230 NOCTPID^. 



liue on it from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, 

 black filled in with silvery white and with triangular silver patch 

 before it below the cell, angled outwards below costa, then 

 slight! j^ sinuous ; claviform large, silver defined by black and with 

 small silver spot beyond it ; orbicular a small elliptical silver spot 

 defined by black ; reniform anvil-shaped, silver defined by black ; 

 postmedial line double, black filled in with silver, bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely waved, incurved below vein 4, some 

 white points beyond it on costa : subterminal line only defined by 

 the area beyond it being silver except at apex, with golden-brown 

 patches at diseal fold and above tornus, incurved at diseal fold 

 and below vein 2 ; a terminal series of red-brown striae ; cilia 

 white mixed with rufous and with waved red-brown line through 

 them. Hind wing pale red-brown, whitish at base ; cilia white at 

 tiyjs ; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas suffused 

 with red-brown, the former irrorated with white, a medial red- 

 brown bar from costa, discoidal spot, waved sinuous postmedial 

 line, and terminal series of stride with small white spots before 

 them. 



Hah. Be. IS". Guinea, Ekeikei (PraU), typet 6 , in Coll, Bethune- 

 Baker, Dinawa, Kebea Mts. Exp. 32 millim. 



3007. Euplexia calamistrata. 



DMiithotcia calamistrata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 12i, pi. iv. f. 123 (1882) ; 

 Hiiipsn. Moths Incl. ii. p. 216. 



Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with some rufous and 

 black scales ; palpi blackish at sides ; frons with lateral black 

 bars ; antennae ringed black and white ; pectus black in front ; 

 tibiae and tarsi banded with blackish ; abdomen ochreous irrorated 

 with fuscous, whitish at base, the dorsal crests tipped with black. 

 Fore wing olive-ochreous slightly tinged in parts with fuscous ; 

 subbasal line black defined by white on outer side, double at costa, 

 waved, from costa to vein 1, with a black streak defined by white 

 above beyond it in submedian fold to the curved white antemedial 

 band defined on outer side by a few black scales and by two black 

 striae at costa ; claviform with olive and black centre and while 

 annulus defined by black at extremity ; orbicular and reniform 

 with pale olive centres and some black in lower portions and white 

 annuli defined by black at sides only in former, at sides and below 

 in latter, both rather oblique elliptical ; a medial black spot on 

 costa ; postmedial line marked by double black spots at costa, then 

 slight, black defined by whitish on outer side, bent outwards below 

 costa, oblique below vein G, incurved at submedian interspace and 

 bent outwards to inner margin, the costa beyond it blackish with 

 white points ; subterminal line white defined on inner side by 

 blackish at costa and by small dentate black marks at middle, and 

 on outer side by black from vein 6 to inner margin forming streaks 

 on the veins, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and bent outwards 

 to tornus ; a fine crenulate terminal line ; cilia ochreous mixed 



