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ochreous-yellow mixed with pinkish, anterior third brownish, with a 
large deep ochreous spot on each shoulder. Abdomen pale ochreous, 
posterior half with bands of fine brassy setae, anal tuft pale pink, venter 
pale ochreous, tinged pink. Legs light crimson, lower edge and arti- 
culations pale ochreous, tarsi ochreous (posterior legs missing), fore wing 
subovate, costa curved, apex obtusely pointed, termen moderately 
sinuate, little oblique. Light yellow, becoming bright yellow towards the 
base of the costa; costal edge suffused with pale pink; markings dark 
fuscous, narrowly edged with bright crimson suffusion: a fascia from the 
dorsum beyond the middle, furcate in its middle, arms to the base and 
to 1 / 4 of the costa, respectively, posterior arm with a rounded dilatation 
below the costa; furcation encloses a semioval costal patch of the bright 
yellow ground colour, slightly mixed in the middle with crimson; a small 
round spot on the base of the dorsum ; a broad, erect-triangular patch from 
3 / 5 of the costa to the dorsum beyond the middle, its base occupying 
somewhat less than one third of the dorsum, its anterior edge moderately 
convex, with two angulate projections, at 1 / 3 , and in the fold, almost 
connected with the subbasal fascia; posterior edge of the patch with a 
moderate subcostal projection, below this excavated at J / 3 and 2 / 3 , 
respectively; a transverse blotch of crimson suffusion beyond the lower 
concavity of the above mentioned patch ; a transverse fascia from beyond 
s / 6 of the costa to the tornus, broadly dilated, and with a rounded pro- 
jection anteriorly in the upper half of the disc, its posterior edge concave 
opposite this; this fascia is gradually attenuated along the lower half; a 
subterminal row of suffused crimson elongate spots between the veins, 
becoming smaller towards the tornus, not reaching it; a narrow crimson 
marginal line from the apex, thickened around apex, not reaching the 
tornus, along the lower half of the tornus dissolved in small dots on the 
terminations of the veins, ( ilia pale yellow, suffused with crimson except 
towards the tips, in tornus with a grey suffused patch. Hind wing pale 
pink, becoming pale ochreous towards the base, cilia pale ochreous, with 
a pale pink basal half. 
Genitalia very similar to those of E. cinnamomea. Uncus obtuse. Gnathos 
with narrower hook which is stronger dentate above before the apex. 
The rod below the gnathos, narrower. Valva with a more concave costa, 
the spike of the sacculus acute. Vinculum broader. Arms of the furca with 
more dilated bases. Aedoeagus shorter. (Slide no. 1005 D, type.) 
Araucaria Camp, 800 m, March 18, 1939. One specimen. 
Epicurica hystata spec. nov. (fig. 712) 
VOTCLTOQ = latest 
g 21 mm. Head, thorax, pale ochreous, shoulder infuscated. Antenna 
dark fuscous, scape pale ochreous at its apex. Palpus pale ochreous, base 
of the median segment and the basal segment suffused with dark fuscous. 
