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faintly defined by paler ; reuit'orm white formiug part of outer area, the median 

 area formiug a black hook beyond it and ending in a brown point above inner margin; 

 onter line scarcely defined by two i)aral]el series of black atoms ; terminal area 

 above middle pnrple blackish, inwardly edged with black, the edge extending to 

 snbmedian fold, beyond which the termen is white ; fringe purplish with a whitish 

 basal line swollen into spots at the veins. 



Hindwing : dark brownish fuscous, paler basewards, witii a white terminal 

 streak from vein 1 to 3 separated by a black streak from white spots on veins 2 

 and 3 ; fringe black at apex, below vein (i witii the tips white. 



Underside blackish irrorated with bluish white scales, and deep black along 

 termen ; base and inner margin white ; cnll-spots wliite, that in forewing 

 conspicuous. 



Head, thorax, pectus, and legs black ; abdomen blackish, whitish at base, 

 the tufts black ; metathoracic tuft, tips of palpi, and basal segment of antennae 

 white. 



Expanse of wings : 30 mm. 



1 ? Bonthain, Celebes. 



37. Euplexia nigroplumbea spec. nov. 



Forewinq : bone-colour, sutt'used to a large extent with purple black ; the 

 median area below middle, the cell on each side of orbicular stigma, and a sub- 

 marginal band deep velvety black brown, the paler spaces below middle flushed 

 with brownish flesh-colour ; median area projecting beaklike inwards in submedian 

 interval, the pale band before it excurved at median and strongly below vein 1, its 

 centre j)nr|)lisli ; outer edge of median area oblicpie and straight from vein 8 to 4, 

 then slightly inbent and again oblique to below vein 1, shortly bent outwards again 

 along inner margin ; followed by an obli([ue pale space, brown-tinged below middle 

 with two purplisli ])arallel transverse streaks above and a broad ditfuse purple shade 

 below ; a velvety black shade from below costa before apex to anal angle, above 

 which it is widened and diffuse and followed by a brown patch ; fringe purplish, 

 with pale dots at the vein ends ; upper stigmata like the costal sti'eak purplish 

 black ; the orbicular finely, the reniform more strongly outlined with ochreous, the 

 latter with an ochreous streak across its middle ; the orbicular reaching below 

 median vein, tiieir converse edges contiguous at lower end. 



Hindwing : dull ochreous whitish, becoming dark smoky fuscous along termen ; 

 the veins dark terminally, vein '^ black and thick, marked by a subterminal pale 

 spot and crossed by a terminal pale streak; the inner margin narrowly fuscous ; the 

 fringe purple black with the tips wliite. 



Underside of forewing leaden fuscous sprinkled with blue-grey scales towards 

 termen, the inner margin whitisli ; costa before apex with four white spots ; fringe 

 deep brown with yellow dots at the vein ends and a bluish middle line ; hind- 

 wing whitish, the costal and terminal areas fuscous, thickly sprinkled with bluish 

 scales. 



Head, thorax, pectus, and legs purple black ; palpi internally and in front pale ; 

 metathoracic tuft ti[iped with white, base of dorsum and lateral hairs pale ; anal 

 segments fuscous ; the dorsal tufts black. 



Expanse of wings : 34 mm. 



1 (J from Kina Balu, N. Borneo. 

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