86 pybaxim:. 



The markings of the fore wing vary considerably in the extent 

 and brightness of the pink. 



Sab. Madagascar ; China ; throughout India, Ceylon, and 

 Burma ; Sumatra ; Australia. Exp. 20 millim. 



4376. Epicrocis lateritialis, Wlh. Cat. xxvii, p. 74 ; Rag. Mon. Phyc. 



p. 236, pi. xxii, fig. 16 ; C. $ S. no. 4571. 

 Nephopteryx concolorella, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1721. 

 Nephopteryx laxalis, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 877; C. # S. 



no. 4581. 



Head and thorax brownish pink ; abdomen ochreous. Fore 

 wing pale brown, suffused with pink and irrorated with fuscous 

 except on inner area ; the costa whitish ; very obscure dark 

 diffused oblique antemedial and erect medial bands. Hind wing 

 pale fuscous ; the cilia whitish. 



Sab. The plains of India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Andamans. 

 Exp. 20 millim. 



B. (Candiope). Antennce of male ciliated and not thickened. 



4377. Epicrocis joannisella, Rag. Nouv. Gen. p. 14; Mon. Phyc. 



p. 223, pi. x, fig. 12 ; C. $ S. no. 4569. 



Head whitish : thorax pale red-brown, suffused with grey and 

 irrorated with fuscous ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing with 

 the basal area pale red-bi'own, traversed by an oblique band of 

 grey and fuscous scales, this area bordered by an oblique white- 

 edged dark line angled inwards on vein 1 ; the outer area grey 

 irrorated with fuscous ; a black and white speck at lower angle of 

 cell, with some brown suffusion below it ; a red-brown marginal 

 band, inwardly edged by a white line bent inwards to costa and 

 with some black points on it ; a marginal series of black specks ; 

 the cilia grey and fuscous. Hind wing semihyaline, with a slight 

 brown tinge. 



Sab. Aden; S. India; Ceylon. Exp. 16 millim. 



4378. Epicrocis uberalis, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 523, pi. 48, fig. 10 



C. £ S. no. 4470. 



Head and thorax white irrorated with brown ; abdomen white, 

 lore wing brown, thickly irrorated with white ; a very obliquely 

 curved antemedial white line ; the median nervure streaked with 

 white, expanding and embracing a dark spot at lower angle of 

 cell ; the veins beyond upper angle streaked with white ; an 

 oblique submarginal white line from below apex ; a white marginal 

 band, with a series of dark specks on the margin. Hind wing 

 white, with marginal brown line and line through the cilia. 



Sab. St. Vincent ; Karachi. Exp. 20 millim. 



