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

 base only. 



1730. Paratrachea chalybeata. 



Ncenia chalybeata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 64 , Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. 



Phal. B. M. vii., p. '217, pi. 113, f. 25. 

 Hadena spectabilis, Pouj. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1887, p. ex. 



Genus Etjplexia. Type. 



Eupleaia, Steph., 111. Brit. Ent. Haust., Ill, p. 3 (1829) . . lucipara. 

 Karana, Moore, Lep., Atk., p. 106 (1882) . . . . decorata. 



Yula, Beth., Baker., Nov. Zool. XIII, p. 193 (1906) . . novceguinece. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectinate with moderate 

 branches, the apex simple. 



A. Forewing with the antemedial band strongly angled 



outwards below median nervure . . . . sinuata. 



B. Forewing with the antemedial band not angled out- 



wards below median nervure . . . . . . pectinata. 



1743ff. Etjplexia sinuata. 



Eupleaia sinuata, Moore, Lep. Atk., p. 125, pi. 4, f. 25 (1882). 



S ■ Head and thorax purplish-black ; antennse with tufts of white hair 

 from basal joint ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous, whitish at base. 

 Forewing purplish fuscous, the basal area with some rufous below the cell • 

 subbasal line represented by a whitish striga from costa and hoop-shaped 

 mark on a black patch below the cell confluent with another black mark on 

 inner margin ; a white antemedial band tinged with brown towards costa, 

 strongly angled outwards below the cell and above inner margin and inwards 

 on vein 1 ; orbicular quadrate, defined slightly by white at sides only and 

 with black before it in cell and between it and reniform, which is fuscous 

 defined by whitish and with some whitish in centre, angled inwards on 

 median nervure to the orbicular ; the medial area below the cell black 

 rufous at inner margin ; the postmedial area whitish tinged with rufous and 

 pale brown : the postmedial line obsolescent and defined by white on outer 

 side, obliquely bent outwards from below costa to vein 6, below vein 5 in- 

 curved to lower angle of cell, then oblique, slightly angled outwards at vein 

 2 and to inner margin, the costa beyond it black with white points ; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, pale, slightly waved, defined on inner side by 

 black from below costa to submedian fold, the area beyond it purplish 

 fuscous to vein 4, then greyish ; cilia black with brownish line at base. 

 Hindwing whitish tinged with fuscous, the costal and terminal areas broadly 

 suffused with fuscous ; indistinct postmedial and subterminal lines defined 

 on outer side by whitish below vein 3 and with some blackish before them 

 at vein 2 ; cilia blackish with a fine white line at base, pale towards tornus ■ 

 the underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous, 

 a small discoidal lunule and diffused postmedial and subterminal lines. 



