222 NOCTFID^E. 



SECT. IV. Antennae bipectinated in male, with very short 

 branches. 



1757. Euplexia icamba, SwinJi. A.M. N. H. (6) xii, p. 260. 



c? . Head and thorax black-brown with a reddish tinge ; abdo- 

 men dark fuscous, reddish towards extremity. Fore wing golden 

 green suffused with black, except before antemedial line and on 

 marginal area ; a subbasal waved black line ; an oblique ante- 

 medial dentate line with a stroiig tooth near inner margin, where it 

 almost joins the lunulate postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform 

 dark and ill-defined ; the submarginal line prominent and lunulate ; 

 cilia black at emarginations. Hind wing pale fuscous, with indistinct 

 diffused dark postmedial and submarginal lines; cilia black with 

 white points. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Khasis. Exp. 46 milliin. Type in B. M. 



1758. Euplexia cyanelinea, n. sp. 



c? . Differs from icamba in the head, thorax, and abdomen being 

 pnle red-brown. Fore wing with the green area less suffused ; the 

 ante- and postmedial lines metallic blue-grey. Hind wing dark 

 fuscous ; cilia of both wings tipped with white. 



Hab. Sikhim, 10,000 feet (Elwes). Exp. 45 millim. Type in 

 coll. Elwes. 



SECT. Y. (Chandata). Antennae bipectinated in male, 

 the branches long. 



1759. Euplexia pectinata, Warr. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 308; Hmpsn. III. 



Het. viii, pi. 143, fig. 4. 

 Euplexia fasciata, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 77, pi. 145, fig. 20. 



Differs from albovittata (p. 217) in the palpi and metathoracic tuft 

 being but slightly white ; the abdomen dark at base ; fore wing with 

 a black spot detached from the basal area ; the medial dark band 

 hardly angled at outer edge ; the postmedial band replaced by a 

 rufous spot beyond the cell ; the dentitions on the lower part of 

 the marginal band prominent. Hind wing arid underside black, 

 the former with the marks on vein 2, the latter with a white cell- 

 spot to each wing. 



In the form fasciata from the Mlgiris there is a prominent 

 dark postmedial band from the cost a to vein 5 instead of the 

 rufous spot. 



Hab. Dharmsala ; Kilgiris. Exp., J 40, $ 42 millim. 



1760. Euplexia partita, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 114, pi. 4, fig. 16 ; C. # S. 



no. 2093. 



c? Head white, black below ; collar white, fringed with black ; 

 thorax black, the patagia with white patches ; abdomen fuscous 

 black. Fore wing bluish white; two interrupted waved black 



