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NOCTUIDiE. 



1737. Euplexia calamistrata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 124, pi. 4, no-. 23; 

 C. $ S. no. 1950. 



3 . Head and thorax white, with a few brown and black scales ; 

 abdomen pale fuscous brown ; dorsal tufts tipped with black. 

 Fore wing pale olive ; traces of a double subbasal line, with black 

 patches beyond it below median nervure ; the antemedial line 

 white and diffused ; the orbicular, reniform, and claviform white 

 with black outline ; the postmedial line indistinct, excurved beyond 

 cell, and white towards inner margin ; an indistinct white sub- 

 marginal line with black suffusion on it. Hind wing pale fuscous ; 

 underside with cell-spot and postmedial line; a marginal pale 

 band to both wings. 



Hah. Sikhim . Exp. 36 millim. 



1738. Euplexia aurantiaca, n. sp. 



Differs from auroviridis in the head, thorax, and fore wing 

 being golden-brown instead of green ; thp last with the silvery- 

 white lines more prominent ; two antemedial lines, the first dentate, 

 the second waved ; the postmedial line more crenulate, the suffused 

 areas deeper golden-brown instead of black. 



Hah. Sikhim 8000 feet (Moller). Exp. 34 millim. Type in 

 coll. Elwes. 



1739. Euplexia stellifera, Moore, Lep. Atk.^. 123 ; C. $ S. no. 1954. 



S . Head, thorax, and fore wing brownish ochreous, which 

 has probably been olive -green in the fresh state, irrorated with 

 black scales ; abdomen fuscous brown. Fore wing with the sub- 

 basal, antemedial, postmedial, and submarginal lines single and 

 consisting of disconnected white strigse ; a white line on the 

 discocellulars ; ill-defined antemedial, medial, postmedial, and 

 submarginal broken and diffused black bands ; a marginal series 

 of black lunules. Hind wing dark fuscous ; underside fuscous, 

 with indistinct postmedial line to both wings. 



Hah. Sikhim. Exp. 44 millim. 



1740. Euplexia lagenifera, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 114 ; C.fy S. no. 2094. 



cJ . Head, thorax, and abdomen bright chestnut; collar with 

 grey lines, and tegulse grey fringed with chestnut. Fore wing 

 pale pinkish chestnut ; a double subbasal Hue ; a slightly sinuous 

 antemedial double line filled in with ochreous ; a similar post- 

 medial line dentate below the costa, excurved round end of cell and 

 approaching the antemedial line towards inner margin, the area 

 between the two lines bright chestnut ; the orbicular a diffused 

 pinkish patch joined to the costa and to the lower part of reniform, 

 which has a dark centre ; a submarginal dentate indistinct line 



