f^E 3I0TES OF INDIA. I9& 



1682a. Hadena CHRYSONA,Borkh,, Naturg. Eur. Schmett, IV„ p. 264 (1792). 



Head, thorax and abdomen clothed with grey and fuscous hair ; patagia 

 edged with orange ; tarsi banded with black. Forewing grey and fuscous ; 

 waved subbasal and antemedial lines with the area between them rather paler, 

 the former with orange points on it below costa and cell, the latter with some 

 orange on it below the cell, then with two stronger sinuations ; the orbicular 

 and reniform with some orange on their edges, the former small ; the post- 

 medial line crenulate, excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved, the 

 area beyond it paler ; a subterminal series of small y-shaped black marks 

 with orange points between their arms ; a terminal series of small lunules ; 

 cilia chequered white and fuscous. Hindwing whitish, the veins and terminal 

 area broadly fuscous ; some white on termen towards tornus ; cilia with a 

 dark line through them, yellowish at base, white at tips, underside with dis- 

 coidal point and curved postmedial line. 



Habitat.—Envope ; Syria ; W. China ; Kashmir. Exp. 36 mill. 



Under Euplexia insert (syns) Borhotana, Wlk., IV., 1651 (1858) and Choluata 

 Wlk., Journ. Linn. Soc, VII,, 57 (1863). 



1717a. EUPLEXIA OXYDATA, U. Sp. 



$. Ferruginous-red ; head somewhat variegated with reddish-ochreous ; 

 meso- and meta-thorax reddish-ochreous ; tarsi banded with ochreous. Fore- 

 wing variegated with ochreoiis, especially in base of cell, on inner margin and 

 before the postmedial lino ; the veins streaked with fuscous ; the lines 

 ochraous deHned by fine ferruginous lines ; a short curved subbasal line ; the 

 antemedial line angled inwards in cell and on vein 1, outwards below the cell 

 and below vein 1 ; orbicular small ; the reniform with a white mitre-shaped 

 mark on it ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, oblique from costa to 

 vein 4, where it is angled, then incurved ; a subterminal series of small wedge- 

 shaped marks, the area beyond them tinged with fuscous except towards 

 apex ; cilia ferruginous and fuscous. Hindwing dark-brown ; the cilia pale- 

 ferruginous ; underside with the veins irrorated with ochreous and fuscous ; 

 a prominent dark cell spot. 



Ealitat.—'&ikhim, 7000' (Pilcher). Exp. 50 mill. Type— In B. M. 



1717&, EuPLEXIA PCRPDEINA, n. Sp. 



9. Head, thorax and forewing deep purplish-red; abdomen greyish- 

 brown, the extremity and ventral surface reddish. Forewing with a silky 

 texture ; the veins slightly streaked with fuscous ; the orbicular almost 

 obsolete ; the reniform white strongly irrorated with black ; a postmedial 

 series of white points on the veins. Hindwing fuscous-brown, the cilia pale- 

 chestnut ; underside with dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



^a6ita^.— Tibet, Yatung (Hobson). Exp. 42 mill. Type— In B. M. 



1717c. EuPLEXiA ASKOLDis, Oberth. Et. Ent. v. p. 72 pi. 3. f. 13 (1880), 



Apamea niralis Butl. Trans. Ent, Soc. 1881, p. 177, 



$. Head and tegulse red-brown and black mixed with white ; thorax and 

 abdomen pure white; legs fuscous with whitish bands on tarsi: abdomen 



