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3014. Euplexia chalybsa, n, sp. (Plate CXIV. fig. 3.) 



2 . Head and thorax purplish fuscous tinged with grey, tho 

 metathoracic crest pale brownish ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen 

 grey tiaged with fuscous, the dorsal crests darker. Fore wing- 

 purplish fuscous; subbasal line represented by double black strise 

 Irom costa and ceil iilled in with grey, a black point beyond it in 

 cell and black and grey marks below the cell and above inner 

 margin ; antemedial line black defined by whitish on inner side, 

 angled outwards below costa, then oblique, rather sinuous ; the 

 medial area suffused with black and grey except towards costa and 

 inner margin ; elaviform slightly defined by black ; orbicular purplish 

 fuscous defined at sides only by grey and black, confluent with a 

 spot below cell ; reniform white with some fuscous in upper and 

 lower parts, defined by black on inner side, rather oblique elliptical 

 and confluent with the spot below cell ; ])Ostmedial line indistinct, 

 bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold, at vein 4 bent 

 inwards to lower angle of cell, then oblique sinuous to inner margin; 

 ])Ostmedial area with a whitish patch tinged with pink between 

 veins 7 and 3 and some pale points on costa ; subterminal line 

 formed of slight grey marks defined on each side by black scales 

 from below apex to above inner margin ; a fine white line at base 

 of cilia. Hind wing fuscous ; the underside whitish irrorated with 

 fuscous, a black discoidal spot, and diffused curved postmedial and 

 subterminal lines. 



Hah. Bk. E. Africa, Kikuyu, Uoromo (Craivshay), 1 $ type. 

 Exj). 34 millim. 



3015, Euplexia phimbeola. (Plate CXIY. fig. 4.) 



Eiqilexia plumheola, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 217 (1894). 



(J . Head and thorax deep blue-grey, the hairs slightly tipped 

 with whitish; palpi blackish, antennae ringed with white at base; 

 tibice and tarsi ringed with whitish ; abdomen fuscous black mixed 

 with some white, tho base whitish. Fore wing deep blue-grey ; the 

 basal area with some ochreous striation except towards inner 

 margin ; antemedial line angled outwards and whitish below costa, 

 then represented by three slightly waved ochreous lines and obsolete 

 below vein 1 ; elaviform represented by a white point at extremity; 

 orbicular quadrate, paler blue-grey defined by slight whitish bars at 

 sides and connected with a spot below cell ; reniform narrow with 

 pale rufous centre and white annulus, some black in lower part ; 

 postmedial line double and whitish towards costa, then formed by 

 three slightly waved ochreous lines, excurved from costa to vein 4, 

 then bent inwards to near lower angle of cell and oblique to inner 

 margin, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line 

 only defined by an olive-yellow band on its inner side from below 

 costa to inner margin, dentate at veins 4, 3, 2, some white suffusion 

 beyond it towards apex and some black on its outer edge below 

 costa intersected by slight olive streaks on veins 7, 6; a slight olive 



