246 NOCTUID^. 



with grej', some pale hair at base. Fore wing dark brown suffused 

 with silvery purple, the inner margin with slight red streak ; sub- 

 basal line indistinct, double, waved, from costa to submedian fold, 

 some reddish and a black point beyond it in cell and a faint reddish 

 streak in submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinctly double, 

 oblique, irregularly dentate ; claviform small, defined by black ; 

 orbicular with slight reddish annulus defined by black, oblique 

 elliptical ; reniform incompletely defined by black with reddish bar 

 on inner side and yellowish white spot with points above and 

 below it on outer edge, connected with orbicular on median nervure 

 by a fascia ; an indistinct waved medial line, oblique from costa to 

 below cell ; postmedial line indistinctly double, bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely dentate, oblique below vein 4, with 

 reddish streaks beyond it in the interspaces except towards costa, 

 the streak above vein 5 extending to reniform, some pale points on 

 costa ; subterminal line represented by slight reddish spots defined 

 on inner side by blackish spots except towards costa and inner 

 margin, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and incurved below 

 vein 3, with slight black streaks beyond it in the interspaces to the 

 terminal black lunules. Hind wing pale yellowish brown, the 

 terminal area suffused with fuscous ; an indistinct curved post- 

 medial line ; cilia dark brown with a fine ochreous line at base ; 

 the underside yellowish, the costal and terminal areas sul5;used 

 with brown and irrorated with whitish, a slight discoidal lunule. 



Hah. Punjab, Sabathu {Harford), 5 c? , 1 ? , type. Exp. 50- 

 52 millim. 



3032. Euplexia erythriris, n. sp. (Plate CXIV. fig. 15.) 



(5 . Head and thorax black-brown, the scales slightly tipped 

 with grey ; legs irrorated with white, the tarsi slightly ringed with 

 white ; abdomen fuscous brown. Fore wing black-brown irrorated 

 with purple and grey, the medial area darker except towards costa, 

 tlie inner margin with red streak ; traces of a double waved sub- 

 basal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 double, oblique, waved ; claviform indistinctly defined by blackish ; 

 orbicular and reniform with red annuli defined by black, the former 

 oblique elliptical, the latter rather narrow and angled inwards on 

 median nervure below orbicular to the antemedial line ; a very 

 indistinct waved medial line oblique from costa to below cell; 

 postmedial line double, bent outwards below costa, then minutely 

 dentate, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some white points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line reddish defined on inner side by black- 

 brown patches in the interspaces, slightly angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and incurved below vein 3, with slight black streaks beyond 

 it in the interspaces to the terminal lunules ; cilia black-brown 

 with a slight pale line at base. Hind wing dark brown with 

 traces of a pale subterminal band except towards costa and inner 

 margin ; cilia with whitish line at base and whitish tips ; the 



