596 NOCTUIDJE. 



blackisli at base of cilia. Hind wing white ; a Blight rufoiis 

 discoidal striga ; cilia rufous from apex to vein 2 on the extremity 

 of which the rufoiis forms a slight streak. Underside of fore wing 

 tinged with cupreous red except the inner area, the costal area 

 irrorated with red to bej'ond middle, the apical parts of costal and 

 terminal areas suffused with greenish grej' and with a white 

 subapical spot above vein 7 ; hind wing with the costal area and 

 the terminal area to vein 3 tinged with yellow and irrorated with 

 red, a red discoidal bar and sinuous postmedial and subterminal 

 lines from costa to vein 3. 



2 . Fore wing tinged Avith orange-red except on costal area ; 

 hind wing tinged with orange-red, deeper on apical area, the inner 

 area pale purplish grey. 



Hah. SiKHiM, type t 2 in Coll. Rothschild ; Assam, Khasis, 1 d' , 

 1 2 . E.v2^. cT 22, 5 28 millim. 



Genus CHLOEOPLAGA, nov. 



Type, C. nygmia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi npturned, the 2ncl joint reaching about to 

 middle of frons and slenderly scaled, the 3rd long ; frons smooth ; eyes lai'ge, 

 round; antennas t)f male alaiost simple ; thorax clothed with hair and scales 

 mixed and without crests; tibiiB slightly fringed with hair; abdomen with 

 dorsal crest at base only, the male with large lateral fans of scales covering a 

 very large ventral orifice. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and 

 acute, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate, the inner margin lobed ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 

 10 from beyond 7; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell ; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 

 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



7013. Chloroplaga nygmia. 



Acontia nygmia, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xii. p. 217 (1893). 



cJ . Head and thorax pale red-broAvn tinged with grej', the 

 vertex of head with some green ; palpi with some green at side of 

 2nd joint ; pectus whitish ; legs grey-brown, the fore coxae red, the 

 tibiae and tarsi at base suffused with green in front; abdomen 



blood-red. Fore wing silvery grey tinged with red and in parts 

 with green and irrorated with black ; some blood-red at base of 

 inner margin ; small obliquely placed sap-green subbasal spots 

 below costa and in the cell ; a sap-green antemedial patch on costa 



