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8. Euplexia viridacea spec nov. 



(?. Heiul ochreoiis, collar greenish, thorax and abdomen reddish ochreous, 

 jiatagiae greenish, legs brownish oohreons with tiiu tibiae darkly spotted, tarsi 

 darkish, palely ringed. Primary pale bronzy green, with a dark snbbasal patch 

 edged with white, an antemedial white line edged Hnely with black ; medial area 

 dark browiush, with an irregnlar wliitc; M-sliaped mark below vein ID, with 

 a greenish spot between the two outer lines of the letter ; below vein 2 a white 

 inverted V-shajied mark ; this dark area is edged with a fine cremdate doable line 

 of black and white ; terraen darkly spotted, preceding which (spots) is a series 

 of spearliead marks finely ontlined with white ; along the costa are three dark 

 dashes with fine white centres, two being before the end of the cell and one 

 beyond the cell. Secondary with tlie basal three-fifths greyish with a dark 

 hinule at the end of the cell, the terminal two-fifths pale bronzy-green. Under- 

 snrface : Primary ochreons grey tiiiged with green, with a dark spot in the cell 

 and a dark postmedial line ; secondary ochreous with a dark spot at the end of 

 the cell and a dark postmedial line. In fresh specimens the dark patches of the 

 primary are covered with a greenish Instre. 



Ex]ianse : 33 — 30 mm. 



Hub. Dinawa, Ekeikei and the Kebea Range. 



Type in my collection. 



9. Euplexia smaragdina spec. nov. 



S. Frons ochreous slightly tinged with green, palpi ochreous, head pale green, 

 collar and thorax bright green, patagia witli two grey stripes, abdomen ochreous. 

 Primary pale emerald green, with a short costal basal blackish diagonal dash with 

 a fine white internal edging; below this a second similar dash invading the cell, 

 a blackish snbbasal patch interrupted by the veins from the costa to well below 

 the cell edged externally with a y -shaped white line, a curved line of green below 

 it, followed by two blackish dashes, each edged internally finely with white; latter 

 half of cell covered with a blackish irregular subijuadrate patch, edged externally 

 with white, in the centre of this patch a fine diagonal ^-shaped mark ; reniform 

 stigma beyond the cell marked out with white, beyond which is a wedge-shaped 

 dark brown jiatch ascending to the costa, where its broad end is, a dark sjiot on the 

 costa in front of the a]iex, confluent with this ; below, nearer the base, between 

 veins 1 and 2, a black dash edged externally with white, a terminal series of black 

 spear-head marks increasing towards the tornus. 



Secondary golden yellow without marks. Undersurface of both wings ochreous 

 yellow. 



Expanse : 35 ram. 



Hab. Kebea Range, March and April. 



Type in my collection. 



111. Euplexia dinawa spec. nov. 



Head and frons ochreous, collar dark olive-greenish, thorax dark brown with 

 dark olive-green patagiae and tufts, abdomen greyish with orange dorsal tnfts, legs 

 darkish grey with reddish tarsi. Primary brown, with a small dark lirown basal 

 patch bisected by a pale <-shaped mark, a dark brown spot below the cell, outer 

 half of cell occupied by a broad dark brown stripe in which is placed a broad 



