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five inner lines oblique, the middle and discal lines much curved and irregular ; the 

 lines bordered by brownisli-oclireous from their costal end ; a pale-bordered sinuous 

 submarginal line, and a marginal white-pointed black lunular line ; a small orbicular 

 and reniform spot of black raised scales, the latter enclosed by a slender black oblique 

 outer ring : hindwing and abdomen dusky cinereous-brown, the latter with two dorsal 

 oval black rings on each segment ; anal tuft cinereous ; cilia edged with pale 

 cinereous-brown. Thorax and head dusky greyish-brown, thorax white beneath ; 

 palpi blackish above, white beneath ; legs brown above, with blackish bands, white 

 beneath. 



Female : forewing pale brownish-ochreous, the markings as in male : hindwing 

 and body paler. 



Expanse, S 1^, 9 1^ inch. 



Variety (Plate 157, fig. 12). Female : forewing pale brownish-ochreous, the 

 transverse lines rather indistinct ; an angular blackish fascia extending from the 

 costa near the base to exterior margin below the apex. 



PLOTHEIA GUTTULOSANA (Plate 158, Fig. 1,(J). 

 Gadirtha guttulosana, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 897 (1865), (^. 

 Othora onusta, Walker, id. p. 905, (J . 

 Othora signata. Walker, id. p. 906, (^. 



Male and female : forewing olivaceous brownish-ochreous, sparsely speckled with 

 minute black scales; crossed by three pale-bordered black basal broad diffused 

 sinuous lines, two slender antemedial denticulated lines, two less distinct recurved 

 medial lines, followed by a submarginal broad sinuous line, and a slender marginal 

 lunular line ; the inner discal line with broad black macular points, the inner medial 

 line accompanied by two black spots below the cell ; a distinct small black orbicular 

 and reniform spot, the latter enclosed by a slender black oval ring : hindwing brown, 

 palest at the base; cilia edged with cinereous- white. Body olivaceous brownish- 

 ochreous ; abdomen with two dorsal rows of black oval rings ; palpi and legs with 

 brown bands. 



Expanse, ^ 1, ? Ito inch. 



PLOTHEIA BASIFASCIA (Plate 157, Fig. 8, ^ ). 



Othora basifasda. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 911 (1865),? . 



Male and female : forewing pale cinereous-brown, slightly speckled with minute 



jlack scales on the anterior and posterior border, a broad brownish oblique subbasal 



band crossed by blackish sinuous lines, the two outer lines approximate and most 



distinct, a black line also obliquely crossing the band along the submedian vein ; an 



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