LASTPLEXIA. 485 



Sect. II. Antennaj of male ciliated. 



A. Fore wing with white or pale spots on outer edge of reni- 



form clicdyheata. 



E. Fore wing without white or pale spots on outer edge of 

 reiiiform. 



a. Fore wing red-brown suifused with purplish grey nuldla. 



b. Fore wing black-brown irrorated with silvery blue cyanea. 



3344. Lasiplexia clialybeata. 



Mamestra clialybeata, Wlk. xxxii. 6S5 (1865) ; Hmpsn. Moths lud. iv. 



p. 510. 

 Mamestra suffusa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 52, 



Head and thorax dark brown slightly mixed with greyish, the 

 head rather more rufous ; abdomen reddish brown more or less 

 suffused with fuscous, the anal tuft more rufous. Eore wiug 

 greyish brown suffused with black-brown and irrorated with 

 metallic blue scales especially on the veins and termcn, the veins 

 streaked with black ; subbasal line represented by double black 

 strise from costa and cell ; antemedial line double filled in with 

 greyish, angled outwards below costa, then oblique, waved; clavi- 

 form defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, 

 the former greyish with dark centre, round, the latter with its 

 inner part dark, its outer dull rufous ; a waved, dark raedii.1 lino 

 oblique from costa to below cell ; postmedial line double filled in 

 with greyish, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white points beyond it on 



Fig. 95. — Lamijlexia chalybcata, (5 



costa ; snbterminal line greyish strongly defined by diffused black 

 on inner side, slightly angled outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3 ; the 

 terminal area rather paler with series of small black lunules on 

 termen ; cilia with fine pale line at base. Hind wing yellowish 

 suffused with brown, the terminal area rather darker; cilia 

 ochreous with brown line through them ; the underside greyish 

 suffused with fuscous, a small discoidal spot and curved postmedial 

 line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with pure white spot on outer edge of reniform 

 with white points above and below it. 



Hab. Punjab, Kulu ; Sikhim Tibet, Yatung (Hohson), 1 $ ; 

 SiKHiM (llussdl, LidderdaU, Atlinson, Elwes, Mollcr), 7 d , 3 $ , 

 type and type suffma. Exp. 50-'JU millim. 



