Epipsestis ornata is a moth in the Drepanidae family. It was described by Leech in 1889. It is found in Japan, the Korean Peninsula, the Russian Far East and China (Heilongjiang, Jilin, Shaanxi). The wingspan is about 38 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is greyish brown, but browner along the base and costa. There is a series of dark wavy lines forming a broad band, the interior border of which is curved and sharply serrated, and the outer elbowed below the subcostal nervure, and indented above the inner margin. The central fascia is greyish white towards the inner margin, bordered externally by a blackish double line deeply angulated towards the outer margin, followed by a dark serrated line, and a fainter submarginal dentated line curving from the apex to the outer margin. There is