ORTHOSIA. — EADTNACRA. 
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ORTHOSIIDiE. 
Orthosia bicornis. (Plate CXLV. fig. 18.) 
Expanse 1 inch. 
Male. Violaceous grey. Fore wing with indistinct darker lineal markings ; four dark 
strigre from the costa, subbasal, antcmedial^ medial, and postmedial ; a black crescent in the 
cell ; three black spots on the discocellulars, and a black triangle beyond the cell ; sub- 
marginal and antccilial ochreous-grcy bands. Hing wing shining white ; veins, apex, and 
outer margin more or less smoky. Underside white ; the costal, apical, and outer areas 
of fore wing suffused with ochreous brown; a dark streak from costa two thirds from base; 
hind wing with the costa suffused with ochreous brown, most widely at apex ; a dark speck 
at upper end of cell. 
HADENID^. 
Euplexia fasciata. (Plate CXLV. fig. 20.) 
Expanse 1| inch. 
Female. Fore wing : ground-colour white; a purplish-grey band of irregular width along 
two thirds of costa, with two black streaks beyond it ; a narrow subbasal curved black band 
from costa to submedian ncrvure, where it expands into two large conjoined spots on eacli 
side of the nervure ; a pinkish-brown patch below the costa on each side of the subbasal 
band ; a wide irregular medial band, bent inwards along the submedian vein, the lower 
portion brownish black outlined with black, the upper portion purple-grey, bounded by two 
black tcetli outlined in white, from the costal band ; a purple-grey baud from the extremity 
of the costal band to thii'd median nervule ; two narrow parallel waved lines across the area 
beyond this band ; a submarginal denticulate band from first discoidal to first median nervule ; 
a large pale brown patch on the outer margin extending inside the denticulate baud ; the 
outer margin outside the band purple-grey from the brown patch to apex. Hind wing- 
smoky black ; antccilial and cilial black lunulate lines. Underside smoky black ; a large 
white spot at end of cell of each wing ; four white specks on costa of fore wing near apex ; 
cilia of hind wing white near the anal angle. Plead, collar, and antcnuie black; thorax and 
abdomen smoky white. 
Differs from E. albovittata and pectinata in having a dark band from tlie costa outside 
the medial band. 
Eadinacra mus. (Plate CXLV. fig. 9.) 
Expanse 1-1 iii^h. 
Male and female. Mouse-brown ; narrow indistinct antemedial, postmedial, and sub- 
marginal bands ; reniform brown and indistinct. Hind wing smoky brown ; an indistinct 
