HYPOGRAMMID^. Ill 



white ; some short white streaks near the tip of the costa ; orbicular and reniform 

 mark composed of blackish elevated scales, the latter enclosed in a double brown 

 ringlet : hindwings cinereous, brown towards the exterior border. Body and palpi 

 white beneath, palpi with a black stripe extending to near the tip ; legs white beneath ; 

 femora entirely white. 

 " Expanse 18 lines." 



PLOTHEIA ALBIVITTA. 

 Othora albivitta, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 908 (1865),?, 

 " Female. Cinereous-brown : forewings with some blackish zigzag lines, most 

 of these are interrupted by a broad irregular white stripe, which extends from the 

 base to full three-fourths of the length, where it is contiguous to a double angular 

 blackish-brown line ; submarginal line cinereous, zigzag, bordered with ferruginous 

 on the inner side ; marginal lunules blackish ; orbicular and reniform mark black, the 

 latter enclosed in a large irregular blackish ringlet : hindwings cinereous, with a 

 broad brownish border. Palpi whitish beneath, striped with black on the side. 

 " Expanse 18 lines." 



PLOTHEIA ORBICULARIS. 

 Diomea orbicularis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xv. p. 1804 (1856), ?. 

 " Female. Blackish-brown ; brownish-cinereous beneath : forewings irregularly 

 varied with ochraceous speckles ; exterior part mostly whitish ; lines deep black, 

 undulating, not distinct ; reniform mark small, deep black. Palpi cinereous, with 

 blackish bands : hindwings brown ; abdomen brown, with two blackish crests towards 

 the base ; tarsi with black bands. 

 " Expanse 10 lines." 



PLOTHEIA CHLOROMELLA. 

 Diomea cMoromella, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xv. p. 1804 (1858), ?. 

 " Female. Green ; brownish-cinereous beneath : forewings with three very 

 diffuse black bands ; the third includiug the green denticulated and undulating 

 submarginal line ; interior and exterior lines white, undulating, most remote from 

 each other in the middle ; orl^icular and reniform marks deep black, the former as a 

 dot, the latter rather larger ; fringe blackish : hindwings brown. Thorax with two 

 black bands ; abdomen brown ; fore tarsi and middle tibiae with black bands. 

 " Expanse 10 lines." 



PLOTHEIA RUDIVITTA. 



Egelesta rudivitta, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xv. p. 1748 (1858), ?. 



" Female. Pale wood colour : forewings with the disc mostly ferruginous-brown ; 



lines brown, denticulated, partly black, very incomplete ; a black band near the base, 



emitting a black discal stripe, which extends nearly to the middle of the exterior 



