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Genus EUPLEXIDIA. 



Euplexidia, Swinh. MS. 



Type, E. noctuiformis, Swinh. 



Range. Khasis. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head and 

 thickly scaled, the 3rd oblique ; antennae of male minutely ciliated ; 

 metathorax and medial abdominal segments with dorsal tufts ; 

 tibiae hairy. Fore wing with the apex rounded ; vein 10 anasto- 

 mosing slightly with 8, 9 to form the areole. Hind wing with 

 vein 5 almost obsolete and from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 

 stalked ; 8 leaving the cell close to the base. 



314 b. Euplexidia noctniformis, Swinh. MS. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale rufous ; frons white ; collar, 

 tegulae, and metathoracic tuft tipped with grey. Fore wing pale 

 rufous irr orated with black ; some grey-green and black markings on 

 costa and a small subbasal spot ; a black \i -shaped mark below 

 end of cell, with fuscous in the loop and grey-green below the top 



stroke ; a speck in cell 

 and traces of a grey- 

 green outline to the 

 obscure reniform stigma; 

 a postmedial black and 

 grey-green mark on inner 

 margin ; an indistinct 

 sinuous whitish submar- 

 Fig. 246. Euplexidia noctuiformis, <$. \. ginal line. Hind wing 



silvery white, with a 



fuscous marginal line ; underside with indistinct postmedial line, 

 incurved and obsolescent below vein 6. 

 Hob. Khasis. Exp. 38 millim. 



319 a. Ichthyura anastomosis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, 2, p. 824. 



<$ . Brown ; the vertex of head and a triangular patch on collar 

 and thorax dark chocolate. Pore wing with a greyish tinge on 

 basal area ; two oblique fuscous-edged grey antemedial lines ; a 

 discocellular line on an obscure round stigma ; a postmedial line 

 excurved below costa and slightly curved from vein 3 to inner 

 margin ; an obscure waved submarginal line, with some greyish 

 patches on its inner edge from costa to vein 3, where it is bent 

 inwards ; some rufous at middle of outer area. 



$ paler, with the thorax and fore wing ocbreous in tone, the 

 latter with the apical area rufous. Hind wing with an indistinct 

 medial line. 



Hob. Europe ; Siberia ; Ceylon. Exp., <$ 38, $ 46 millim. 



