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Differs from indistans in having no ferruginous suffusion on the 

 underside of the male. 



In the form confundens == quadrisigna there are no white specks 

 on the reniform, but usually a brick-red speck ; siderifera, ter- 

 ranea, and niveiplaga are darker red-brown, the first with white 

 specks on the outer edge of reniform, the second with a white spot 

 on it also, the third with the white spot only. 



Rah. N.W. Himalayas ; Sikhim ; Nilgiris. Exp. 36-52 millim. 



1714. Euplexia adjuncta, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 357 : C. Sf <S. 

 no. 1931. 



2 • Differs from niveiplaga in being greyer. Tore wing with a 

 waved black streak from the base below median nervure ; the 

 antemedial line more obliquely waved, the postmedial more 

 excurved, a black streak between them through the claviform ; 

 the orbicular and reniform with grey and black outlines ; the sub- 

 marginal lunules more dentate. 



Hal. Dalhousie. Exp. 52 millim. 



1715. Euplexia flavistigma, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 50 ; C. $ S 



no. 2053. 

 Apamea obliquiorbis, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 109 ; C. Sf S. no. 2058. 

 Hadena constellata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 130, pi. 4, fig. 21 ; C.fy S. 



no. 1934 



Differs from niveiplaga in the head, thorax, and abdomen being 

 pale brown ; the basal half of the fore wing very dark red-brown, 

 the outer half pale red-brown ; orbicular brick-red ; reniform 

 ochreous, without white specks, and with some brick-red suffusion 

 between it and the postmedial line, which is incurved to lower 

 angle of cell ; the submarginal line pale and irregularly dentate. 

 Hind wing with the cilia ochreous. 



The form constellata has one white spot on the antemedial line 

 of the fore wing, a white blotch on the reniform surrounded by a 

 few specks, and a series of white specks on the postmedial line ; 

 other specimens have only the white blotch on the reniform. 



Bab. Sikhim. Exp. 40-52 millim. 



1716. Euplexia opposita, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 667 ; Hmpsn. Ill Het. 

 ix, pi. 162, fig. 12 ; C.Sf S. no. 2078. 



Differs from niveiplaga in being very dark red-brown or black- 

 brown. Eore wing with the orbicular and reniform stigmata large, 

 the latter with an ochreous or brick-red lnnule on it ; a series of 

 submarginal black dashes with ochreous specks on them ; a mar- 

 ginal series of black and ochreous specks. Hind wing whitish, 

 suffused with fuscous brown towards outer margin. 



Hab. Aden ; Simla ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon. Exp. 40 millim. 



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