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whitish irrorated with black-brown, a black discoidal spot and 

 diffused postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Nairobi {R. Ford), 1 ? type. Exp. 

 36 millim. 



3026. Euplexia melanistis, n. sp. (Plate CXIV. fig. 9.) 



5 . Head and thorax black, the scales tipped with grey ; tarsi 

 ringed with white ; abdomen black-brown mixed with grey. Fore 

 wing black-brown tinged with purple and irrorated with white ; 

 subbasal line represented by double black striae from costa and cell 

 and one in cell ; antemedial line indistinctly double, oblique, slightly 

 waved ; claviform slightly defined by black ; orbicular rounded, 

 defined by black except above and connected with a spot below cell ; 

 reniform rather narrow and slightly produced at upper extremity, 

 slightly defined by white and with pale yellow marks at middle on 

 inner and outer sides ; postmedial line indistinct, double at costa, 

 bent outwards below costa, at vein 4 bent inwards and obliquely 

 waved to inner margin, some white points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line represented by a series of black marks in the inter- 

 spaces ; cilia with a pale punctiform line at base. Hind wing 

 black-brown, with a white postmedial point on vein 2 and subter- 

 minal points on veins 3, 2 ; cilia with a slight pale line at base 

 and whitish tips ; the underside irrorated with white, a blackish 

 discoidal lunule, curved postmedial line, and ditfused subterminal 

 line. 



Hab. Madras, Palni Hills, 7000' (Camjybell), 1 $ type. Exp. 

 30 millim. 



*3027. Euplexia aureopuncta. (Plate CXIV. fig. 10.) 



Euplexia aureopuoicta, South, ined. 



Head and thorax deep purplish brown ; antennae with the basal 

 half of shaft ringed with white ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen 

 greyish brown. Fore wing deep brown suffused with purple-grey, 

 the medial area without purple-grey tinge except on costal and 

 inner areas ; subbasal line represented by black-brown marks on 

 costa and below cell, the former with whitish striga on outer edge, 

 the latter crossed by a whitish striga ; antemedial line blackish 

 defined by whitish scales on inner edge and with black patches 

 beyond it on costa and in cell ; orbicular purplish grey defined by- 

 black and with whitish scales on inner and outer edges, round ; 

 reniform rather oblique oblong defined by black and yellowish 

 white at sides and with reddish-yellow centre, open above and 

 below ; a medial black patch on costa and traces of a line from cell 

 to inner margin ; postmedial line black defined by yellowish white 

 on outer side, expanding into a black patch on costa, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then waved, slightly incurved at discal fold and 

 strongly below vein 4, some whitish striae beyond il from costa ; a 



