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filled in with fuscous ; orbicular and. reniform defined by black, the former 

 round, the latter with some white in its outer part, two white points on its 

 inner edge and four or five on its outer ; a medial striga from costa ; post- 

 medial line indistinctly double, dentate, bent outwards below costa and incurved 

 below vein 3; subterminal line indistinct, greyish, excurved at vein 7 and 

 slightly dentate at veins 4'3 ; a terminal series of small black lunules and 

 sometimes grey points at the veins. Hindwing ochreous suffused with fuscous 

 brown, especially in female ; cilia ochreous with a dark line through them ; 

 the underside paler with dark discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial line and 

 diffused subterminal line, more or less showing through to upperside. 



Habitat. — W. China ; Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpore, Simla ; Sikhim Tibet, 

 Yatung. Exp. 38-42 mill. 

 1717. e. Euplexia leprosticta, n. sp. 



$ Head and tegulas white and brown ; thorax white with paired black spots on 

 pro. meso-and metathorax, the last -with some red-brown on their upper edge; 

 legs fuscous and white, the tarsi banded with black ; abdomen white irrorated 

 with brown. Forewing brown tinged with greenish and irrorated with black ; 

 indistinct double dentate black antemedial, medial, postmedial and subterminal 

 lines ; some rounded white patches with pale greenish centres ; a large patch at 

 base of inner area ; a patch on middle of costa conjoined to a discoidal spot ; 

 two patches on apical part of costal area the 1st largest ; a smaller patch near 

 tornus ; a postmedial series of white points. Hindwing pale strongly tinged 

 with brown on terminal half. 



Habitat. - Ceylon, Matele (Pole). Exp. 40 mill. Type in B. M. 

 1722. a. Euplexia niveifera, n. sp. 



$ Head and thorax black and brown, the greater part of frons, vertex 

 of head, tegulas, patagia and vertex of thorax white ; pectus brown 

 irrorated with grey, the legs blackish, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdo- 

 men brown. Forewing olive-brown ; a white patch at base of costa 

 traversed by two waved black lines and with a black spot on its lower 

 edge ; an oblique crenulate antemedial white line defined by black on each 

 side from subcostal nervure to inner margin ; the medial area mostly suffused 

 with black ; the orbicular and reniform white edged with black, the latter 

 with black lunule on it, conjoined to some white spots on costa and the 

 former with an irregular white patch below it ; a crenulate black postmedial 

 line defined by white on outer side, bent outwards from below costa to vein 4 

 below which it is incurved ; a dentate subterminal line with the area 

 beyond it white with small blackish spots on it except towards apex and larger 

 spots at middle and above tornus ; a crenulate black terminal line ; cilia inter- 

 sected with white. Hindwing brown with paler patch below end of cell, traces 

 of a postmedial line angled on vein 4 ; a blackish streak on vein 2 and white 

 spot before termen ; cilia white at tips ; underside suffused with grey with 

 black discoidal spot and diffused curved postmedial and subterminal lines. 

 Habitat— Simla 7,000, (Pilcher). Exp. 40 mill. Type in B. M. 



