silhet and Hong-Kong. 
PITASILA, Moore. 
Pitasila varians. (Plate LXX XVIII. fig. 4.) 
Nyctemera varians, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. ii. p. 400. n. 23 (1854). 
Wings above snow-white, semitransparent ; primaries with two blackish basal spots ; two 
parallel, irregular, arched, brown bands across the basal half, connected with one another and 
with an abbreviated band across the end of the cell by a longitudinal median streak of the 
same colour ; two subconfluent brown spots across the interno-median area ; an angular streak 
across the base of second median interspace; external border very broadly and irregularly 
brown, its inner margin unevenly sinuated; a white spot at apex, and several large ones 
between the third median branch and the external angle: secondaries with a large costal 
patch, and a second below the cell connected by a slender line, two small irregular spots above 
the end of the cell, a large subapical costal patch, and three on external area brown: body 
white, slightly yellowish at the extremities; thorax spotted with black; abdomen with dorsal 
and lateral series of black spots. Wings below as above ; body below yellow, spotted as above 
with black. Expanse of wings 2 inches 3 lines. 
North India and Moulmein. 
LIPARIDA. 
EPICOPEIA, Westw. 
Epicopeia excisa. (Plate LX XXVIII. fig. 5.) 
6. Similar to EL. polydora, but the secondaries more elongated, less deeply sinuated 
between the apex and the caudal extremity, and much more deeply sinuated between the 
median branches, the white band much more angulated and placed further from the base, the 
submarginal rose-bordered spots increasing in size from the anal angle to the caudal extremity, 
instead of in the reverse direction. Primaries below with a large costal red spot above the 
end of the cell; white band of secondaries below commencing with a red spot upon the costa. 
Expanse of wings 4 inches 3 lines. 
?. Considerably larger than the male, the primaries broader, the submarginal spots of 
secondaries pale yellowish flesh-coloured instead of rose-red. Expanse of wings 5 inches 
6 lines. 
Chukrata, N.E. Punjab (Lidderdale). 
