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Fore wing with grey striz on costa and outer area; outwardly- 
oblique antemedial and medial brown lines. Hind wing with an 
outwardly-oblique medial brown 
line angled at veins 3 and 2, then 
recurved to inner margin; outer 
area with a yellowish tinge; two 
marginal brown lines from apex 
to the tail at vein 4, where there 
is a black spot just inside the 
margin. 
Fig. 70. Hab. Sikhim; Khasis; Poona; 
Orudiza protheclaria, 2. Canara; Travancore; Burma ; 
Java. xp. 36 millim. 
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Genus EPIPLEMA. 
Epiplema, Herr.-Schdaffer, Samml. aussereur. Schmett. p. 26 (1850).} | 
Type, Z. acutangularia, H.-S., from Brazil. 
Range. Neotropical, Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australian 
regions, and the Palearctic in 8. Russia, Amur, and Japan. 
Palpi porrect, projecting beyond the frons. Fore wing with 
vein 5 from the upper angle of cell; 6 and 7 stalked; 8 and 9 
stalked; 10 usually from cell, rarely stalked with 8 and 9. Hind 
wing with veins 3 and 4 from angle of cell; 5 from middle of 
discocellulars ; 6 and 7 from upper angle. Wings held more or 
less apart in repose. 
Srot. I. Male with the antennz thickened and flattened. 
A. Wings with outer margin indented below the apex and slightly 
excised from thence to ven 4. 
' 3041. Epiplema columbaris, But. Ill. Het. vii, p. 82, pl. 183, fig. 8. 
$. Dull hair-brown. Fore wing with indistinct darker striae, 
some of which form indistinct ante- and postinedial nearly erect 
lines; cilia ochreous. Hind wing similar; the indistinct lines 
subbasal and antemedial. 
Hab. Dharmsala; Simla. Zap. 30 millim. 
B. Fore wing with the outer margin deeply excised from veins 7 to 4. 
Hind wing with two indentures between the anal angle and vein 8. 
3042. Epiplema edentata, n. sp. 
$. Head and collar white; thorax fuscous. Fore wing white ; 
the whole basal area except the costa clouded and speckled with 
fuscous ; a double oblique fuscous line from below the apex to 
inner margin, the area beyond it clouded and striated with fuscous ; 
some dark specks on the costa towards apex and rufous marks on 
