OETHOSIA. — EADINACRA. 77 



OIlTnOSIID.E. 



Orthosia bicornis. (Plate CXLY. fig. 18.) 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Male. Violaceous grey. Fore ^ving with indistinct darker lineal markings ; four dark 

 strigaj from the costa, subbasal, antemedial, medial, and postmedial ; a black crescent in the 

 cell ; three black spots on the discocellulars, and a black triangle beyond the cell ; sub- 

 marginal and antccilial ochreous-grcy bands. Hing wing shining white ; veins, apex, and 

 outer margin more or less smoky. Underside white ; the costal, apical, and outer areas 

 of fore wing suffused with ochreous brown ; a dark streak from costa two thirds from base ; 

 hind wing with the costa suffused with ochreous brown, most widely at apex ; a dark speck 

 at upper end of cell. 



HADENID.E. 



Euplexia fasciata. (Plate CXLV. fig. 20.) 



Expanse li inch. 



Female. Fore wing : ground-colour white; a purplish -grey band of irregular width along 

 two thirds of costa, with two black streaks beyond it; a narrow subbasal curved black band 

 from costa to submedian nervure, where it expands into two large conjoined spots on each 

 side of the nervure ; a pinkish-brown patch below the costa on each side of the subbasal 

 band ; a wide irregular medial band, bent inwards along the submedian vein, the lower 

 portion brownish black outlined with black, the upper portion purple-grey, bounded by two 

 black teeth outlined in white, from the costal band ; a purple-grey band from the extremity 

 of the costal band to third median nervule ; two narrow parallel waved lines across the areji 

 beyond this band ; a submarginal denticulate band from first discoidal to first median nervule ; 

 a large pale brown patch on the outer margin extending inside the denticulate baud ; the 

 outer margin outside the band purple-grey from the brown patch to apex. Hind wing 

 smoky black ; antecilial and cilial black lunulatc lines. Underside smoky black ; a large 

 white spot at end of cell of each wing ; fom- white specks on costa of fore wing near apex ; 

 cilia of hind wing white near the anal angle. Head, collar, and antcnute black ; thorax and 

 abdomen smoky white. 



Differs from E. ulhovittata and pectinala in having a dark band from the costa outside 

 the medial band. 



Eadinacra mus. (Plate CXLV. fig. 9.) 



Expanse 1-1 -1^2 iuch. 



31ale and female. Mouse-brown ; narrow indistinct antemedial, postmedial, and sub- 

 marginal bands ; rcniform brown and indistinct. Hind wing smoky brown ; an indistinct 



