46 NYCTEMEEID^.— LIPAKQLE. 



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 LXXXVIII. fig. 4.) 

 Nyctemera varians, Walker, Cat. Lep. Set. 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. 



LIPARID^. 



EPICOPEIA, Westw. 

 Epicopeia excisa. (Plate LXXXVIII. fig. 5.) 



cj . Similar to E. 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) . 



