AE^OPTERON. — EPIPLEMA. 
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ArsBopteron pictale. (Plate CLXVIII. fig. 19.) 
Expanse | inch. 
Male. Fore wing greyish white ; some dark strigae on the costa and white specks towards 
the apex ; two orange spots above the middle and end of cell ; a dark streak below the cell 
near the base ; a black spot in the end of the cell, with a brown mark below it towards the 
inner margin ; a large black patch on the outer margin below the apex; a series of black 
marginal points. Hind wing grey ; the disk suffused with ferruginous ; a black streak 
across the end of the cell; a black apical patch and series of black marginal points. Under- 
side fuscous. 
EPIPLEMIDiE. 
Epiplema tenebrosa. (Plate CLVII. fig, 3.) 
Erosia * tenebrosa, Hmpsn. PI. CLVII. fig. 3. 
Expanse | inch. 
Female. Dark purple-grey, with numerous black strigae. Fore wing with a dark medial 
band from the costa one-thii'd from base, bent outward to the lower end of the cell, then 
inwards to the centre of the inner margin ; similar irregular postmedial and antemarginal 
bands. Hind wing with an irregular subbasal band strongly denticulate at the centre ; an 
outwardly-curved band in continuation of the first band of the fore wing, irregular towards the 
anal angle; an irregular marginal band toothed at the subapical projection and with a small 
black-centred white ocellus at the projection of the first median nervule. Underside uniform 
fuscous. Shaft of antennae whitish in front. 
Allied to E. prunaria, Moore. 
Epiplema pulverea. (Plate CLVII. fig. 4.) 
Dirades pulvereus, Hmpsn. PL CLVII. tig. 4. 
Expanse $ | inch. 
Male. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white ; antennae ochreous ; frons and palpi 
blackish. W^ings pale ochreous, thickly irrorated with brown scales and strigae, and crossed 
by blackish ante- and postmedial lines angled outwards at the middle. Fore wing with a 
submarginal series of black specks. Hind wing with four similar specks between the first 
subcostal and second median nervules ; the first subcostal and second median nervules produced 
into short tails ; no fold or tuft of hair on inner margin. Abdomen with a pair of lateral 
anal tufts of hair. 
Epiplema lanigera. (Plate CLVII. fig. 13.) 
Erosia lanigera, Hmpsn. PI. CLVII. fig. 13. 
Expanse ? | inch. 
Female. Pale purplish grey, the wings irrorated with dark brown scales. Fore wing 
* Erosia, Guen., is a Oeometrid, and these species should be placed in Epiplema, H.-S. 
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