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margin ; a purplish fuscous band beyond the reniform, the area beyond it 

 white to the subterminal line, below vein 4 bent inwards to lower edge of 

 reniform ; postmedial line very indistinct, formed of black scales bent out- 

 wards below costa, then double, minutely waved, below vein 4 bent inwards 

 to lower angle of cell, then oblique, the costa beyond it black with some 

 white points ; subterminal line slight, white defined on inner side by black 

 between veins 7 and 2, waved, more strongly below vein 4, the area beyond 

 it purplish fuscous on apical half, pale brownish on inner half ; a terminal 

 series of slight black lunules ; cilia white at base, black at tips. Hindwing 

 fuscous black, some whitish at base, a small postmedial white spot on vein 2 

 with some black on each side of it and a wedge-shaped white patch on 

 termen from above vein 2 to vein 1 ; cilia white at base, black at tips, the 

 underside black-brown irrorated with white, some white below the cell, 

 a white discoidal spot and traces of diffused black postmedial and sub- 

 terminal lines. 



Habitat. — Madras, Nilgiris. Exp. 42, mill. 



1743c. EUPLEXIA DECORATA. 



Karana decorata, Moore, Lep. Atk, p. 107 (1882) ; Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. 

 B. M. vii, p. 228, pi. 113, f. 30. 



Head white mixed with black ; palpi black with some white in front and 

 at tips ; antennae black ; thorax black-brown mixed with red-brown and 

 white, the patagia with curved golden-green marks ; pectus and legs black- 

 brown irrorated with white, the tibise with some rufous hair above, the 

 tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen black-brown irrorated with white, the 

 crests red-brown. Forewing black irrorated with white and with patches 

 and streaks of golden-green, the veins purplish grey, the medial area with 

 reddish streaks below subcostal nervure and vein 7, on median nervure 

 and between veins 4 and 2, and above vein 1 ; a silvery white subbasal 

 band, from costa to vein 1, expanding into slight streaks in and below 

 cell ; a white antemedial band, nearly straight from costa to above inner 

 margin, then bent inwards, emitting an oblique streak on inner side 

 above vein 1 ; claviform represented by a white lunule on a black patch : 

 orbicular a small round white spot defined by black ; reniform white with 

 two small round black spots in its upper part, its brown edge excised, a 

 white spot above it on costa ; an indistinct medial line, oblique from costa 

 to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line indistinct, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, then dentate, incurved below vein 7 and 

 oblique below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 very indistinct, formed of yellowish white stride and small spots below veins 

 7 and 5 with obscure blackish spots on their inner side ; a terminal series of 

 small black spots ; cilia black and white with fine white line at base. 

 Hindwing black-brown with indistinct sinuous postmedial line, some white 

 on termen below vein 2 ; cilia brown and white with white patch at 



