596 NOCTUIDE. 
blackish at base of cilia. Hind wing white; a slight rufous 
discoidal striga ; cilia rufous from apex to vein 2 on the extremity 
of which the rufous forms a slight streak. Underside of fore wing 
tinged with cupreous red except the inner area, the costal area 
irrorated with red to beyond middle, the apical parts of costal and 
terminal areas suffused with greenish grey and with a white 
subapical spot above vein 7; hind wing with the costal area and 
the terminal area to vein 3 tinged with yellow and irrorated with 
red, a red discoidal bar and sinuous postmedial and subterminal 
lines from costa to vein 3. 
9. Fore wing tinged with orange-red except on costal area ; 
hind wing tinged with orange-red, deeper on apical area, the inner 
area pale purplish grey. 
Hab, Stxum, type ft 2 in Coll. Rothschild ; Assam, Khasis,1 ¢, 
LO. Hap. 6 22 , @ 28 millim. 
Genus CHLOROPLAGA, nov. 
Type, C. nygmia. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 
middle of frons and slenderly scaled, the 3rd long; frons smooth; eyes large, 
round; antennx of male almost simple; thorax clothed with hair and scales 
mixed ‘and without crests; tibiz slightly fringed with bair; abdomen with 
dorsal crest at base only, the male with large lateral fans of acales covering a 
very large ventral orifice. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and 
acute, the termen evenly curved and not erenulate, the inner margin lobed ; 
veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 
10 from beyond 7; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 
ceil; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 
anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
7013. Chloroplaga nygmia. 
Acontia nygmia, Swinh. A. M. N, H. (6) xii. p. 217 (1893). 
3S. Head and thorax pale red-brown tinged with grey, the 
vertex of head with some green; palpi with some green at side of 
2nd joint ; pectus whitish; legs grey-brown, the fore cox red, the 
tibie and tarsi at base suffused with green in front; abdomen 
Fig. 237.—Chloroplaga nygmia, 3. } 
blood-red. Fore wing silvery grey tinged with red and in parts 
with green and irrorated with black; some blood-red at base of 
inner margin; small obliquely placed sap-green subbasal spots 
below costa and in the cell; a sap-green antemedial patch on costa 
