208 NOCTUID^. 



Bange. Nearctic and Palsearctic regions; throughout India, 

 Ceylon, and Burma ; Fiji. 



Eyes naked, with or without lashes ; proboscis fully formed ; 

 palpi upturned, the second joint not reaching vertex of head and 

 fringed with hair, the third prominent. Thorax with a slight 

 tuft of outspreading hair behind the collar and paired tufts on 

 metathorax. Abdomen with dorsal tufts on proximal segments ; 

 tibiae without spines. Fore wing with the cilia crenulate. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male quite simple. 



1711. Euplexia nuhilata, n. sp. 



3 . Head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with dark and grey- 

 brown scales. Fore wing reddish brown ; the basal area as far as 

 the antemedial line and the area between the medial and sub- 

 marginal lines clouded with glossy fuscous ; double subbasal, 

 antemedial, medial, and postmedial, and single submarginal lines, 

 the first three waved, the two latter lunulate ; orbicular round, 

 with dark centre; reniform a dark lunule. Hind wing whitish, 

 with traces of fuscous postmedial and submarginal lines ; apical 

 area suffused with fuscous ; underside with prominent cell-spot 

 and postmedial line. 



Rah. Sikhim, 6000 feet (Hotter). Exp. 46 millim. Type in 

 coll. Elwes. 



Sect. II. Antennas ciliated in male. 



A. Hind iving not yellow. 



1712. Euplexia in&istans, Guen. Noct. ii, p. 87 ; C. fy 8. no. 1937. 

 Hadena inextricans, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1729. 



Hadena distans, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 130 ; C. $ S. no. 1935. 



Pale reddish brown. Fore wing with indistinct, waved, double 

 subbasal, ante- and postmedial dark lines ; the orbicular and 

 reniform indistinct and often filled in with white ; a submarginal 

 series of lunules. Hind wing pale fuscous. Underside with the 

 basal half of both wings suffused with ferruginous in male. 



Hob. N.W. Himalayas, Bombay, and throughout S. India and 

 Ceylon. Exp. 34 millim. 



1713. Enplexia niveiplaga, Wlk, Cat. xi, p. 593 ; C. $ 8. no. 1940. 



Hadena confundens, Wlk. Cat. xi, p. 757. 



Agrotis quadrisigna, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 350; C. 8f 8. 



no. 1998. 

 Agrotis placida, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 117, pi. iv, fig. 19 ; C. fy 8. 



no. 1995. 

 Hadena siderifera, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 357 ; C 8? S. no. 1942. 

 Mamestra terranea, Butl. III. Het. vii, p. 53, pi. 127, fig. 10. 



