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with spreading crests ; tibise moderately fringed with hair : abdomen with 

 some rough hair at base and basal crest only. Forewing with the apex 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly 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 middle of discocellulars ; 6- 7 from upper angle; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. — Antennse of male bipectinate with rather short branches, the 

 apex serrate. 



1693. Lasiplexia cupkina. 



Apamea cuprina, Moore, P. Z. S., 1881, p. 345, pi. 38, f . 2. 

 Eurois chalybeata, Hmpsn., Moths. Ind., ii, p. 230 (nee. Wlk.). 



Sect. II. — Antennee of male ciliated. 



A. Forewing with white or pale spots on outer 



edge of reniform . . . . . . chalybeata. 



B. Forewing without white or pale spots on outer 



edge of reniform. 



a. Forewing red brown suffused with purplish- 



grey . . . . . . . . . . nubila. 



b. Forewing black brown irrorated with silvery 



blue . . . . . . . . . . cyanea. 



1783«. Lasiplexia chalybeata. 



1729a. Lasiplexia nubila. 



17836. Lasiplexia cyanea. 



Lasiplexia cyanea, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M, vii., p. 486, 

 pi. 11$ f. 32 (1908). 



5 . Head and thorax very dark brown, the head rather more rufous ; 

 tarsi ringed with whitish ; abdomen grey brown. Forewing very dark brown 

 with a reddish tinge, irrorated with some silvery blue scales especially on 

 medial area and termen ; subbasal line represented by a semi-circular 

 silvery blue mark below costa ; antemedial line indistinct, dark, defined on 

 inner side by silvery blue, angled outwards below costa, incurved in cell, 

 then excurved ; claviform slightly defined by silvery blue at extremity ; 

 orbicular irrorated with silvery blue and defined by black, oblique elliptical ; 

 reniform indistinct, slightly irrorated with blue, defined by black and its 

 centre also defined by black, a greyish lunule on its outer edge ; traces of a 

 curved dark medial line ; postmedial line indistinct, dark, defined on outer 

 side by silvery blue towards costa and inner margin, bent outwards below 

 costa, then minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line silvery blue, excurved at vein 7, 

 slightly angled outwards at veins 4-3 and inwards at submedian fold ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia dark brown at base, yellowish 

 brown at tips. Hindwing deep fuscous brown ; cilia yellowish with a dark 

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