110 NOCTtJTD.T:. 



fold ; elaviform defined by rufous, acute at extremity ; orbicular 

 and reniform narrow with rufous centres and white annuli defined 

 by deep rufous, the foi'mer oblique, open below, the latter with white 

 discoidal line in middle ; medial line rufous, oblique from costa to 

 median norvure, then waved; posttnedial line rufous defined by 

 white on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then waved, 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some white points beyond it on 



Fig. 17. — Eu.rahilalignca, c?. \. 



eosta ; subterminal line white defined by rufous on inner side, 

 waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; terminal 

 area with purple marks irrorated with white at extremities of veins 

 except towards apex, with black lunules between them ; cilia black 

 with fine pale line at base and ochreous patches at and below apex. 

 Hind wing ochreous tinged with fuscous ; the underside with the 

 costal area faintly tinged with red and irrorated with black, a 

 discoidal lunule and faint curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur ((?. Young), 2 cJ , Dharmsala 

 (Uodiiuj), 3 c?, 2 § type. ^,rp. 40-52 millim. 



Genus EUPLEXIDIA. 



Euphxidia, Hnipsn. Moths Iiid. iv. p. 461 (1890); Swinh. Type. 



A.M. N. H. (6) xix. p. 165 (1897) noctuiformis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, tlie 2nd joint reaching vertex of 

 liead and moderately .scaled, the 3i-d oblique ; frons smootli ; eyes large, 

 round ; antennaj of male minutely cihated ; head and thorax clothed chiefly 

 with scales, the pro- and metathorax v^^ith divided crests, tibia; moderately 

 fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing 

 rather narrow, the apex rounded, the tennen slightly crenulate ; vein 3 from 

 close to angle of cell ; .5almost straight from just below middle of discoceUulars ; 

 from upper a.ngle ; 9, 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just 

 below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



2856. Euplexidia noctuiformis. 



Enphxidia noctuiformis, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 461 (,1896) ; Swinh. 

 A. M.N. H. (6)" xix. p. 165 (1897). 



(S . Head and thorax clothed with pale rufous and whitish 

 scales ; frons with blackish bars at sides and brown bar above ; 

 tegulaj with diffused black band near tips ; tarsi blackish ringed 

 with white ; abdomen pule rufous, the dorsal crests blackish. 



