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white, enclosing a small black orbicular spot and clouded reniform mark : liindwing 

 brown, palest at the base; cilia edged with cinereous-white. Thorax, head, pal|)i, 

 and legs above sap-brown, speckled with grey ; abdomen cinereous-brown, with black 

 dorsal segmental rings ; legs with dark bauds. 

 Expanse l-rn inch. 



PLOTHEIA VELATA. 

 Othora velata, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 902 (1865), cJ. 



" Male. Dark ferruginous-brown : forewings with six black zigzag lines ; first, 

 second, and third lines antemedial, the other three bent beyond the renifoi-m mark ; 

 three large cinereous patclies ; first patch costal, extending to the tip, second on the 

 interior border, larger than the third, which is on the interior angle ; orbicular and 

 reniform distinguished by two black dots, the latter enclosed in a large black ringlet ; 

 marginal points black: hindwings ^neous-brown. Body whitish beneath. Head 

 whitish in front ; palpi whitish towards the base, thorax with two very short cinereous 

 stripes ; legs whitish, tibiae and tarsi blackish above. 



" Expanse 16 lines." 



PLOTHEIA CINERASCENS. 

 Othora cinei-ascens, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 903 (1865), ?. 



" Female. Cinereous : forewings with some indistinct brown zigzag lines ; two 

 blackish denticulated lines on the inner side of the orbicular mark ; a blackish much 

 outward curved line at half distance between the reniform and exterior border; 

 submarginal line pale cinereous, zigzag, incompletely bordered with ferruginous; 

 marginal lunules blackish ; a brown spot on the end of interior border ; orbicular and 

 reniform distinguished by two black dots of obliquely elevated scales, the latter 

 enclosed in a large irregular blackish ringlet ; hindwings with a brownish marginal 

 band. Body beneath white ; palpi with a blackish stripe at the base, and with a tuft 

 at the tip above ; thorax with a blackish stripe ; fore tegute with a blackish oblique 

 streak on each side ; legs beneath, and femora white. 



" Expanse 18 lines." 



PLOTHEIA ALBOTECTA. 

 Othora albotecta. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 903 (1865), ?. 



" Female. Cinereous-brown : forewings white ; base, one-third of the length of 

 the costa, and a large apical patch cinereous-brown, with the usual darker lines ; 

 marginal lunules black in the patch : hindwings cinereous, with a broad brownish 

 border. Body white beneath : pale white beneath, with a black stripe on the base, 

 and with a long porrect tuft above the tip; legs white, tibi^ and tarsi above cinereous, 

 with brown bands. 



" Expanse 18 lines." 



