188 EUPLEXIA. By W. Warren. 



the orbicular round and the reniform large with yellowish green rings; beyond the claviform above the 

 submedian fold is a large diamond shaped white blotch, often continued across the bases of veins 2 and 3 

 and through cell beyond the orbicular as another white blotch; the subinarginal line, yellowish green, is 

 more tremulous than in atriplicis; hindwing dull white with broad blackish marginal border, the inner 

 lid in. margin also narrowly blackish; cellspot and veins dark; — ab. lucia Btlr. (43 g, h), has the outer line followed 

 by a thick dentate line, and the subterminal preceded opposite cell by whitish scaling, and the basal area 

 of hindwing more or less tinged with fuscous. The species, originally described from Ceylon, occurs all 

 through India, and extends to Kashmir, China, Corea, and Japan; in the last 3 localities, the form lucia Btlr. 

 is predominant and the typical form rare; whereas in India the form lucia does not occur. 



melanospila. T. melanospila Koll. (= kosakka Oberth.) (43 h). Differs from auriplena Walk, in having the large 



white blotch beyond the claviform stigma reduced to a small whitish, sometimes greenish yellow, triangular 

 mark, not continued upwards across the cell; the orbicular stigma is large, with round dark centre and 

 pale green ring: the hindwing has the pale basal portion more extensive, not so clearly separated from the 

 marginal border, which is not so dark. Found in Kashmir, Amurland, W. and Central China, also in 

 X. India. 



microspila. T. microspila Hmps. (43 h). Differs from melanospila in being paler, the purplish ground colour 



being thickly dusted with blue grey or whitish grey; the yellow green areas reduced, the upper stigmata 

 both smaller; the claviform is followed by only a small white spot; the outer line is acutely dentate on 

 the veins outwardly, and equally so inwardly between them, instead of forming shallow lunules; hindwing 

 with basal area pure white, the marginal border dark fuscous. This species also occurs in W. China, as 

 well as in X. India. 



tokiensis. T. tokiensis Btlr. (43 h, i). Forewing purple grey varied with pale and dark scales; a diffuse blotch 



at base of costa reaching to submedian fold, the two stigmata, and the course of the submarginal line 

 yellow green; the centre of orbicular and lower half of the reniform filled up with blackish; the claviform 

 black-outlined and partially greenish, without any white markings beyond it; hindwing dull greyish white 

 with veins and cellspot fuscous; marginal border smoky blackish beyond a thick outer line. Eecorded only 

 from Japan. 



sioliczkae. T. stoliczkae Fldr. (43 i). Forewing dull greyish lilac, varied with olive green, this tint being 



thickest in basal area, in the median area below subcostal vein, and along the submarginal line; inner and 

 outer lines black, conversely lunulate-dentate, and approaching each other in submedian interval; upper 

 stigmata lilac grey washed with pale green and with black outlines; terminal area beyond submarginal line 

 generally darker, the line, which is irregularly waved and dentate, being also preceded by darker clouds 



intensiva. below middle; hindwing purplish fuscous, rather paler towards base; in the ab. intensiva ab. nov. (43 k) 

 both the lilac grey ground colour and the green suffusion are much brighter and deeper. Taken in the 

 Scinde and Goorais Yallies, Kashmir; also occurring in N. India. 



31. Genus: Euplcxin Stph. 



Tongue present; frons smooth; palpi upturned, the second segment long, hairy, the third short, 

 porrect; thorax densely scaled, with strong erect crests; vertex with a ridge of scales; the abdomen strongly 

 crested on dorsum and laterally tufted; forewing triangular with prominent apex; the termen slightly 

 erenulate. Larva smooth, velvety; on various low plants, feeding up in spring and early summer; pupating 

 in the ground. Type Euplexia lucipara L. 



Sect. III. Antennae of <J with short sessile fascicles of cilia. 



lucipara. E. lucipara L. (43 i). Forewing rufous ochreous tinged with purplish and mixed with olive brown; 



median area, a triangular blotch on inner margin near base, and a narrow praesuh marginal cloud deep 

 olive; costa to beyond middle, the terminal area, and the orbicular stigma leaden purple; lines indistinct, 

 the outer and inner approximating on inner margin; claviform stigma olive, dark-edged; orbicular roundish, 

 oblique, with paler ring; reniform conspicuously whitish, containing a double brown lunule; submarginal 

 line pale, waved; veins towards termen dotted dark and pale; hindwing ochreous with dark cell mark and 

 veins, darker in terminal half where there is visible a dark pale-edged outer and submarginal line. Larva 

 velvety green with darker green oblique subdorsal stripes; tubercles pale; spiracular line yellowish white; 

 11"'- segment slightly swollen, with a pair of white dots; head green; on numerous low plants. Occurs 

 throughout Europe, in Algeria, in Western Asia, Siberia, China, and Japan, extending into N. America. Japanese 

 examples are somewhat larger, the ground colour darker, more suffused with purplish. 



