22 TRIFID^E. 



covered with pale pinkish suffusions, transverse lines pale ochreous, 

 sinuous, 1st sub-basal, indistinct ; 2nd ante medial, touching the 

 inner side of the orbicular ; 3rd post medial, from near the end of 

 the ante medial line on the hinder margin, curving outwards and 

 branching into a large ring round the reniform ; 4th sub-marginal, 

 curved outwards in its centre and terminating in a prominent double 

 streak from the apex ; hind-wings paler and more pure brown colour, 

 without markings ; cilia ochreous, variegated with brown. 



Expanse of wings I r % inches. 

 a. Van Diemen's Land (type). 



Allied to E. spumigera (Guen.). 



1498. Euplexia melanospila. 



Trachea melanospila. Koll. : Hiigel's Kaschmir, iv. p. 480 (1844). 

 Euplexia melanospila. Hampson : Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, ii. p. 2 14 (1894). 



Swinhoe : Trans. Ent. Soc., Lond., 1895, p. 41. 



Trachea atriplicis. Koll. (nee Linn.) : 1. c., p. 479. 



Eurois auriplena. Walker: xi. 557 (1857). 



Moore : P. Z. S., Lond., 1867, P- 5 8 - 



- C. and S. : Cat. Moths of India, iii. 299. 1925 (1888). 

 Hmn. : 111. Typ. Lep. Het., B. M., viii. 14. 370 (1891). 



Hadena aiiriplena. Butler : P. Z. S., Lond., 1881, p. 618. 



- Leech : P. Z. S., Lond., 1889, p. 508. 



Trachea auriplena. Moore : Lep. Ceylon, iii. p. 37, pi. 148, f. 2 (1884). 



- Hampson: 1. c., ix. 17. 377 (1893). 

 Euplexia auriplena. Swinhoe: Trans. Ent. Soc., Lond., 1895, P- 4 1 - 



Type (auriplena). Ceylon, in B. M. 



a. India. b. Khasia Hills. c. Darjiling (Mowis). 



1499. Euplexia atriplicis. 



Phalcena-Noctua atriplicis. Linn. : Syst. Nat., x. p. 517 (1767). 

 Noctua atriplicis. Esper. : Schm. Eur., iv. pi. 163, f. 1-3 (1786). 

 Trachea atriplicis. Hiibn. : Verz., p. 219 (1816). 



Leech : P. Z. S., Lond., 1889, p. 510. 



Hadena atriplicis. Guen.: Noct., ii. p. 99 (1852). 



Meyrick : Hand. Brit. Lep., p. 128 (1895). 

 Polia atriplicis. Herr. Schaff. : Schm., ii. p. 263 (1854). 

 Hadena gnoma. Butler : Ann. Mag. N. H. (5), i. p. 195 (1878). 



- 111. Typ. Lep. Het., B. M., ii. p. 32, pi. 31, f. 7 

 (1878). 



Type (gnoma}. Yokohama, in B. M. 

 a. Yokohama (2). 



The Japanese examples are larger than the European, but other- 

 wise are identical. 



1500. Euplexia aurigera. 



Berrhaa aurigera. Walker: xv. 1721 (1858). 



- Moore : P. Z. S., Lond., 1881, p. 356. 



- Descr. Ind. Lep. Atk., p. 128 (1882). 



- C. and S. : Cat. Moths of India, iii. 301. 1946 (1888). 

 Euplexia aurigera. Hampson : Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, ii. p. 215 (1894). 



