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irroratecl with black ; a broad diffused irregular medial fuscous band 

 expanding on costa towards apex and on inner margin towards 

 base, with a very small elongate tuft of raised scales on it in middle 

 of cell ; two minute black discoidal points; faint traces of a sub- 

 terminal line; a very slight brown shade on apical part of terminal 

 area ; a terminal series of minute blaek points. Hind wing semi- 

 hyaline white ; the termen slightly tinged with brown towards 

 apex and with some slight points at middle ; the underside with the 

 costal area slightly tinged with brown. 



Hah. Br. E. Aprica, Kikuyu, Nairobi 2:)lains (CraivsJiai/), 1 5 

 type. Kvp. 30 millim. 



Genus PLOTHEIA. 



Type. 



Flothna, Wlk. xiii. 1108 (1857) ^ecrescens. 



Egelexta, Wlk. xv. 1747(1858) clecreseens. 



Galleriomojyha, Feld. Wien. Ent. Mon. vi. p. 37, note (1862) . decrescens. 



Othora, Wlk. xxxiii. 902 (1865) decrescens. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint obliquely upturned to 

 above vertex of iiead and fringed with long ?cales behind towards extremity, 

 the 3rd long and porrect ; frons smooth, with tuft of hair above ; eyes hirge, 

 round ; antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed ahnost entirely with scales 

 and without crests ; fore femora and tibiiB fringed wilh long hair, the tarsal 

 joints with tufts of scales, the mid and liind tibiae moderately fi-inged with 

 hair; abdomen with dorsal series of crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, 

 the termeu evenly curved, orenulate; veins 3 and 5 I'rom near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long areole ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 fully developed 

 from above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to 

 middle. 



6607. Plotlieia decrescens. 



Gadirtha decrescens, Wlk. xiii. 1104 (1857); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 369. 

 Plotheia frontalis,Wlk. xiii. 1109 (1857); Hmpsn. 111. Het. B.M. ix. 



p. 106,"pl. 164. ff. 1-32. 

 Egelesta rudivitta, Wlk. xv. 1748 (1858). 

 Galleriomorpha lichenoides, Nietner, Coffee Tree and its enemies p. 13 



(1861); Feld. Wien. Ent. Mon. vi. p. 38 (1862). 

 Gadirtha spiorcata, Wlk. xxxiii. 896 (1865), 

 Gadirtha quttidosa, Wlk. xxxiii. 897 (1865). 

 Othora velata, Wlk. xxxiii. 902 (1865). 

 Othora alhotecta. Wlk. xxxiii. 903 (1865). 

 Othora cinerascens, Wlk. xxxiii. 903 (1865). 

 Othora canescens, Wlk. xxxiii. 904 (1^5). 

 Othora omista, Wlk. xxxiii. 905 (18()5). 

 Othora subglauca, Wlk. xxxiii. 905 (1865). 

 Othora signata, Wlk. xxxiii. 906 (1865). 

 Othora pla.giata, Wlk. xxxiii. 907 (1865). 

 Othora albivitta, Wlk. xxxiii. 908 (1865). 

 Othora lata, Wlk. xxxiii. 909 (1865), 

 Othora concisa, Wlk. xxxiii. 910 (1865). 

 Othora hasifascia, Wlk. xxxiii. 911 (1865). 

 Othora imprimens. Wlk. xxxiii. 911 (1865). 



Plotheia lativitta, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 106, pi. 157. f. 11 (1885). 

 Plotheia griseovirens, Moore. Lep. Oeyl. iii. p. 108, pi. 158. f. 2 (1885). 



Head and thorax olive-greyisb, pale reddish brown mixed with 

 black, or blackish; palpi black at sides towards base; abdomen 



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