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with a black spot on it below the costa. Hind wing fuscous, the 

 costa and outer margin reddish. Underside reddish ochreous, with 

 black cell-spot and postmedial line to each wing. 

 Hob. ISikhim. Exp. 36 millim. 



1741. Euplexia plumbeola, n. sp. 



<$ . Head and thorax slaty blue-grey ; abdomen fuscous. Fore 

 wing blue-grey ; the area between the subbasal and antemedial 

 lines ochreous ; reniform white and ochreous ; the postmedial line 

 treble and excurved beyond the cell ; an irregular submarginal 

 yellow-brown line or band. Hind wing pale fuscous or whitish, 

 with the outer area grey ; some dark suffusion on vein 2, and a 

 white submarginal waved line from vein 4 to anal angle. Under- 

 side of fore wing with a black lunule at end of cell on a black- 

 speckled white patch ; hind wing white and black-speckled, with a 

 black cell-spot and waved postmedial line. 



Hob. JSikhim (Moller). Exp. 44 millim. Type in coll. Elwes. 



1742. Euplexia gemmifera, Wlk. Cat. xii, p. 934; C. $ 8. no. 1963. 

 Karana similis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 407 ; Butl. III. Ret. vii, 



pi. 128, fig-. 8. 

 Karana decorata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 107 ; C. $ S. no. 1772. 



Head and thorax clothed with black and white scales ; collar 

 and tegulae with some metallic blue-green scales ; abdomen dark 

 brown. Fore wing black, with streaks of blue-green scales on 

 costa, median nervure, interno-median interspace, and inner 

 margin ; the subbasal and antemedial double lines filled in with 

 white, the latter sending a tooth towards base in interno-median 

 interspace ; the orbicular small and pure white ; reniform quadrate, 

 white with two black spots on it, and with white marks on the 

 costa above it ; claviform a white lunule ; a submarginal series of 

 black spots edged by metallic blue-green lunules, with some ferru- 

 ginous beyond them. Hind wing white, the costal and outer areas 

 suffused with fuscous ; a faint postmedial line. 



The form similis has the markings of the fore wing silvery 

 white instead of creamy and the claviform small ; decorata has 

 the whole hind wing black except the white points and a patch 

 towards anal angle, on the cilia. 



Hob. Dharmsiila ; Sikhim ; Poona ; Nilgiris. Exp. 40 millim. 



1743. Euplexia albovittata, Moore, P. Z. S. ]867, p. 57, pi. 0, fig. 10 ; 



C. $ S. no. 1956. 



Euplexia sinuata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 125, pi. 4, fig. 25 ; C. $ S. 

 no. I960. 



Head and thorax black ; tips of palpi and basal tufts of antennae 

 white ; the tuft on metathorax white, with rufous edges ; abdomen 

 black, whitish at base. Fore wing with the basal urea black- 



