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obsolete towards costa, augled outwards below costa, then oblique 

 waved and joining the postmedial line above inner margin ; medial 

 area suffused with deep rufous or blackish in and below cell ; clavi- 

 form absent ; orbicular and reniform purplish slightly defined by 

 white and black, the former oblique elliptical, open above, the latter 

 narrow, oblique and emitting a streak on median nervure to the 

 orbicular; postmedial line rather indistinct, bent outwards below 

 costa, then minutely dentate, obliquely incurved below vein 5, some 

 slight pale points beyond it on costa; subterminal line indistinct, 

 greyish, slightly sinuous, defined on each side by brown and with 

 two small black spots on it below costa ; cilia with slight whitish 

 or red line at base. Hind wing uniform fuscous brown ; the 

 underside brownish grey, with slight discoidal lunule and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. Be. E. Africa, Masailand, E. Q,\\?iSo{Betton), 2 d" , 1 $ , type. 

 Exp. 32 millim. 



3013. Euplexia amaranta. 



Euplcxia amaranta, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 110. f. 8 (1874). 



Head and thorax red-brown tinged with purplish and mixed with 

 a few white scales ; tarsi tinged with ochreous white ; abdomen 

 fuscous mixed with grey, the crest on 3rd segment reddish. Pore 

 wing dark brown tinged with purplish fuscous and pink or olive 

 green irrorated with a few white scales ; subbasal line black, sinuous, 

 from costa to vein 1, with point beyond it in cell and short streak 

 above vein 1 ; antemedial line black defined by pinkish or olive on 

 inner side, angled outwards below costa, then oblique sinuous and 

 joining the postmedial line above inner margin ; claviform small, 

 defined by black ; orbicular purplish fuscous defined by black, oblique 

 elliptical and confluent with a spot below cell ; reniform ochreous 

 white tinged with red and its centre more or less defined by brown, 

 rather oblique elliptical and confluent with the spot below cell ; 

 postmedial line strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely 

 dentate and produced to alight black and white streaks on veins 

 4, 3, incurved below vein 4 ; postmedial area pinkish or olive on 

 costal half, purplish on inner half, with some pale points on costa ; 

 subterminal line ochreous white defined by fuscous on inner side 

 and by black spots in the interspaces from costa to vein 6, angled 

 outwards at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of slight black lunules ; 

 cilia with a fine rufous line at base. Hind wing fuscous brown, the 

 cilia reddish ochreous with a brown line through them ; the under- 

 side yellowish white, the costal area, or in female wholly, irrorated 

 with brown, a black discoidal spot, dift'ased sinuous postmedial and 

 subterminal lines. 



Bah. Uganda, Ruwenzori (Legge and WoUaston), 1 d" ; I^atal, 

 Durban [Burrows, Good)., Leigh), i J , 3 2 • Exp. 34-36 millim. 



Larva. Very pale yellow with the warts and stigmata black; 

 head pale orange with black line aV)ove mouth. 



