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ochreous, defined on each side by red-brown scales, minutely waved. 

 Hind wing yellowish white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated 

 with red-brown, a small discoidal lunule and slight curved post- 

 medial line ; the underside with the costal area strongly irrorated 

 with red-brown, a discoidal spot, ciirved postmedial line, and 

 diffused subterminal line. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Kilima 'njaro {Hannington), 1 c? type. 

 Exp. 34 millim. 



Genus EUPLEXIA. 



ype- 



Euplexia, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haiist. iii. p. 3 (1829) lucipara. 



Karana, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. lOB (1882) decorata. 



Yula, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 193 (1906) novcggidnece. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd sliort ; frons smooth ; eyes 

 large, rounded ; anteniiaa of male typically ciliated ; head and thorax clothed 

 chiefly with scales, the vertex of head with ridge of scales, the pro- and meta- 

 thorax with spreading crests ; abdomen with dorsal series of crests, the crest 

 on 3rd segment large, and lateral tufts of liair on terminal segments. Fore 

 wing with the apex reoi-angular, the termen slightly waved ; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with yems 3, 4 from angle of cell 

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

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennse of female bipectinate with moderate branches. 



2996. Euplexia catepliiodes, n. sp. 



5 . Head and thorax black-brown slightly tinged with rufous 

 and mixed with a few grey hairs ; tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen fuscous brown tinged with grey. Pore wing black-brown 

 tinged with grey and mixed with some rufous ; subbasal line 

 represented by slight black points below costa and cell ; antemedial 

 line indistinctly double, interrupted, black filled in with rufous, 

 incurved in cell and angled inwards on vein 1, the claviform 



Euplexia caiephiodes, $ . 



represented by a small black mark on its outer edge ; orbicular and 

 reiiiform defined by black, the former small, round, the latter con- 

 stricted at middle ; medial line diffused, blackish, oblique from 

 costa to reniform and from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; 

 postmedial line black, double, the outer line indistinct and defined 

 by rufous on outer side, slightly bent outwards below costa, in- 

 curved at diseal fold and oblique below vein 4 ; subterminal line 



