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irrorated with black ; a broad diffused irregular medial fuscous band 
expanding on costa towards apex and on inner margin towards 
base, with a very small elongate tuft of raised scales on it in middle 
of cell; two minute black discoidal points; faint traces of a sub- 
terminal line; a very slight brown shade on apical part of terminal 
area; a terminal series of minute black points. Hind wing semi- 
hyaline white; the termen slightly tinged with brown towards 
apex and with some slight points at middle; the underside with the 
costal area slightly tinged with brown. 
Hab. Br. KE. Avertca, Kikuyu, Nairobi plains (Crawshay), 1 Q 
type. xp. 30 millim. 
Genus PLOTHETA. 
Type. 
lorcet Wilke xaiiey lil OSi(SS7))neccdeesacos << secs acemenstenl aaaasiene decrescens. 
Bigelestia, NNW ike se WAGE (UUCRS)  coconscacusogaone dace snononcbadeouascoc decrescens. 
Galleriomorpha, Feld. Wien. Ent. Mon. vi. p. 37, note (1862). decrescens. 
Othora, W1k. xxxiii. 902 (1865) ...............5+ Sree Raee cence eas decrescens. 
Proboscis fully developed; palpi with the 2nd joint obliquely upturned to 
above vertex of head and fringed with long scales behind towards extremity, 
the 8rd leng and porrect ; frons smooth, with tuft of hair above; eyes large, 
round ; antenne of male ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with seales 
and without crests; fore femora and tibie fringed with leng hair, the tarsal 
joints with tufts of scales, the mid and hind tibiz moderately fringed with 
hair; abdomen with dorsal series of crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, 
the termen evenly curved, crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 
6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long areole ; 
11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from augle of cell; 5 fully developed 
from above angle; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell to 
middle. 
6607. Plotheia decrescens. 
Gadirtha decrescens, Wk. xiii. 1104 (1857); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 369. 
Plotheia frontalis, Wik. xiii. 1109 (1857); Hmpsn. Ill. Het. B.M. ix. 
p. 106, pl. 164. ff. 1-32. 
Fgelesta rudivitta, Wik. xv. 1748 (1858). 
Galleriomorpha lichenoides, Nietner, Coffee Tree and its enemies p. 13 
(1861); Feld. Wien. Ent. Mon. vi. p. 38 (1862). 
Gadirtha spurcata, Wik. xxxiii. 896 (1865), 
Gadirtha guttulosa, W1\k. xxxiii. 897 (1865). 
Othora velata, W1\k. xxxili. 902 (1865). 
Othora albotecta. W\k. xxxiil. 903 (1865). 
Othora cinerascens, Wk. xxxiii. 903 (1865). 
Othora canescens, Wik. xxxiii. 904 (1865). 
Othora onusta, Wik. xxxiii. 905 (1865). 
Othora subglauca, Wik. xxxiii. 905 (1865). 
Othora signata, W\k. xxxiii. 906 (1865). 
Othora plagiata, W\k. xxxiii. 907 (1865). 
Othora aibivitta, W1\k. xxxiil. 908 (1865). 
Othora lata, W\k. xxxiii. 909 (1865), 
Othora concisa, W\k. xxxiii. 910 (1865). 
Othora basifascia, W\k. xxxiii. 911 (1865). 
Othora imprimens, W1k. xxxiii. 911 (1865). 
Plotheia lativitta, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 106, pl. 157. f. 11 (1885). 
Plotheia griseovirens, Moore. Lep. Ceyl. ii. p. 108, pl. 158. f. 2 (1885). 
Head and thorax olive-grevish, pale reddish brown mixed with 
black, or blackish; palpi black at sides towards base; abdomen 
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