238 NocTuiDJ?:. 



3019. Euplexia augens. 



Ewplcxia augens, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 110. f. 5 (1874). 



Head and thorax black-brown slightljr mixed with white, thd 

 metathoracic crest rufous ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen 

 fuscous mixed with grey, some whitish hair at base. Fore wing 

 red-brown mostly suffused with purplish fuscous and slightly 

 irrorated with white ; subbasal line represented by double black 

 strife from costa and cell filled in with rufous and with a black striga 

 beyond it in cell ; antemedial line indistinctly double filled in with 

 rufous and with some rufous before it at middle, oblique, slightly 

 waved ; claviform short and broad, defined by black ; orbicular 

 purplish fuscous defined by broAvn and black at sides only, rounded, 

 connected with a spot below cell; reniform ochreous white with 

 some rufous in lower part and brown and white in upper part, 

 defined by black on inner side and on outer by a rufous band, rather 

 oblique elliptical and slightly angled inwards on median nervure on 

 extremity of which there is a slight white streak ; postmedial line 

 double at costa, then hardly traceable except below vein 3, bent 

 outwards below costa and below vein 4 incurved to lower angle of 

 cell, then sinuous to inner margin, the costa beyond it brown with 

 white points ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, slightly waved, 

 defined on inner side by rufous and dark brown, the area beyond it 

 piirplish fuscous to vein 4, then rufous. Hind wing whitish, the 

 veins, inner and terminal areas suffused with brown ; postmedial 

 and subterminal dark marks on veins 4, 3, 2 with whitish lunules 

 beyond them; cilia brown with a fine pale line at base ; the under- 

 side irrorated with brown, a blackish discoidal spot and diffused 

 postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Hah. Teansvaal, Modderfontein {Cruger), 1 $ ; Cape Colony, 

 Knysna, Capetown (Trimen), 1 c? • E^i^. 34 millim. 



3020. Euplexia debilis. (Plate CXIV. fig. 6.) 



Euplexia dehilis, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) iv. p. 244 (1879). 



Euplexia habilis, Saalin. Lep. Madag. p. 313, pi. xiii. f. 243 (1891). 



c? . Head and thorax ochreous mixed with brown ; palpi brownish 

 at sides ; antennae slightly ringed with white ; tarsi dark brown 

 ringed with white ; abdomen pale brownish ochreous. Fore wing 

 ochreous white suffused with purplish brown ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by double dark striae from costa and cell ; antemedial line 

 defined by whitish on inner side, angled outwards below costa, then 

 oblique and strongly retracted to inner margin ; claviform small, 

 slightly defined by black ; orbicular grey defined by black at sides 

 only, rather oblique quadrate, reniform defined by blackish on inner 

 side only, forming part of a large ochreous-white patch extending 

 from costa to vein 3 and to apex and below vein 6 to the subter- 

 minal line ; postmedial line indistinct, obsolescent on costal half, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique 

 and produced to slight dark streaks on the veins ; subterminal line 



