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and thorax clothed chiefly with scales, tegulse produced to a slight dorsal 

 ridge, thorax with single broad ridge-like dorsal crest ; tibise moderately 

 fringed with hair ; abdomen with complete series of dorsal crests, the crests 

 of 3rd and 4th segments large, some rough hair at base and lateral fringes 

 of hair. Forewing triangular, the apex rounded, the termen crenulate ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomos- 

 ing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3*4 from 

 angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6-7 from upper 

 ngle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 

 1718. Eurabila lignea. 



Genus Euplexidia. 



Type. 

 Euplexidia, Hmpsn., Moths. Ind., iv., p. 461 (1896) ; Swinh., 



A. M. N. H., (6) xix., p. 165 (1897) . . . . noctuiformu . 



3146. Euplbxidia ^octuifobmis. 



Genus Checupa. 



Type. 



Checupa, Moore, P. Z. S., 1867, p. 60 . . . . . . fortissimo. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd jont thick, hardly 

 reaching to middle of frons, and smoothly scaled, the 3rd short ; frons 

 smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed chiefly 

 with scales, the pro- and metathorax with small divided crests; tibise 

 thickly fringed with long hair in male ; abdomen dorsally flattened and 

 with small crests on two basal segments and lateral fringes of hair, the 

 male with large ventral tufts of hair from base, and paired lateral tufts from 

 penultimate segment. Forewing very long and narrow, the apex rounded, 

 the termen obliquely curved and crenulate, the cell clothed with long hair 

 on underside ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from below upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. 

 Hindwing with veins 3*4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars; 6 - 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only ; male with some long hair on upperside in cell and on inner area, on 

 underside with fringes of hair from basal half of costa, median nervure and 

 base of vein 4, and submedian fold. 



1782. Ch'ecfpa fortissima. 



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