484 NOCTUlDiE. 



some rouo-h hair and one crest at base. Fore wing with the apex rounrlerl, the 

 terraen evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 

 cell; 6 froni ujjper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areole : 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obso- 

 lescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antenna: of male bipectinate with rather short branches, the apex 

 serrate. 



3343. Lasiplexia cuprina. 



Apamea cuprina, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 345, pi. 38. f. 2 ; Hmpsu. 



Moths Tnd. ii. p. 202. 

 Eurois clicdyheata, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 230 (nee Wlk.). 



Head and thorax deep red-brown ; palpi blackish ; frons with 

 blackish lateral bars : tegulse blackish at tips ; abdomen fuscous 

 brown with a yellowish tinge, the anal tuft more rufous. Fore 

 wing deep red-brown suffused with fuscous, the veins with blackish 

 streaks ; subbasal line represented by slight double dark strife from 

 costa ; antemedial line indistinctly double, oblique, incurved in ceil 

 and angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform small, defined by brown ; 

 orbicular small, defined by brown, oblique elliptical ; reniform 

 defined by brown and with curved brown line in centre, its inner 



Fig. 94. — Lasiplexia cuprina, S . \. 



part brown, its outer rufous ; an indistinct medial line oblique from 

 costa to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique and minutely 

 waved ; postmedial line double, brown, its inner part distinct, bent 

 outwards below costa, then dentate, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, 

 some slight whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 rufous defined on inner side by dark brown forming somewhat 

 dentate marks at middle, slightly excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle and angled inwards in submedian fold ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules ; cilia dark brown with a blackish line near 

 base. Hind wing yellowish suffused with brown and with traces 

 of a diffused subterminal band ; cilia yellowish with a dark line 

 near base ; the underside with slight discoidal lunule and bisinuate 

 postmedial line.' 



Hub. ISiKUiM {Elives), 2 S . Z&p. 32 niillim. 



