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3017. Euplexia alljoiiota. 



Euplexia alhonota, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B.M. is p. 92, pi. 161. f. 14 (1893). 

 Eiiplexia albiplaga, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 213 (1894). 



5 . Head and thorax dart brown mixed with pale brown ; tarsi 

 ringed with white ; abdomen dark brown with a few whitish scales, 

 whitish at base. Fore wing purplish ; the basal area marked with 

 grey and black ; subbasal line represented by double black strife 

 from costa and cell filled in with grey ; antemedial line indistinctly 

 double filled in with grey, oblique, angled outwards below costa and 

 excurved above inner margin; medial area black except towards 

 costa ; claviform slightly defined by black ; orbicular purplish 

 slightly defined by Avhite at sides and extending to the claviform ; 

 reniform white tinged with brown above, rather narrow, oblique, 

 the area beyond it olive to the oblique grey postmedial band; post- 

 medial line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then very minutely 

 waved, oblique below vein 4, the costa beyond it black with white 

 points ; subterminal line grey defined on inner side by black and 

 slightly on outer side except at costa, slightly excurved below costa 

 and waved below vein 4 ; a terminal series of small triangular 

 black spots ; cilia blackish with a series of white points at base. 

 Hind wing black-brown with postmedial and subterminal white 

 marks on vein 2 ; cilia white tinged with ochreous at base and with 

 fuscous tips at apex and middle ; the underside with some whitish 

 on termen towards tornus. 



Hah. Ceylon, Hewalatta {Green), 1 $ type. Exp. 40 millim. 



3018. Euplexia poliochroa, n. sp. (Plate CXIV. fig. 5.) 



2 . Head and thorax grey mixed with reddish brown ; tegulse 

 with ochreous patches; tarsi blackish with whitish rings; abdomen 

 grey mixed with brown. Fore wing violaceous grey tinged with 

 brown, the medial area suff'used with brown except towards costa ; 

 subbasal line double, black, angled outwards on median nervure, from 

 costa to vein 1, and with slight streak beyond it in submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line indistinctly treble, curved and somewhat waved ; 

 claviform minute, defined by black ; orbicular grey defined by black 

 at sides only, oblique elliptical ; reniform grey with some whitish 

 in centre and whitish annulus defined by black on inner side only ; 

 postmedial line double at costa, bent outwards below costa, then 

 treble, oblique below vein 4 and angled outwards at vein 2 ; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, greyish slightly defined on each side by 

 fuscous brown and very minutely dentate ; a terminal series of slight 

 dark lunules ; cilia with a fine white line at base. Hind wing grey 

 suff'used with brown ; traces of a minutely waved dark postmedial 

 line defined by whitish on outer side; a fine white line at base of 

 cilia ; the underside whitish tinged and irrorated with brown, a 

 black discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial line, and traces of sub- 

 terminal line. 



Hah. Madeas, Nilgiris (Cardeiv), 1 $ type, Exp. 34 millim. 



