218 NOCTUIDJE. 



brown, its edge oblique and toothed near inner margin ; a broad 

 irregular white band, narrow at costa ; a broad medial dark band, 

 with the costal half blue-black, the orbicular and renit'orm being 

 slightly indicated by white lines, its inner half red-brown and its 

 inner and outer edges angled in interno-median interspace ; the 

 outer area white, irrorated with fuscous, with traces of a rufous 

 postmedial band from costa to vein 5; a broad marginal blue- 

 black band from costa to vein 2, its lower part with traces of 

 dentate pale marks. Hind wing fuscous, the basal and inner 

 areas whitish ; some white and black marks on vein 2 towards 

 outer margin. Underside of fore wing with a prominent white 

 cell-spot. 



The Japanese form has more reddish suffusion on fore wing, 

 and sinuata from Sikhim has the white markings very much 

 reduced. 



Hob. Japan ; Sikhim. Exp. 44 millim. 



1744. Euplexia distorta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881. p. 354, pi. 38. %. 18 ; 



C. $ S. no. 1959. 



Head black, the extremity of palpi and basal joint of antennae 

 white ; collar black, broadly fringed with white ; thorax black, with 

 broad white stripes on vertex and patagia ; abdomen fuscous black, 

 whitish at base ; legs black and white. Tore wing white, with 

 broad irregular basal and subbasal black bands, conjoined at inner 

 margin ; a large triangular black patch on centre of costa ; a very 

 irregular black band from the lower angle of cell to inner margin ; 

 a spot beyond the cell ; a triangular patch on the costa before 

 apex ; an irregular submarginal band, not reaching the costa or 

 inner margin, with its outer edge dentate. Hind wing white, with 

 an apical black patch continued towards anal angle as a series of 

 conjoined spots. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 36 millim. 



B. Hind wincj yelloiv. 

 a. Palpi with the 3rd joint reaching vertex of head. 



1745. Euplexia inepta, Butl. III Het. vii, p. 55, pi. 127, figs. 6, 7. 



Dark brown ; abdomen ochreous at extremity. Tore wing with 

 the subbasal and antemedial double waved lines indistinct ; the 

 orbicular indistinct, with black outline ; the renit'orm ochreous- 

 brown ; the claviform and postmedial and submarginal lines 

 indistinct, the second excurved beyond the cell. Hind wing pale 

 yellow ; the basal area and area below median uervure suffused 

 with fuscous ; an indistinct postmedial line ; a broad fuscous 

 marginal band. 



Some specimens have the thorax and outer area of fore wing 

 pale, the renit'orm white. 



Hob. Dharmsala. Exp. 46 millim. 



