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surface black irrorated with white. Fore wing purplish fuscous ; 

 some pinkish at base aud below costa near base ; a black spot 

 above vein 1 before the antemedial band defined on inner side by 

 a white striga representing the subbasal line, and above by a 

 white fascia connected with the white antemedial band from 

 subcostal nervure to inner margin, angled outwards on median 

 nervure and above inner margin ; orbicular quadrate, fuscous 

 defined by white at sides only and with black before and beyond it 

 in cell ; reniform white with slight fuscous spot in upper part, con- 

 fluent below with the white postmedial area, and emitting a slight 

 white streak on median nervure to the orbicular ; the medial 

 area black below the cell and pale reddish at inner margin; a 

 purplish fuscous band beyond the reniform, the area bej'ond it white 

 to the subterminal line, below vein 4 bent iuAvards to lower edge 

 of reniform ; postmedial line very indistinct, formed of black 

 scales, bent outwards below costa, then double, minutely waved,, 

 below vein 4 bent inwards to lower angle of cell, then oblique, 

 the costa beyond it black with some white points ; subterminal line 

 slight, white defined on inner side by black between veins 7 and 2, 

 waved, more strongly below vein 4, the area beyond it purplish 

 fuscous on apical half, pale brownish on inner half; a terminal 

 series of slight black lunules ; cilia white at base, black at tips. 

 Hind wing fuscous black, some whitish at base, a small postmedial 

 white spot on vein 2 with some black on each side of it and a 

 wedge-shaped white patch on termen from above vein 2 to vein 1 ; 

 cilia white at base, black at tips ; the underside black-brown 

 irrorated with white, some white below cell, a white discoidal spot 

 and traces of diffused black postmedial and subterminal lines. 

 Hah. Madras, Nilgiris {Heim.j)son), 1 § type. ExiJ. 42 millim, 



3003, Euplexia laetevirens. 



Diphtera Imtcvirens, Oberth. Jit. Ent. x. p. 17, pi. ii. f. 6 (1884) ; Staud. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 185. 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with white ; patagia with 

 golden green patches ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen brown 

 mixed with white. Fore wing dark brown with patches of golden 

 green in the interspaces, the veins with slight whitish streaks ; 

 subbasal line white, angled outwards below cell to, or nearly to, 

 antemedial baud and ending at vein 1 ; antemedial band white, 

 nearly straight from costa to above inner margin, then bent 

 inwards, emitting a white streak on inner side in submedian fold; 

 claviform represented by a white lunule; orbicular a small round 

 white spot ; reniform white with two small dark spots in upper 

 part, its lower edge excised ; faint traces of a medial line oblique 

 from costa to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial 

 line indistinct, slightly defined by whitish on outer side, strongly 

 bent outwards below costa, then dentate, oblique below vein 4, 

 some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line represented 



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