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rufous patches on its inner edge; an orange patch reticulated 
with brown on the margin between veins 4 and 7. 
Hab. Sikhim; Khasis. Hap. 24 millim. 
Sect. Il. Male with antenne serrated. Fore wing with outer 
margin slightly angled at vein 7. Hind wing with two tails. 
/ 3063. Epiplema irrorata, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 403, pl. 186, fig. 10; 
C. & 8. no. 3059. / 
3d. Grey, thickly irrorated with pale and dark brown scales. 
Fore wing with indistinct antemedial, postmedial, and submarginal 
waved brown lines outwardly edged with ochreous; a maculate 
brown line just before the margin. Hind wing similar; a brown 
white-edged lunule at each tail. 
Hab. Khasis; Nilgiris; Ceylon. Hp. 16 millim. 
Genus DIRADES. 
Dirades, Wik. Cat. xxxv, p. 1650 (1866). 
Type, D. theclata, Guen. 
Range. W. Indies; Africa; China; throughout India, Ceylon, 
and Burma to Australia. 
Palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head; antenne thickened 
and flattened in male. Fore wing broad ; the outer margin evenly 
curved; vein 5 from below the upper angle of cell; 6 and 7 
stalked, 8 and 9 stalked ; 10 from cell. Hind wing usually with the 
outer margin produced to points at veins 4 and 7, slightly developed 
in male; vein 5 from the middle of discocellulars ; 6 and 7 from 
angle of cell or shortly stalked. Male with a fold on inner area 
containing a tuft of long hair, veins 16 and 2 being distorted. 
Wings held more or less apart in repose. 
Secor. I. Hind wing of male without tufts of hair on the costa. 
A. Hind wing of male with a slight tail at ven 4 only ; veins 2, 5, 
6, 7, the discocellulars, and wpper margin of cell absent. 
3064. Dirades unicauda, Hmpsn. Ill. Het. viii, p. 103, pl. 150, fig. 21. 
3. Violaceous grey-brown. Wings irrorated with brown. 
Fore wing with the costal area suffused with fuscous ; a large oval 
brown-outlined spot on inner margin; a series of marginal fuscous 
lunules. Hind wing with an angled indistinct antemedial rufous 
line; a curved postmedial, more prominent line and marginal 
lunulate line. 
Hab: Sikhim; Nilgiris. Hap. 22 millim. 
B. Hind wing of male with slight tals at veins 4 and 7, 
and the venation normal. 
3065. Dirades theclata, Guen. Phai. ii, p. 36. 
Dirades adjutaria, Wik. Cat. xxiii, p. 849; C. § S. no. 8049. 
Dirades binotata, Wik. Cat. xxxv, p. 1650; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, 
p: 399, pl. 186, fig. 7; C. g S. no. 3051. 
Erosia verticaria, Feld. Revs. Nov. pl. 128, fig. 7. 
