EDPLEXIDIA. CHECrPA. Ill 



Fore wJDg pale rufous suffused in parts with violaceous, sparsely 

 irrorated with black, the costal area irrorated with pale yellow ; 

 subbasal line represented by black stride from costa and cell defined 

 by yellowish on outer side ; antemedial line with black striga from 

 costa, then indistinct, diffused, interrupted, oblique to above inner 

 margin where it is angled outwards; claviform large, strongly 

 defined by black and Avith black streak from its lower extremity to 

 a blaclv luniile below angle of cell ; orbicular represented by a black 

 line on its outer edge connected with the costa by a bar ; reniform 

 with its centre slightly and incompletely defined by black with 

 traces of a yellowish annulus outside it ; postmedial line double at 



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Fig. 18. — Euplexidla nociuiformis, S- \- 



costa, then very indistinct., bent outwards below costa, then incurved 

 and at vein 4 bent inwards to lower angle of cell and the black 

 lunule below it, the area beyond it suft'used with violaceous, some 

 pale points on costa ; subterminal line formed of small yellowish 

 lunules, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal scries of 

 small black lunules defined by yellowish on inner side ; cilia 

 chequered rufous and fuscous. Hind wing white, the veins and 

 inner area tinged with pale rufous ; a brown terminal line and line 

 near base of cilia ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with rufous, a small diseoidal spot and crenulate postmedial litie, 

 oblique and obsolescent below vein 6. 



Eah. Assam, Khiisis, 1 S type. Exp. 38 millim. 



Genus CHECUPA. 



Type. 

 Checwpa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 60 , fortis^ima. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint thick, liai-dly 

 reaching middle of irons and smoothly scaled, the 3rd short; frons smooth'; 

 eyes large, round : antennfe of male ciliated ; thorax clothed chiefly with 

 scales, the pro- and metathorax with small divided crests; tibije thickly iringed 

 with long liair in male ; abdomen dorsally flattened and with small crests on 

 two basal segments and lateral fringes of hair, the male with large ventral 

 tuft of hair from base and paired latei-al tufts iroiu penultimate seguient. 

 Fore wing very long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen obliquely 

 curved and crenulate, the cell clothed with long hair on underside ; veins 3 and 

 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from below upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 I'rom 

 angle of coll ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 



