240 NocTum.E. 



dorsal crests rufous, the ventral surface black-brown. Fore wing 

 red-brown mixed with greyish ochreous ; subbasal Hue black, 

 waved, from costa to submedian fold where there is some black 

 irroration beyond it; a slight black mark on inner margin before 

 the antemedial line, Avhich is indistinctly double, oblique, waved ; 

 claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular blue-black with a 

 slight whitish mark in upper part, defined by ochreous and black at 

 sides only, oblique elliptical and connected with a spot below the 

 cell ; reniform large, ochreous white defined by black on inner side 

 only and with a little brown in lower extremity ; an indistinct 

 curved medial line ; postmedial line strongly bent outwards below 

 costa, then dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line ochreous white defined 

 on outer side by some black scales and dentate to term en at 

 veins 7, 6, 4, 3, 2, the area beyond it blue-black ; a slight ter- 

 minal black line ; cilia red-brown mixed with fuscous. Hind wing 

 ochreous white, the costal area tinged with red-brown ; a small 

 dark spot at extremity of vein 2 ; cilia tipped with brown on apical 

 half; the underside with the costal area thickly irrorated with red- 

 brown, a slight discoidal lunule and traces of a curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Be. E. Africa, Kikiiyn, Nairobi plains (CrawsJiay), 1 5 

 type; Mole E. (Ford), 1 $ . Exj). 36 millim. 



3023. Euplexia lucipara. 



Noctua lucipara, Linn. Syst. Nat. ecT. x. p. 518 (1758) ; Esp. Sebmett. iv. 

 pi. 174. ff. 1-4 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett, Noct. f. 55 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. 

 p. 348, pi. 94. f. 5 ; Frr. Neue Beitr.f. 82 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. 

 iii. p. 3 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 185 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 171. 



Head and thorax purplish fuscous mixed with a few whitish 

 scales ; pectus dark brown and grey, the tarsi with ochreous rings ; 



Fig. Zb. — Euplexia lucipara, (^. \. 



abdomen dark brown mixed with grey. Fore wing red-brown 

 suffused with purplish fuscous ; subbasal line represented by double 

 black stria3 from costa and cell filled in with purplish and with 

 a black slriga beyond them in cell ; antemedial line indistinctly 

 double filled in with purplish, angled outwards below costa, then 

 oblique sinuous ; claviform moderate, defined by black ; orbicular 

 I)urplish fuscous, with slight greyish annulus defined by black 



