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EPIPLEMID^. 
crossed by a dark brown medial band, which is narrow at the middle, wide at the costa and 
inner margin. Hind wing with the medial band of even width throughout, angled between 
the second and third median nervules ; the costa fringed with long hairs ; the outer margin 
angulated at the first subcostal only. Both wings with a marginal series of lunulate marks. 
Dirades crepuscularis. (Plate CLVII. fig. 13.) 
Expanse ? | inch. 
Female. Head and antennae white ; thorax, abdomen, and wings purplish brown. Fore 
wing with an erect, nearly straight, postmedial ferruginous line. Hind wing with a curved 
ferruginous line from the centre of the costa to inner margin near anal angle. Both wings 
with a slight marginal blackish line and the cilia rather darker than the ground-colour. 
Gathynia ferrugata, Wlk. (Plate CLVII. fig. 7.) 
Dirades ferrugata, WJl\ Cat. xxxv. p. 1651. 
Erosia ferrugata, Hmpsn. PI. CLVII. fig. 7. 
Expanse ^ 1 inch. 
Male. Head and thorax purplish fuscous, the metathorax reddish ; abdomen pale fuscous, 
the first segment dark. Fore wing fuscous brown, with diffused ferruginous patches on disk 
and at apex ; a very indistinct submarginal, curved, dark line. Hind wing dark purplish 
brown ; the inner area suffused with white ; a ferruginous streak from the base to lower angle 
of cell ; ante- and postmedial angled ferruginous lines. Underside of hind wing whitish. 
METOETHOCHEILUS, g. n. 
Male. Antennae thickened as in Dirades, Wlk. Palpi short, slight, and upturned. Fore 
wing highly emarginate below the apex ; the first subcostal anastomosing shortly with the 
costal ; the second given oft' before the end of cell ; the third from the fourth before the 
apex ; the fifth stalked with the upper radial ; lower radial from the middle of discocellulars ; 
third median from lower angle of cell ; second and first medians at intervals before the angle. 
Hind wing with the costa slightly emarginate, the apex rather hooked^ the outer margin 
almost straight ; the two subcostals stalked ; the radial from middle of discocellulars ; second 
and third medians from lower angle of cell; the first median from before the angle. 
Type M. [Azatat) emarginatus, Hmpsn., 111. Typ. Heteroc. viii. p. 113, pi. 151. fig. 14. 
Decetia subobscurata, Wlk. (Plate CLXVIII. figs. 1, 7.) 
Gynopteryx ? subobscurata, WlJc. Cat. xxvi. p. l-i95. 
Expanse 2 inches. 
Male. Red-brown; an oblique ferruginous line from the apex of fore wing to inner 
margin of hind w ing before the middle. Fore wing with an obscure series of black submarginal 
