222 NOCTUIDiE. 



Sect. IV. Antennae bipectinated in male, with very short 

 ... branches. 



175 / . Euplexia leamba, $wmA. A.M.N. H. (6) xii, p. 260. 



<$ . Head and thorax black-brown with a reddish tinge ; abdo- 

 men dark fuscous, reddish towards extremity. Fore wing golden 

 green suffused with black, except before antemedial line and on 

 marginal area ; a subbasal waved black line ; an oblique ante- 

 medial dentate line with a strong tooth near inner margin, where it 

 almost joins the lunulate postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform 

 dark and ill-defined ; the submarginal line prominent and lunulate ; 

 cilia black at emarginations. Hind wing pale fuscous, with indistinct 

 diffused dark postmedial and submarginal lines ; cilia black with 

 white points. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Khasis. Exp. 46 millim. Type in B. M. 



1758. Euplexia cyanelinea, n. sp. 



S • Differs from icamba in the head, thorax, and abdomen being 

 pnle red-brown. Fore wing with the green area less suffused; the 

 ante- and postmedial lines metallic blue-grey. Hind wing dark 

 fuscous ; cilia of both wings tipped with white. 



Hob. Sikhim, 10,000 feet {Elwes). Exp. 45 millim. Type in 

 coll. Elwes. . v 



Sect. v. (Chandata). Antennae bipectinated in male, 

 the branches long. 



1759. Euplexia pectinata, Warr. P. Z. 8. 1888, p. 308 ; Hmpsn. III. 



Het. viii, pi. 143, fig. 4. 

 Euplexia fasciata, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 77, pi. 145, fig. 20. 



Differs from albovittata (p. 217) in the palpi and metathoracic tuft 

 being but slightly white ; the abdomen dark at base ; fore wing with 

 a black spot detached from the basal area ; the medial dark band 

 hardly angled at outer edge ; the postmedial band replaced by a 

 rufous spot beyond the cell ; the dentitions on the lower part of 

 the marginal band prominent. Hind wing and underside black, 

 the former with the marks on vein 2, the latter with a white cell- 

 spot to each wing. 



In the form fasciata from the Nilgiris there is a prominent 

 dark postmedial band from the cost a to vein 5 instead of the 

 rufous spot. 



Bab. Dharmsala ; Nilgiris. Exp., tf 40, $ 42 millim. 



1760. Euplexia partita, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 114, pi. 4, fig. 16 ; C.8t S. 



no. 2093. 



c? . Head white, black below ; collar white, fringed with black ; 

 thorax black, the patagia with white patches ; abdomen fuscous 

 black. Eore wing bluish white ; two interrupted waved black 



