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veins and terminal area darker ; cilia ochreous ; the underside ochreous white, 

 the costal and terminal areas tinged with purplish and irrorated with brown, 

 a dark discoidal point and curved postmedial line with minute dark streaks 

 on the veins. 



ab. 1. borealis. — Darker and browner. Lapland. 



ab. 2. — Pale purplish red. 



ab. 3. expallescens . — -Forewing ochreous suffused with pale red except 

 on inner and postmedial areas, the terminal area tinged with brown. 

 W. and E. Turkistan ; Tibet. 



Habitat. — Canada, IT. S. A.: Europe; Armenia : W. Turkistan; E. 

 Turkistan; Tibet; Mongolia; E. Siberia; Japan; Kashmir, Goorais 

 Valley, Nubra. Exp. 46-54 mill. 



Larva, Kirby, Butt, and Moths Eur., p. 240; Hffm. Raup., p. 97, pi. 27. 

 f. 14. 



Dark-grey with the thoracic and anal plates black ; head brown. Food 

 plants, Grasses, 4. 



Genus Rhynchoplexia. 



Type. 



Rhynchoplexia, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., vii, p. 433 (1908) . .rubra. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed 

 with long hair in front, the 3rd long, naked, porrect ; frons smooth, with 

 tuft of hair ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; head and thorax 

 clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the pro- and metathorax with spread- 

 ing crests ; tibise fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. 

 Forewing with the termen crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from 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 just below middle of discocellulars ; 6*7 from upper angle; 8 anasto- 

 mosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Forewing purplish red, the reniform defined by white 



marks on outer side . . .. .. .. rubra. 



B. Forewing fuscous brown, the reniform not defined by 



white marks on outer side . . . . . . griseimarginata. 



1767. Rhynchoplexia rubra. 



1779. Rhynchoplexia griseimarginata. 



Genus Lasiplexia. 



Type. 



Lasiplexia, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal., B. M. vii, p. 483 (1908). . cuprina. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to 



about middle of frons and fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd moderate 



porrect ; frons smooth, with large tuft of hair ; eyes large, round ; vertex of 



head with crest ; thorax clothed with hair only, the pro- and metathorax 



