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what erect ; slight tufts of raised scales on disk ; veins 8 and 9 

 anastomosing to form the areole. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 

 from angle of cell, 5 from just above angle. 



2198. Plotheia decrescens, Wlk. Cat xiii, p. 1104; C. # & no. 2401. 

 Plotheia frontalis, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1109 : Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, 



pi. 164, figs. 1-32; C. $ S. no. 2411. 



Egelesta mdivitta, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1748 ; C. $ S. no. 2419. 

 Galleriomorpha lichenoides, Feld. Wien. ent. Mon. vi. 1862. p. 38 ; 



C. $ S. no. 2416. 



Gadirtha guttulosa, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 897 ; C. fy S. no. 2413. 

 Gadirtha spurcata, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 896 ; C. fy S. no. 2420. 

 Othora canescens, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 904. 

 Othora onusta, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 905. 

 Othora signata, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 906. 

 Othora lata, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 909. 



Othora basifasoia, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 911 ; C. fy & no. 2408. 

 Othora subglauca, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 905 ; C. fy S. no. 2421. 

 Othora cinerascens, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 903 ; C. $ S. no. 2409. 

 Othora velata, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 902 ; C. $ S. no. 2422. 

 Othora albotecta, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 903 ; C.f.8. no. 2407. 

 Othora plagiata, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 907 ; C. $ S. no. 2418. 

 Othora concisa, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 910 ; C. % S. no. 2410. 

 Othora imprimens, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 911 ; C. 8f S. no. 2414. 

 Othora albivitta, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 908 ; C. 8f S. no. 2403. 

 Plotheia lativitta, Moore, Lep. Ceijl. iii, p. 106, pi. 157, fig. 11 ; 



C. $ S. no. 2415. 

 Plotheia griseovirens, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 108, pi. 158, fig. 2 ; 



C. $ S. no. 2412. 



Ground-colour of head, thorax, and fore wing pale brown, olive- 

 green, or grey. Fore wing with indistinct double subbasal, ante- 

 medial, postmedial, and single submarginal line ; the orbicular and 

 reniforin represented by raised specks of scales ; abdomen and 

 hind wing fuscous, the former with some dark ring-marks. 



The colour may be almost uniform olive-brown, green, or pale 

 brown ; or the fore wing may have blackish patches at base of inner 

 margin and apex ; or the inner area may be suffused with brown 

 and have black longitudinal streaks ; or there may be an ochreous 

 patch on the medial costal area ; or the whole medial area may be 

 suffused with white, or with a white subbasal band, or with a 

 white patch on centre of inner margin, or patches on thorax and 

 at apex, or small specks scattered over the wing, or a white 

 fascia from base to near outer margin ; or the whole medial and 

 outer areas, except the apex, creamy white ; the ante- and post- 

 medial lines may be white with smoky black or grey between them, 

 with white snbapical streaks and others on inner area ; or these 

 streaks may be black or chestnut ; or there may be a black stigma 

 below the centre of costa ; or the wing may be marked with black 

 specks, or almost wholly suffused with ferruginous red. 



Hab. Ceylon. Exp. 36 millim. 



YOL. II. 2 B 



