354 NOCTUID^. 



Genus MICROPLEXIA, nov. 



Type, 3f. elegans. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of frona and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes 

 large, round ; antenna! of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with 

 rough scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; build slender ; 

 tibias moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal series of crests, the 

 crest on 4th segment very large. Fore wing with the apes rounded, the 

 terraen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areola; 11 

 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the basal half white, the outer half of medial 



area with black band elegans. 



B. Fore wing with the basal half not white. 



a. Fore wing with the medial area white albopicta. 



b. Fore wing with the medial area not white. 

 a}. Head and tegulse not green. 



a2. Fore wing with orange-red suffusion before the ante- 

 medial and beyond the postmedial lines and at apex . aurantiaca. 

 ¥. Fore wing without orange-red suffusion. 



a3. Fore wing with the terminal area pale rufous muscosa. 



63. Fore wing with the terminal area concolorous. 

 a^. Fore wing red-brown suffused with purplish 

 fuscous and with a postmedial pale patch on 



costa ferrea. 



' b*. Fore wing with the ground-colour ochreous nephelea. 



fii. Head and tegulce green discreta. 



3171. Microplexia elegans. 



Erastria elegans, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 347, f. 242 (1891). 



S . Palpi, frons, and antennae black ; vertex of head white with 

 some rufous scales ; tegulse white at middle, black at sides ; patagia 

 blackish mixed with rufous and white ; thorax white with black 

 patch on metathorax ; pectus and legs black mixed with white ; 



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Fig. 56. — Microplexia elegans, (^ . |. 



the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen white, the dorsal crests 

 black, the anal tuft yellowish, the ventral surface mostly black. 

 Fore wing with the basal half white irrorated with a few reddish 

 and black scales, the costal area pale purplish brown with a black 

 and white point at costa ; subbasal line black, from costa to just 



