220 NOCTDID.^. 



represented b}'- a series of small dentate black marks on blackish 

 suffusion and with short black streaks above and below vein 4 ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing black-brown 

 with larg-e white patch on basal area from subcostal nervure to 

 vein 1 ; a slight black terminal line from apex to vein 2 with 

 slight white line before it ; cilia chequered Avhite and brown from 

 apex to vein 4 ; the underside, tinged with grey, the white patch 

 extending to inner margin, a small discoidal spot connected with 

 the dark costal area. 



Hab. Transvaal, White E. (Coo/c-^),l $ type. Exp. 42 millim. 



Sect. II. AnteniiEe of male bipectinatewitii moderate branches, the apex simple. 



A. Fore wing with the antemedial band strongly angled outwards 



below median nervure sinuata. 



B. Fore wing with tlie antemedial band not angled outwards 



below median nervure pectinaia. 



2997. Euplexia sinuata. 



Euplexia sinuata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 125, pi. 4. f. 25 (1832); Hmpsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 217. 



c? . Head and thorax purplish black; antennae with tufts of 

 white hair from basal joint; tarsi ringed with white; abdomen 

 fuscous, whitish at base. Fore wing purplish fuscous, the basal 

 area with some rufous below the cell ; subbasal line represented by a 

 whitish striga from costa and a hoop-shaped mark on a black patch 

 beloAv cell confluent with another black mark on inner margin ; a 

 white antemedial band tinged with brown towards costa, strongly 

 angled outwards below cell and above inuer margin, and inwards 

 on vein 1 ; orbicular quadrate, purplish fuscous defined slightly 

 by white at sides only and with black in cell before it and between 

 it and reniform, which is fuscous defined by whitish and with 

 some whitish in centre, angled inwards on median nervure to the 

 orbicular; the medial area below the cell black, rufous at inner 

 margin ; the postmedial area whitish tinged with rufous and pale 

 brown ; the postmedial Hue obsolescent and defined by white on 

 outer side, obliquely bent outwards from below costa to vein 6, below 

 vein 5 incurved to lower angle of cell, then oblique, slightly angled 

 outwards at vein 2 and to inuer margin, the costa beyond it black 

 with white points : subterminal line indistinct, pale, slightly waved, 

 defined on inner side by black from below costa to submedian fold, 

 the area beyond it purplish fuscous to vein 4, then greyish ; cilia 

 black with brownish line at base. Hind wing whitish tinged with 

 fuscous, the costal and terminal areas broadly suffused with fuscous; 

 indistinct postmedial and subterminal lines defined by whitish on 

 outer side below vein 3 and with some blackish before them at 

 vein 2 ; cilia blackish with a fine white line at base, pale towards 

 tornus ; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated 

 with fuscous, a small discoidal lunule and diffused postmedial and 

 subterminal lines. 



Hah. SiKHiM (Mdller), 2 J . Exjy. 34 millim. 



