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line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish tinged with fuscous, the 

 veins streaked with fuscous, the terminal area suffused with leaden 

 grey; a small discoidal spot; traces of a double sinuous postmedial 

 line filled in with whitish ; a minutelj^ dentate white subterminal 

 line except towards costa, with some black suffusion and striation on 

 its inner side with some ochreous beyond it at tornus ; cilia with a 

 slight olive line at base ; the underside with the costal and sub- 

 terminal areas black irrorated with white, a black discoidal spot, 

 the postmedial line defined by black on inner side. 



Hah. Sikhim (Pilcher), 1 (S • Exp. 42 millim. Type t in 

 Coll. Eothschild. 



3016. Euplexia saldanha. 



Euplexia saldanha, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 110. f. 6 (1874). 



5 . Head and thorax black with a few white scales; the antennae 

 slightly ringed with white, the metathoracic crest rufous ; tarsi 

 ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous, wbitish at base. Fore wing 

 purplish black irrorated with a few white scales ; subbasal line 

 formed by double black striae from costa and cell filled in with 

 brownish ; antemedial line double filled in with brownish and with 

 some brownish before it, obli()ue, slightly waved ; the medial area 

 blacker; claviform slightly defined by black ; orbicular fuscous with 

 slight brownish annulus defined by black except above, somewhat 

 elliptical and connected with a spot below the cell; renitorm oblique 

 oblong, whitish tinged with rufous and with slight white and brown 

 marks in upper and lower pai'ts ; extremity of median nervure and 

 base of veins 3, 4 streaked with white ; postmedial area pale 

 ochreous tinged with brown or whitish tinged with fuscoas, the 

 postmedial line very indistinct except below cell, sometimes strongly 

 defined on outer side by white scales, bent outwards below costa 

 and below vein 5 bent inwards to lower angle of cell, the costa 

 beyond it black with white points; subterminal line ochreous defined 

 on inner side by blackish except at costa, dentate from vein 4 to 

 inner margin, the area beyond it purplish black to vein 4, then 

 brown ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia black with a fine 

 pale line at base. Hind wing fuscous black, the interspaces of basal 

 half whitish; slight waved postmedial and subterminal lines with 

 small white lunules beyond them at veins 3, 2 ; cilia with fine 

 white line at base ; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal 

 areas broadly suffused with fuscous and irrorated with white, a 

 black discoidal lunule, shghtly sinuous postmedial line, and waved 

 whitish subterminal line except towards costa. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the postmedial area hardly paler than 

 the rest of wing. 



(S . Fore wing with the postmedial area pale purple-brown. 



Hub. T.\ik^?Nkh.i. {Cliohnley),2 J , 2 5 » Johannesburg; Natal, 

 Estcourt {Hutchinson), 1 2 ; Basittoland, Maseru (CrawsJmy), 

 1 2 ; Cape Colonv, Harding (Mrs. Blalcnivan), 1 $ , Knysna. 

 Exp. 36 millim. 



