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1708. Bombycia leucocera, n. sp. 



2 . Brownish grey. Fore wing with short dark subbasal line ; 

 sinuous antemedial line interrupted by the ochreous clavifonn 

 streak; the orbicular and reniform white with black edges, the 

 former small, the latter narrow and angled inwards on median 

 nervure ; a slightly crenulate postmedial line, very much bent 

 outwards below costa ; a pale, nearly straight, submarginal line, with 

 a series of black marks on it. 



Hab. Sind Valley, Kashmir {Leech). Exp. 46 milliin. Type in 

 coll. Leech. 



1709. Bombycia meterythra, n. sp. 



c? . Head and thorax pale, suffused with pink ; abdomen 

 ochreous. Fore wing pale suffused with brown, rufous, and pink, 

 the medial area reddish ; an indistinct subbasal line ; a sinuous 

 oblique antemedial line ; a curved crenulate postmedial line and 

 indistinct dentate submarginal line with rufous suffusion inside it ; 

 the orbicular and reniform large, prominent, and black, with pink 

 centres. Hind wing bright red ; the cilia ochreous. 



Hab. Murree. Exp. 36 millim. Type in B. M. 



Sect. III. Antennae bipectinated, the branches long ; palpi 

 with the 3rd joint long and porrect. 



1710. Bombycia rubida, n. sp. 



3 . Antennae fulvous ; head, thorax, and abdomen greyish red. 

 Fore wing greyish red ; a large chestnut patch at end of cell 

 surrounding the indistinct reniform; some dark suffusion on 

 centre of inner margin ; an almost straight pale and chestnut 

 submarginal line. Hind wing reddish fuscous ; cilia of both 

 wings rufous. Underside with cell-spot and traces of a post- 

 medial line to both wings. 



Hab. Sikhim, 10,000 feet {Ehves). Exp. 47 millim. Type in 

 coll. Elwes. 



Genus EUPLEXIA. 



Euplexia, Steph. III. Brit. Ent, Haust. hi, p. 3 (1829). 

 Trachsea, Hilbn. Verz. p. 219 (1818), non descr. 

 Luperina, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 113 (1840). 

 Prospalta, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1114 (1857). 

 Triphsenopsis, Butl. A.M.N. H. (5) i, p. 163 (1878). 

 Chutapha, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 131 (1882). 

 Karana, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 106. 

 Chandata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 113. 

 Eurabila, Butl. 111. Het. vii, p. 39 (1889). 



Type, E. lucipara, Linn., from Europe. 



