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Epicurica Meyrick, 1914 
Epicurica Meyrick, 1914, Exot. Microl., vol. 1, p. 252. Gener. Ins., fasc. 180, 
p. 135, 1922. Fletcher, Mem. Agric. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 80, 1929. Gaede, Lepid. 
Catal., part 92, p. 230, 1939. 
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Key to the Papuan species of Epicurica 
Markings partially crimson nebuligera spec. nov. 
Without crimson markings ^ 
Hind wing infuscated hystata spec. nov. 
Hind wing whitish-ochreous, not infuscated 3 
Preterminal band formed by a faint fulvous suffusion bilineata spec. nov. 
Preterminal band formed by a series of blackish semilunar marks between 
cinnamomea spec. nov. 
Epicurica cinnamomea spec. nov. (fig. 702) 
$ 26 mm. Head light tawny, face paler. Palpus pale tawny, apical 
segment little dilated in the male, irrorated with deeper tawny. Antenna 
whitish-fuscous, ringed with light fuscous, with a bronze gloss, ciliations 2. 
Thorax fight tawny, deeper tawny anteriorly, apex pale tawny. Abdomen 
and legs whitish-ochreous, anterior leg suffused with fight ochreous-tawny. 
Fore wing broad, dilated, costa considerably curved anteriorly, less 
curved posteriorly, apex triangular, rather obtusely pointed, termen 
sinuate above, little oblique. Ochreous-tawny, somewhat suffused with 
deeper tawny, moderately irrorated and marked with dark brown. Stigmata 
distinct, somewhat irregular, discal approximated, first discal beyond 1 / 3 , 
rounded, second discal slightly larger, before 2 / 3 , subrectangular, trans- 
verse, plical elongate, below the first discal; a moderate, elongate, strongly 
inwards-oblique spot of a brown irroration on the base, resting on the 
dorsum beyond the base; a pair of ill-defined moderate transverse fasciae, 
converging on the costa before 1 / 4 , anterior straight, almost direct, inter- 
rupted at 1 / 3 , posterior much curved above, including the first discal, and 
the plical stigmata, interrupted between those; sparse brown irroration 
occupying the middle of the wing, from beyond the first discal stigma to 
before the second, and from the dorsum to below the costa; a faint 
elongate tawny suffusion between the second discal stigma, and the costa, 
with a small brownish dot just below the costa beyond the middle; cloudy 
spots of brown irroration from below, and slightly beyond the second 
discal stigma to the tornus ; indication of similar much fainter spots from 
that stigma towards the costa before the apex; a curved series of inter- 
neural dark brown prostrate- V-shaped marks, with points directed basad, 
before the termen, abruptly angulate anteriorly between veins 6 and 7, 
below them tolerably parallel to the termen, becoming paler below; 
followed by a subterminal band of ill-defined irroration from below 5 / 6 
of the costa to the tornus. Cilia pale ochreous-pinkish, with a row of brow n- 
ish blotches on the basal half along the termen, costal cilia tawny. Hind 
