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at upper extremity ; a green postmedial line edged by waved black lines and 

 excurved beyond the cell ; a sinuous green subterminal line connected with 

 the postmedial line by a streak on inner margin and with a pale spot on its 

 inner side above vein 5 ; a terminal series of black limules ; cilia brown and 

 green. Hindwing pale-yellowish with obscure fuscous discoidal 'spot and 

 sinuous postmedial line ; the terminal area broadly suffused with fuscous • 

 cilia ochreous with a blackish line through them. 



Habitat. — Sikhim 1800' (Dudgeon), Exp. 42 mill. Type— In B. M, 



Sec. I lie, {Boriotana). Forewing of male with elongate foveal depression 

 between bases of veins 6'7 which are thickened and curved. 



1756a. EuPLExiA nivifascia, Wlk,, XV., 1651, 



Choluata ehurneifera, Wlk., Journ. Linn. Soc,, VII,, 57. 



Head and thorax dark red-brown ; abdomen paler with the dorsal tufts rufous. 

 Forewing dark red-brown ; a pure white antetnedial band with irregular edges 

 the outer edge being slightly toothed outwards below costa and strongly 

 below cell ; a white point in cell and irregular discoidal lunule with white 

 spot above it on costa and two points beyond it ; a white line from vein 4 to 

 inner margin, dentate inwards above vein 1 in the Bornean specimens deve- 

 loped into a quadrate patch on inner area in the Sikhim specimen • an indis- 

 tinct oblique red streak from apex and patch at middle, Hindwing dull red- 

 dish-brown, whitish towards base. Underside of both wings irrorated with 

 white ; hindwing with discoidal lunule. 



Habitat. — Sikhim, Borneo. Exp. 28-30 mill. 



17586, EdPLEXiA SUBPORPUEEA, Leech, Trans. Ent, Soc. 1899, p, 71, 



Head and thorax purple and grey, meta-thorax chestnut-red, palpi below 

 coxae and parts of pectus fiery-red ; tibias purplish-fuscous, tarsi whitish • 

 abdomen whitish, brown, and purplish, the dorsal tufts chestnut-red, the anal 

 tuft pale-chestnut, the ventral surface crimson. Forewing ochreous irrorated 

 and suffused in parts with brown ; a purplish patch in and below base of 

 cell ; the orbicular somewhat Y-shaped, with purplish edges and brownish 

 centre ; the reniform with parallel edges, a chestnut patch on it and a purplish 

 line on its inner edge ; a purplish line with dark edges from lower angle of 

 cell to above middle of inner margin, then recurved to submedian fold and 

 with bright chestnut suffusion in its angle ; a double fuscous postmedial line 

 from just below costa, angled at vein 5, then incurved to the line from angle 

 of cell and with its outer line sinuous ; a pale slightly sinuous subterminal 

 line from vein 7 to inner margin, defined on each side by olive-brown • the 

 termen irrorated with blue-grey, Hindwing pale-ochreous, the costal and 

 terminal areas tinged with pink, the inner area with brown ; an indistinct fine 

 sinuous postmedial line ; two indistinct fine subterminal lines coalescing and 

 becoming diffused from vein 2 to inner margin * some grey suffusion on 

 termen. Underside suffused with fiery-red ; forewing with curved hind- 

 wing with sinuous postmedial line ; both wings with rather obscure subter- 

 Ininalline and dafk blotches on termen. . . ; : _ 



