486 



NOCTrnD^T:. 



*3345. Lasiplexia nubila. 



Apamca nuMla, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 346, pi. 38. f. 10; Ilmpsn. Mollis 

 Ind. ii. p. 185, &iv. p. 509. 



S . Head and thorax red-brown suffused with purplish grey ; 

 abdomen pale brown, the dorsal crests rufous. Fore wing red- 

 brown suffused with purplish grey ; a sinuous black streak below 

 base of cell ; antemedial line . double, curved, waved ; claviform 

 defined by black, kidney-shaped ; orbicular and reniform large, 

 indistinct, elliptical ; postmedial line double, bent outwards below 

 costa, then waved, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, a black 

 streak in submedian fold from it to the subterrainal line, which is 

 pale defined on each side by brown, dentate. Hind wing pale 

 brown ; the underside with indistinct discoidal spot. 



Eab. SiKHiJi, type t S in Coll. Staudinger. Exp. 40 millim. 



3346. Lasiplexia cyanea, n. sp, (Plate CXIX. fig. 32.) 



5 . Head and thorax very dark brown, the head rather more 

 rufous ; tarsi ringed with whitish ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore 

 wing very dark brown with a reddish tinge, irrorated with some 

 silvery blue scales especially on medial area and termen ; subbasal 

 line represented by a semicircular silvery blue mark below costa ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, dark, defined on inner side by silvery 

 blue, angled outwards below costa, incurved in cell, then excurved ; 

 claviform slightly defined by silvery blue at extremity ; orbicular 

 irrorated with silvery blue and defined by black, oblique elliptical; 

 reniform indistinct, slightly irrorated with blue, defined by black 

 and its centre also defined by black, a greyish lunule on its outer 

 edge ; traces of a curved dark medial line ; postmedial line indis- 

 tinct, dark, defined by silvery blue on outer side towards costa and 

 inner margin, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, 

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

 costa ; subterminal line silvery blue, excurved at vein 7, slightly 

 angled outwards at veins 4, 3 and inwards in submedian fold ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia dark brown at base, 

 yellowish brown at tips. Hind wing deep fuscous brown ; cilia 

 yellowish with a dark line through them ; the underside yellowish 

 tinged with bro-wn and broadly suffused with fuscous on costal and 

 terminal areas, a curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Assam, Khasis, 1 $ type. Exj). 46 millim. 



Genus TRIGONOPHORA. 



Type. 



TrigonofjJiora, Hiibn. Verz. p. 217 (1827) mciiculosa. 



Sokno-piera, Herr.-Sclififf. Eur. Sohmett. ii. p. 2'J9 (1845) virl i,-ii!iva. 



Brotolomia, Led. Noct. Eur. pp. 35-115 (1857) mrtiful.K^a. 



Mesolnrnia, Smith, Cat. Noct. JS'. Am. p. 171 (1893), nou descr... iris. 



I'robuois Cully duvuluped ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2iid joint reaching 



