POLYPHJiNIS. 673 



3568. Polyplijenis confecta. 



Tri-phcBna confecta, Wlk. xv. 1705 (1858) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 219. 



Agrotis hyblcea, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 108. f. 43 (1874). 



Eliochrcea curtipalpis, Butl. 111. Het. B. M . vii. p. 74, pi. 131. ff. 7, 8 (1889). 



Head and thorax olive-brown mixed with fuscous and grey ; palpi 

 whitish at base, black and white at tips ; patagia with some black 

 scales on upper edge ; pectus and legs white tinged Avith brown, the 

 fore tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen black with yellow 

 rings, some brown hairs at base, the crests black, the ventral surface 

 yellowish white irrorated with black towards extremity. Fore wing 

 olive-brown slightly irrorated with black ; subbasal line represented 

 by black stri^ from costa and cell ; antemedial line indistinctly 

 double, oblique, minutely waved ; claviform indicated by some black 

 scales on its edges ; orbicular slightly defined by black and with a 

 dark point in centre, round ; renitorm slightly defined by black on 

 inner side and below with a few black scales on outer edge and 

 lilack mark on lower edge of centre ; medial line represented by an 

 oblique black bar from costa to reniform and a slight oblique line 

 irom lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmediai line double, 

 bent outwards below costa, then waved, oblique to vein 4, then 

 incurved, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 



Fig. 175. — Poli/phanis confecta. ^ 



grey, defined on inner side by black spots below costa and at middle, 

 excurved at vein 7, excurved and waved at middle and angled 

 inwards in discal and submedian folds ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules ; cilia with a dark line through them. Hind wing 

 orange-yellow ; the base and a broad fascia in submedian interspace 

 to beyond middle black-brown, the latter almost conjoined to the 

 black terminal band which is very broad at apex, its. inner edge 

 incurved at discal fold, then strongly excurved and angled inwards 

 in submedian fold ; the termen narrowly and the cilia yellow inter- 

 rupted by a black patch between veins 4 and 2. Underside of fore 

 wing black- brown, the base of costa whitish, the basal half of cell 

 and inner area pale yellow, a pale yellow patch beyond the cell with 

 rather dentate outer edge extending to below vein 3 ; hind wmg 

 with the costal area irrorated with black, a diffused black patch 

 below end of cell, the terminal band as above. 



Ab, 1. Fore wing with more or less white irroration before and 

 beyond the postmediai line which is filled in with white. 



Ab. 2. curtipalpis. Fore wing with large white patch on reni- 

 form, the postmediai line often filled in with white. 



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