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wing whitish-yellow, with a golden gloss, tinged ochreous towards the 
apex. Cilia concolorous. 
Tegumen moderate. Uncus rather narrow, pointed, bristled dorsally. 
Gnathos very large, its arms with a dilated base, so as to reach the base 
of the tegumen, rounded anteriorly, constricted beyond the middle, hook 
forming a broad beak, denticulate above before the apex. A long pending 
curved rod attached below the gnathos, and inside its arms. Transtilla 
absent. Valva broad, cucullus narrowed in a blunt point, sacculus ending 
in a curved rising blunt spike. Vinculum slender, rounded. Anellus rounded; 
furca, two separate slender rods with apical bristles. Aedoeagus slender 
curved. Cornuti absent. (Slide no. 1004 D, type.) 
Moss Forest Camp, 2600 — 2800 m, October 9 — November 5, 1938. 
One specimen. 
Epicurica bilineata spec. nov. (fig. 703) 
$ 25 mm. Head yellowish-ochreous. Antenna ochreous mixed above 
with dark brown. Palpus brownish-ochreous, dorsal half of the median 
segment brown. Thorax tawny. Abdomen light fuscous-ochreous. Legs 
tawny-ochreous, anterior leg infuscated. Fore wing elongate-subtrian- 
gular, rather broad, costa curved, more so towards the base, apex trian- 
gularly pointed, somewhat projecting, termen sinuate, moderately 
oblique. Rather light ochreous, brighter towards the margins which are 
suffused with pinkish-lilac, costal edge pale pinkish-ochreous ; base and 
dorsum moderately suffused with tawny, a short dark fuscous mark on 
costa beyond the base; stigmata not distinct, lilac; tw T o parallel, straight 
somewhat inwardly oblique narrow transverse fasciae of lilac suffusion, 
first from just before the middle of the costa to the dorsum before the 
middle, including the first cliscal and the plical stigmata, dilated on the 
costa, somewhat produced along it posteriorly; second broader, ill-defined 
below the middle of the disc, from about 4 / 5 of the costa; second discal 
stigma transversely erect; termen suffused with pinkish-lilac from the 
apex to vein 3. Cilia whitish-pink, lilac opposite the apex, light pink 
along the costa. Hind wing and cilia, pale golclen-yellow. 
Ovipositor pointed. Ostium indefinite. Ductus bursae proximally, an 
oval sack with several semilunar sclerites, below this rather narrow. Bursa 
copulatrix small. Signum, a small stellate sclerite. (Slide no. 1020 D, type.) 
Moss Forest Camp, 2600 — 2800 m, October 9 — November 5, 1938. 
One, rather damaged, specimen. Allied to the preceding species. 
Epicurica nebuligera spec. nov. (fig. 698) 
q 18 mm. Head whitish-yellow, vertex brighter yellow, side-tufts 
suffused with fuscous and crimson. Antenna yellowish, ringed with 
fuscous. Palpus light yellow, dorsal half, a subapical ring of the median 
segment, and two rings of the apical, crimson. Thorax (damaged) pale 
