ILLUSTRATIONS 



OF 



BRITISH ENTOMOLOGY. 



LEPIDOPTERA. 

 Genus CX. — Euplexia mihi. 



Falpi moderate, subclavate, clothed Avith elongate scales, the terminal joint 

 exposed, obtuse, rather slender ; basal joint slightly curved, rather longer 

 than the third, which is somewhat attenuated and acute ; the second as long 

 again as the third, and gradually attenuated to the apex, which is obhquely 

 truncate: maxillae long. Antennae stout, elongate, closely ciliated in the males, 

 with a few short bristles in the females : head small, with a dense frontal 

 crest : eyes naked : thorax stout, subquadrate, with a double crest posteriorly : 

 abdomen moderate, carinated, and crested on the back, the crest on the third 

 segment very long and conspicuous, the terminal segment in the males broad, 

 semicircular, and fringed with long fascicles of hair; in the females somewhat 

 triangular, and but slightly fringed : wings short, entire, deflexed, and longi- 

 tudinally wrinkled during repose : cilia emarginate : stigmata very large. 



Caterpillar naked, smooth : pupa subterranean. 



Euplexia differs from Mamestra in having the anterior wings 

 during repose longitudinally wrinkled, the eyes naked, the thorax 

 strongly crested, the wings entire, but the cilia dentate ; and the 

 males are further distinguished by the broad semicircular plate at 

 the apex of the abdomen. 



Sp. 1. lucipara. Alis anticis purpurascentibus fascia media margineque postico 

 fuscis, stigmate postico Jlavo. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 3 — 4 lin.) 



Ph. No. lucipara. Linne,—Don. vii. pi. 230. f. 2. — Eu. lucipara. Steph. Caial. 

 pt. ii. p. 84. No. 6226. 



Head and thorax dusky-black, crest tipped with purplish-red: anterior wings 

 shining purplish, griseous, or reddish-ash ; the base with several irregular 

 black spots and marks ; the middle with an angulated fuscous or black fascia, 

 in which the stigmata are placed, the anterior of which is of a plain leaden- 

 brown, the posterior oval, yellow, with a brown hook, and placed on the 

 outer margin of the fascia : the posterior margin fuscous, with an undulated 

 pale striga more or less margined with dusky oV black spots : cilia fuscous, 



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