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other at inner margin and with the area between them dark, a dark 

 patch beyond the first above inner margin ; the orbicular large, 



Fig. 126. Euplexia semifascia, tf. }. 



indistinct, and fuscous; the reniform large, whitish, ill-defined, 

 and with dark centre ; an indistinct waved submarginal line, slightly 

 angled below the costa. Abdomen and hind wing fuscous, the 

 latter with slight pale and dark marks on vein 2. 



Closely allied to E. lucipara, Linn., from Europe. 



Hal. N.W. Himalayas ; Satara ; Mlgiris. Exp. 38 millim. 



1727. Euplexia metallica, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 666 ; C.$S. no. 2076. 



Differs from semifascia in being brighter red-brown ; abdomen 

 tinged with ochreous. Fore wing suffused with purple ; a rufous 

 line on inner margin ; the ante- and postmedial lines further apart 

 at inner margin, the former more waved, the latter more curved ; 

 the submarginal line more prominent. Hind wing with the cilia 

 white-tipped. 



In one specimen the palpi are whitish in front ; the ante- and 

 postmedial lines straighter. 



IJab. Sikhim ; Bombay. Exp. 45 millim. 



1728. Euplexia discisignata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 57, pi. 6, fig. 9; 



C. # S. no. 1958. 

 Euplexia striatovirens, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 58 ; C.$ S. no. 1962. 



Differs from semifascia in the base of the fore wing being 

 yellowish green ; the antemedial line yellow-green and evenly 

 curved ; the inner area between it and the postmedial line yellow- 

 green. Hind wing with the inner area whitish ; cilia of both 

 wings rufous. 



In discisicpiata the basal and postmedial areas of the fore wing 

 are pale, and black marks come out strongly before the orbicular 

 and between it and the reuiform ; in striatovirens the basal and 

 postmedial areas are brown, the latter with an ill-defined pale 

 band from costa before apex to vein 5, and no black marks round 

 the stigmata. 



Hab. Sikhim. Kvp. 35 millim. 



1729. Euplexia albiplaga. 



Euplexia albonuta, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 92, pi. 161, fig. 14 

 (praeocc.). 



