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EPIPLEMA. By M. Gaede. 
with lustrous greyish-brown scales. Exterior hire sharply angled on vein 4, bordered with light, in front of 
it a blackish shadow from the centre of the wing to the anal margin. A broad dark brown streak on the cross- 
vein, followed by the interior line to the anal margin. A black submarginal line of lunae, in front of it above 
vein 4 lighter. 22 mm. Sierra Leone. 
illineata. E. illineata Warr. Forewing white. Interior line only indicated by some fine dots. Exterior line from 
% of the costal margin strongly excurved, in the centre with a few brown and black dots. A deep black spot 
at the anal angle, fringe white. Hindwing with an interrupted basal and postmedian line, submarginal line 
of pale brown dots, a fine black line to the anal angle. 24 mm. Natal. 
barbara. E. barbara Warr. (67 h). Forewing sandy ochreous with brown dots. First line faded, the second brown, 
from the costal margin close behind the centre bent outward to vein 4, where it is angular, obliquely inwards 
to a vertical brown spot at 2 / 3 of the inner margin. A narrow curved brown subterminal mark behind the cell 
and a brown cloud at the anal angle. Hindwing with an oblique brown streak on the cross-vein. A double pale 
brown, postmedian line which is angular before the lower dent, then undulated to the anal angle. The interior 
branch with a dark spot at the costal margin, a brown shadow in the arch below the median vein. A dark brown 
line between the dents, a brown spot above the lower dent. 20 mm. East Africa. 
ansorgei. E. ansorgei Warr. (67 h). Forewing dull chalky white with a pale brownish-grey marking. The first 
line at of the costal margin, curved, indistinct. The second from 2 / 3 obliquely distad, forming a feeble angle 
at veins 6 and 4, then vertical to % of the inner margin. The line is greyish-brown, double, in the submedian 
fold marked with black. Submarginal brown spots on the centre and at the anal angle. Hindwing with an 
indistinct interior and double exterior fine brown line, obtusely angled on vein 4, then undulating to the anal 
angle, where it is inside bordered with dark. Margin with a metallic streak from the anal angle almost to the 
apex. A submarginal shadow and spot on the cross-vein of a variable distinctness. 20—22 mm. Togo, Spanish 
Guinea, Uganda. 
rotunda. E. rotunda Warr. (67 h). Forewing white, dotted brown. Two black dots at %. and y 2 of the costal 
margin. Interior line absent. Exterior line double, brown, curved, behind the cell and at the inner margin 
expanded as a spot. Brown submarginal spots in the centre and at the anal angle. Hindwing with a double 
curved exterior line being obtusely angled at vein 4, before and behind it in the submedian fold greyish-brown. 
Below vein 5 a glossy spot. 18 mm. Sierra Leone, Spanish Guinea. 
iumigera. E. fumigera Warr. (67 g). Forewing white. Interior line curved, interrupted, from y 3 of the costal 
margin to % of the inner margin. Exterior line from 2 / 3 of the costal margin obliquely to vein, 6, indistinct, 
then vertical to vein 3, indicated bv black scales, then to 2 / 3 of the inner margin nut-brown. Behind it a smoky 
brown shadow and a vertical greyish-black submarginal band proceeding from a spot at the anal angle, inter¬ 
rupted above vein 6. Behind the cell dark marginal scales and black submarginal spots. Hindwing v r hite with 
a double, sharply angled exterior line, the interior branch darker, the exterior branch greyish-brown, very 
indistinct. At the costal margin and apex brown scales. A dark brown line between the dents. 24 mm. Came¬ 
roon, Natal. 
subdistinc- E. subdistincta Warr. Forewing white, basal area feebly brownish with indistinct lines. Exterior line 
la • pale brown, double, from behind y 2 of the costal margin to 2 / 3 of the inner margin, excurved above the cell 
and slightly incurved behind the cell. A yellowish submarginal shadow not quite to the costal margin. Hindwing 
with a brown cellular spot and a double brown exterior line, obtusely angular on vein 4. The interior branch 
as on forewing with a black spot above vein 2. Marginal line of a light lustre, at the anal angle expanded into 
a spot. 
semipida. E. semipicta Warr. (67 h). Forewing pale grey, dusted with brownish. Interior line formed of blackish 
dots. Exterior line fine and distinct, from 2 / 3 of the costal margin obliquely outwards to vein 6, then vertical, 
beginning from vein 4 it is slightly incurved to the inner margin near the anal angle. A brown luniform spot 
near the subapical indenture. Fringe light from the apex to the centre, then dark. Hindwing lilac brown with 
a dark sharply angled interior line. The exterior line angular at vein 4, dark brown, bordered with light, in 
front of it near the inner margin broad brown. Discal spot long-curved. A rust-coloured spot in the angle of 
the interior line. 15 mm. East Africa, Spanish Guinea. 
asinina. E. asinina Warr. Forewing dingy grey, densely dusted with a darker colour. Lines dark brown. The 
first line at x / 3 of the costal margin, strongly excurved on the median vein. The second from 3 / 5 of the costal 
margin convex to vein 4, then concave to % of the inner margin. Before it a faded dark shadow which forms 
a black spot at the inner margin. Submarginal dark brown spots, inside black from the apex to the centre. 
Hindwing with lines as on forewing, but the exterior line more sharply angled at vein 4; behind it a light line 
bordered with dark, before it a dark shadow. Marginal shadow brown, between the dents edged with black, 
therein with 3 short white lines. 20 mm. Natal. 
inclegans. E. inelegans Warr. (67 g). Forewing dull lilac grey with fine dark dots, without the two normal lines. 
Some black scales at the anal angle, a spot at the inner margin and one more above it. Hindwing with an 
irregular rust-brown line from a dark spot at 2 / 3 of the costal margin to the anal angle with black dots at the 
veins. Ail undulating brown line between the dents. 24—26 mm. Niger District, Cameroon. 
