370 NOCTUIDJE. 



2199. Plotheia celtis, Moore, Lep. E. I. Co. p. 353, pi. 16, figs. 8, 8 a 



(larva) ; Lep. Ceyl iii, pi. 158, fig. 5 ; ' C. fy 8. no. 2424. 

 Subrita curviferella, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1745. 

 Selepa docilis, Butl. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 619 ; Q $ S. no. 2425. 

 Gadirtha discigera, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc. vii, p. 163. 



$ . Head and thorax pale brown ; abdomen fuscous. Fore 

 wing pale brown with a purplish-grey tinge ; traces of subbasal and 

 medial waved black lines ; a double postmedial line excurved round 

 end of cell and enclosing a blackish circular patch, the line crossed 

 by black streaks on each side of vein 2 ; a waved submarginal pale 

 line and series of short marginal dark streaks. Hind wing 

 whitish, suffused with fuscous towards outer margin. 



Fig. 2Q3.Plothcia celtis, $ . \. 



c? with the hind wing fuscous and a black patch on inner area 

 below. 



Docilis is a greyer form from Karachi. 



Larva yellow ; the head black ; dorsal black patches on 5th, 10th, 

 and llth somites ; a lateral reddish line with a series of black spots. 



Hal. Nagas ; throughout Peninsular India and Ceylon ; Java. 

 Evp. 24 millim. 



2200. Plotheia aenescens, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 288. 



$ . Differs from celtis in the head and thorax being darker ; the 

 fore wing much more suffused with purplish fuscous ; the rounded 

 orbicular and lunulate reniform dark and more denned ; the post- 

 medial line more sinuous and less excurved beyond the cell. Hind 

 wing pale fuscous. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 32 millim. 



2201. Plotheia strigifera, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 103, pi. 158, 



figs. 3, 3 a (larva) ; C. $ S. no. 2427. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale brown. Fore wing pale brown 

 suffused with red-brown ; the veins streaked with dark brown ; an 

 indistinct anternedial curved line and postmedial line excurved 

 round end of cell, with a prominent black fascia between them 

 below median nervure ; a waved submarginal and black marginal 

 line. Hind wing pale fuscous. 



Another form has the head, thorax, and abdomen whitish grey, 

 the tegulae ferruginous ; fore wing with the basal and outer areas 

 grey, the medial area ferruginous; no black fascia below the 

 median nervure ; hind wing white with the margin fuscous. 



