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numerous waved lines. Fore wing with the costa to beyond 
middle grey, extending on medial area down to vein 5, and 
embracing the discocellular tuft of black scales; the inner medial 
area slightly suffused with grey; a submarginal series of white 
specks. Hind wing with the inner area suffused with grey. 
The outer area of fore wing may be darker, and the whole hind 
wing fuscous grey. In the form albispwmata the area beyond the 
cell of fore wing is somewhat powdered with grey, and the sub- 
inarginal white specks are slight. 
Hab. Dharmsala; Khasis. Exp. 20-22 millim. 
3787. Eupithecia asema, Hmpsn. Ill. Het. viii, p. 117, pl. 152, fig. 23. 
White, slightly irrorated and suffused with pale ochreous 
brown; wings with traces of numerous oblique minutely waved 
ochreous lines, and a somewhat more prominent crenulate white 
submarginal line. 
Hab, Nilgiri plateau. xp. 22 milli. 
3788) Eupithecia hemileuca, n. sp. 
S. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey and dark brown; the 
thorax and 1st segment of abdomen pure white. Fore wing pure 
white, with four large blackish patches on the costa; indistinct 
irregular subbasal and medial lines ; a black speck at end of cell ; 
a postmedial line very much excurved below costa, then bent 
inwards along vein 5 to the discocellulars, the area beyond it red- 
brown, except at outer angle, with two indistinct pale waved lines 
on it. Hind wing white, with indistinct ante-~ and postmedial 
lines excurved below costa, the postmedial line with black streaks 
on it from cell to inner margin; a minute cell-speck; a black 
patch at anal angle; a fine marginal black line. 
Hab; Dalhousie (Harford). Eup. 24 millim. Type in B. M. 
3789. Eupithecia costipicta, Warr. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 383, pl. 30, fig. 21. 
@. Brownish grey; wings with numerous indistinct obliquely 
sinuous lines. ore wing with five brown patches on the costa; a 
black spot at end of cell, the double medial line being produced ta a 
very acute angle round it; the outer area suffused with brown, 
except just below apex and at middle ; hind wing with cell-speck ; 
both wings with fine marginal black line. 
Hab. Sikhim. vp. 30 millim. 
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3790. Eupithecia rufipicta, n. sp., P. Z. S. 1893, pl. 30, fig. 22. 
3. Dull white; the head dark red-brown; wings with traces 
of numerous waved lines. Fore wing with dark red-brown patches 
on the costa, from which the waved lines arise, the patches being 
almost conjoined on basal half; the double antemedial line angled 
on median nervure; a prominent black cell-spot: large rufous 
patches on outer margin below apex and at outer angle. Hind 
wing with a subbasal brown patch; a prominent black cell-spot ; 
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