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3005. Euplexia g-emmifera. 



Plusia geonmifera, Wlk. xii. 934 (1857) ; Hmpsii. Moths Ind. ii. p. 217 ; 



Stand. Cat Lep. pal. p. 185. 

 Karana similis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 407; Butl. 111. Het. B. M. vii. 



p. 60, pi. J28, f. 8. 



Head white mixed with black ; palpi black, white at tips ; sides 

 of frons black ; thorax black-brown mixed with white ; patagia 

 with golden-green patches ; pectus and legs black-brown mixed 

 with white, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous mixed 

 with grey. Fore wing deep purplish grey irrorated with black 

 and with patches and streaks of golden green in the interspaces ; 

 subbasal band silvery white, slightly sinuous, 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 defined by black ; reniform 

 white with two small black spots in upper part, its lower edge 

 excised ; an indistinct medial line oblique from costa to lower 

 angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line blackish 

 defined on each side by silvery grey and by white towards costa, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, oblique 

 below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal 

 line represented by a series of small golden-green spots with slight 

 dentate black marks on their inner sides ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules. Hind wing white, the costal and terminal 

 areas suft'used with fuscous brown, in female the inner area tinged 

 with brown ; a slight sinuous postmedial line ; cilia white mixed 

 with brown ; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with black, blackish patches on costal area at middle 

 and apex, a discoidal point and crenulate postmedial line incurved 

 below vein 4. 



Hah. Punjab, Murree (Harford), 1 J , 2 2 , Dalhousie {Harford), 

 2 5 1 Dharmsala (HocHng), 5 $ , type similis ; Bombay, Poena ; 

 Made AS, Nilgiris (Siuinhoe), 1 $ ; hab. ign. 1 cS type. Br2T. 38- 

 40 millim. 



3006. *Euplexia novaegiiinfiffi. (Plate CXTII. fig. 31.) 



Yiila novaguinecB, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 193 (1906). 



(^ . Head and thorax white with silver and golden reflections; 

 palpi deep red-brown with white points at extremities of joints ; 

 irons red-brown with some white scales ; antennse black ; patagia 

 with deep red-brown patches at base and near tips ; crests red- 

 brown ; pectus and legs dark red-brown, the tibite and tarsi banded 

 with white ; abdomen yellowish white suff'used with rufous, the 

 ventral surface black-brown except at extremity. Fore wing deep 

 red-brown with gold and silver reflections ; a tult of reddish-yellow 

 scales at base ; a silvery white subbasal band with sinuous black 



