EUMELIA.— EPHTRA. Ill 
PALYAD.E. 
Enmelia olivacea. (Plate CLI. fig. 17.) 
Expanse If incli. 
Male. Yellowish olive-brown, uniformly marked with purple-brown strigse ; cilia 
chocolate-brown. Fore wing with a slightly curved and somewhat indistinct purple-brown 
transverse band one fourth from base ; both wings crossed by a similar but distinct medial 
band. Underside like the upperside, but more thickly marked with striga;; a maculate 
purple-brown band from costa one fifth from apex to outer angle, continued as a submarginal 
maculate band on hind wing. 
EPHYRID^. 
Ephyra rubra. (Plate CLI. fig. 8.) 
Expanse 1 inch. 
Female. Pinkish red, thickly marked with brown strigse and patches, so close together on 
costal area of both wings as to make them appear quite brown ; a small black spot at eiul of 
cell of each wing ; cilia yellow. Underside pinkish white, with numerous faint brown strite. 
Near E. abhadraca, but much redder and without the pale spots of that species. 
Ephyra maculifascia. (Plate CLI. fig. 9.) 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
Male with bipectinated, female with simple, antennse. Bright ochreous yellow, irrorated 
with blackish scales, which are thickest along costa of fore wing. Fore wing with an ante- 
medial blackish band, obsolescent except for a spot below tbe costa and another on submedian 
nervure. Both wings with a conspicuous black spot with paler centre at end of cell ; a 
maculate postmedial black band, highly concave to first median nervule, then straight to 
inner margin. Underside as above, but thickly marked with strigg ; the markings less 
distinct ; the antemedial band of fore wing quite obsolete. 
Nearest to E. invexata. 
