no THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



PLOTHEIA PLAGIATA. 



Othora plagiata, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 907 (1865), 5. 



" Male. Blackish : forewings glaucous-tinged ; with some transverse black 

 zigzag lines, and with three whitish patches ; first patch small, elongated, very near 

 the base, second large, extending to the costa, including the reuiform, accompanied 

 by three whitish streaks near its hind border ; third small, narrow, extending to 

 exterior border ; the line beyond second patch much curved outward ; a blackish- 

 cinei'eous apical spot, containing some little white streaks ; submarginal and marginal 

 points white ; reniform mark blackish, small, enclosed in a blackish ringlet : hindwings 

 dark cinereous. Body and palpi white beneath ; palpi with a black stripe on the side, 

 tufted at tip ; legs white beneath. 



" Expanse 18 lines." 



PLOTHEIA CONCISA. 



Othora concisa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 910 (1865), $ . 



" Female. Cinereous fawn colour : forewings with three brown indistinct post- 

 medial lines which are much bent outward ; submarginal line cinereous, zigzag ; 

 marginal lunules brown, with a white oblique band near the base, bordered with deep 

 black on the outer side ; orbicular and reniform marks represented by brown dots, of 

 which the scales are obhquely ascending, the latter enclosed in a large irregular brown 

 ringlet : hindwings cinereous. Palpi white beneath, deep black on the side towards 

 the base. 



" Expanse 18 lines." 



PLOTHEIA IMPRIMENS. 



Othoi-a imprimens, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 911 (1865), ^J. 



" Male. Dark brown : forewings with a broad black stripe which extends along 

 the interior border and is broadest at the base, where it occupies nearly the whole 

 breadth, this stripe contains two white lines and two white patches ; a white apical 

 patch ; some diffuse indistinct blackish lines and two distinct concise black lines, 

 between which there is a large irregular black ringlet, which contains a little black 

 line : hindwings cinereous-brown. Body and legs whitish beneath ; palpi whitish 

 beneath ; abdomen cinereous-brown, black speckled, with a black stripe which extends 

 along nearly half the length from the base, hind borders of the segments whitish. 



" Expanse 15 lines." 



PLOTHEIA SUBGLAUCA. 

 Othora subglauca. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 905 (1865), J. 



" Male. Dark brown : forewings with transverse black denticulated lines ; more 

 than half the exterior surface interruptedly greenish-cinereous ; a double outward 

 curved blackish line beyond the reniform mark ; submarginal and marginal points 



