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2998. Euplexia pectinata. 



Euplexia pectinata, "Warr. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 308 ; Hinpsn. 111. Het. B. M. 

 viii. p. 14, pi. 143. f. 4 ; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 222. 



Head and thorax fuscous black mixed with a few white scales, 

 the metathoracic crest tipped with white ; antennae with the basal 

 joint white, the shaft ringed with white ; tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen fuscous mixed with white, the crests tipped with white. 

 Fore wing fuscous black, the basal area with some rufous in and 

 below cell; subbasal line white defined on each side by black, 

 angled outwards in cell, with dentate black mark beyond it above 

 vein 1 and another below it above inner margin ; a pure white 

 antemedial band, nearly straight from costa to below cell, strongly 

 angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin ; medial 



Fig. 34. — Euplexia pectinata, S- \- 



area black, fuscous at costa and red-brown at inner margin ; 

 orbicular rather V-shaped open above and below, fuscous defined by 

 white lines at sides ; postmedial area white slightly tinged with grey 

 and rufous, the reniform placed on it, white slightly defined by rufous 

 and with some rufous in upper pait, narrow and angled inwards on 

 median nervure to near orbicular ; postmedial line very indistinct, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved to 

 lower edge of reniform and slightly bent outwards to inner margin, 

 some white points and dark streaks beyond it on costa; subterminal 

 line fine, white defined by black on inner side except towards costa 

 and inner margin, crenulate between veins 4 and 1, some greyish 

 beyond it towards tornus ; cilia brown and fuscous with slight grey 

 line at base and white tips. Hind wing whitish, the costal and 

 terminal areas broadly suffused with fuscous in male, in female 

 wholly suti'used with fuscous ; a faint waved whitish postmedial 

 line with blackish spot before it at vein 2 ; a slight whitish line 

 just before termen from vein 4 to tornus with slight black marks 

 at veins 3, 2 ; cilia with fine pale line at base and white tips ; 

 the underside white irrorated with brown, the costal area brown 

 irrorated with white, a discoidal lunule and postmedial line excurved 

 below costa. 



Hah. Punjab: Kulu, Sultanpur {G. Young), 1 $, Dalhousie 

 (Harford), 1 $ , Dharmsala {Hocking), 1 S , ^ $ , Thundiani 

 {Yerbury), 3 c? , 3 5 fyp^^ Umballa {Reed), 1 §; Madras, 

 Nijgiris {Swinlioe), 1 $ . Exp, 36-40 millim. 



