o56 NOCTUlDiE. 



3173. Microplexia aurantiaca. 



Erastria aurantiaca, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 341, f. 192 (1891). 



c? . Head and thorax clothed with orange-red and white scales 

 mixed ; tarsi golden brown ringed with white ; abdomen white 

 mixed with some golden brown. Pore wing white mostly suffused 

 with orange-red and dark red-brown, the medial area black-brown 

 from subcostal nervure to submedian fold ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by a dark brown point below costa and two below cell ; 

 antemedial line diffused, white with some orange-red before it at 

 middle, waved, obliquely curved ; orbicular represented by a small 

 white spot, the reniform by a small white lunule ; postmedial line 

 white defined by orange-red on outer side, bent outwards below 

 costa, then minutely dentate, slightly angled inwards at discal fold 

 and incurved below vein 4, the costa beyond it dark brown with 

 some small white spots on it ; subterminal line white defined by 

 dark red-brown on inner side, oblique towards costa, then minutely 

 dentate, excurved at middle and angled inwards in discal and 

 submedian folds, some dark red-brown beyond it and orange-red at 

 apex ; a terminal series of dark points defined by small white 

 lunules on inner side ; cilia white intersected with arauge and with 

 orange line through them, wholly dark brown at apex. Hind wing 

 whitish tinged with pale purplish brown ; cilia white tinged with 

 brown at base ; the underside white, the costal area irrorated 

 with deep red except at base, a small red discoidal spot, minutely 

 waved postmedial line and diffused subterminal line. 



Hab. Mabagascak, Betsileo (Cotvan), 4 d • Exj). 24 millim. 



3174. Microplexia muscosa. 



Erastria muscosa, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 338, f. 241 (1891). 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous mixed with red-brown, 

 the large genital tufts pale yellow. Pore wing ochreous suffused 

 with red-brown and with dark brown to the postmedial line ; 

 subbasal line whitish, from costa to submedian fold, with some 

 rough pale yellow-green scales before it ; antemedial line whitisli, 

 oblique, waved, with a patch of rough pale yellow-green scales 

 beyond it from costa to below the cell ; orbicular and reniform 

 small, defined by black, the former round with rough greenish 

 scales in centre, the latter with red-brown centre and some 

 greenish scales on edges ; some pale marks on medial part of costa ; 

 postmedial line whitish, very strongly bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved and again excurved in submedian 

 interspace ; the postmedial costal area dark browJi with some 

 whitish points on costa ; subterminal line absent ; a terminal series 

 of dark points and stria3 ; cilia yellow tinged with rufous and with 

 a few dark scales. Hind wing yellowish, the basal half and costal 

 area tinged with rufous, the rest of wing overlaid with rough 



