MICKOPLEXIA. 



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whitish scales ; the underside whitish irrorated and in parts tinged 

 with red-brown, a dark discoidal spot and diffused curved post- 

 medial line, 



Eab. Madagascak, Betsileo (Coiuan), 1 d" . Exp. 26 millim. 



3175. Microplexia ferrea, n. sp. (Plate CXVII. fig. 15.) 



$ . Palpi and frons red-brown ; vertex of head white ; anteniiEe 

 brown ; thorax red-brown mixed with some white especially on 

 vertex ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen red-brown mixed with 

 some whitish. Fore wing red-brown largely suffused with purplish 

 fuscous especially on medial and terminal areas, and irrorated with 

 a few white scales especially on basal half of medial area ; a 

 triangular yellowish-white patch tinged with rufous on costal area 

 beyond the postmedial line ; subbasal line represented by a white 

 striga from costa ; antemedial line white, incurved in submedian 

 interspace and excurved above inner margin, a yellowish patch 

 before it below the cell, a dark brown patch on inner area and a 

 green patch beyond it on inner margin ; orbicular minute, round, 

 with white centre defined by some black scales, a slight black 

 streak in discal fold from it to reniform, which is small, greenish 

 white, undefined ; postmedial line indistinctly double, filled in with 

 white and excurved from costa to vein 5, then oblique and with 

 series of minute black marks beyond it ; subterminal line absent ; 

 a terminal series of minute white points. Hind wing dark reddish 

 brown ; cilia ochreous white with some brown scales. Underside 

 of fore wing dark brown with large rufous patch on apical area 

 and some white points on costa ; hind wing white irrorated with 

 red-brown, the costal area except towards base and apical area 

 suffused with brown, a brown discoidal spot and rather diffused 

 postmedial line excui'ved to vein 2, then incurved. 



Bah. Madagascar, Betsileo (Coivan), 1 2 type. Exp. 20 millim. 



*3176. Microplexia nephelea. (Plate CXVII. fig. 16.) 



Naranga nephelea, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1899, p. 731. 



(5. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous; 

 pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish tinged with 

 brown. Fore wing greyish ochreous suffused and irrorated with 

 rufous ; subbasal line represented by a slight pale striga from 

 costa ; antemedial line indistinct, pale, slightly defined on each side 

 by rufous ; orbicular represented by a fuscous point, the reniform 

 by a somewhat larger spot with oblique rufous bar from costa to it ; 

 postmedial line double, rufous, bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some slight 

 pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line rufous, obliquely 

 curved from costa to term en below apex, then indistinct, minutely 

 waved ; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing ochreous 



