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CHANDATA; PLEXIPHLEPS; EUPLEXTA. By W. Warren. 
nigrostriata. 
partita. 
siellifera. 
smooth; abdomen of $ without tufts; an erect prothoracic tuft; two small tufts on basal segments of 
dorsum; forewing elongate, inner margin sinuate, excurved before middle; hindwing ample, rather thickly 
haired along the intervals below median vein. Type Platyprosopa nigrostriata Beth.-Baker. 
P. nigrostriata Beth.-Baker (16g,h). $ Forewing pale green and rufous or fawn colour; the margins 
green, the folds fawn colour; lines darker rufous, double; the inner waved, obscure; the outer obsoletely 
lunulate, except towards inner margin; subterminal paler green and rufous; fringe rufous, the tips with 
small black spots; orbicular stigma pale, hardly marked; reniform large, greenish white, partly defined 
below by black, preceded in cell by a black blotch obliquely joined to a black costal spot, and emitting 
a blackish streak to termen below vein 4; claviform long, obscure, marked by a black spot at extrem¬ 
ity; hindwing rufous luteous, darker terminally, the veins and cellspot brownish; in the $ the tints 
are deeper, the brown shading blackish, and the fawn colour becoming lilac and brown grey. Described 
from a single $ from Dinawa, British New Guinea; in the Tring Museum there are 4 ES from the 
Ninay Valley and 1 $ from the CEtakwa River. 
22. Genus: Ilia m! ala Moore. 
Tongue present; frons smooth; palpi obliquely upturned, the second segment thick, the third 
short and pointed; antennae of $ well-pectinated to %; thorax and abdomen slightly crested; the thorax 
somewhat quadrate, the abdomen comparatively slight ; forewing with rectangular apex, the termen evenly 
curved. Type C. partita Moore. 
C. partita Moore (16 li). Forewing bluish white; some black marks at base, followed by a black 
band before inner line, often interrupted above middle; inner line black, oblique and waved, expanded 
on costa into a black spot; stigmata white; claviform with a dark mark at end; orbicular and reni¬ 
form conjoined below, the cell black before and beyond reniform, which is large and confluent with 
a white spot on costa; outer line ontcurved above, followed by a triangular black costal patch and some 
dark scaling below; submarginal line pale, curved, bent inwards at vein 2, then vertical to inner margin, 
preceded there by a brown, and followed by a black spot; fringe white chequered with black; hindwing 
blackish, the fringe chequered white and black. N. India, Sikkim. 
23. Genus: lMexi|>liic‘ps gen. nov. 
Distinguished from Euplexia by the neuration of the hindwing of <$\ in this the cell is shortened, 
especially above, the discocellular obliquely curved and thickened; veins 6, 7 stalked, their stalk upcurved 
and thickened; veins 3, 4 from lower end of cell, and 2 from shortly before it; the femora and tibiae 
more thickly fringed with hair. Type P. stellifera Moore. 
P. stellifera Moore (16 h). Forewing deep green sprinkled with bluish scales; the lines interrup¬ 
tedly white; the shading blackish green; costa marked at the rise of subbasal, inner, and outer lines by 
double black oblique spots with a white dash between them; subbasal line marked by two inwardly ob¬ 
lique fine white curves, followed by a broad blackish band; inner line marked by an oblique white curve 
from median to submedian fold; the outer by a bluish white crescent across submedian interval; this 
line is strongly lunulate dentate, incurved from vein 4, the teeth with bluish scales at extremity; sub¬ 
terminal line interrupted, preceded by a large dark costal blotch, and followed by a triangular one 
from vein 7 to 4, and another across submedian interval; orbicular and reniform stigmata deep green, 
the reniform outwardly white edged, and with a bright white dash at the lower outer angle; claviform 
large and black; fringe deep green, beyond a row of black terminal triangular marks; hindwing dark 
brownish fuscous, the fringe tipped with white. Sikkim, Bhutan, and the Khasia Hills, Assam. 
24. Genus: I^uplcxia Stph. 
Tongue present; frons smooth; palpi upturned, the second segment long, hairy, the third short, 
porrect; thorax densely scaled, with strong erect crests; vertex with a ridge of scales; the abdomen 
strongly crested on dorsum and laterally tufted; forewing triangular with prominent apex; the termen 
slightly crenulate. Larva smooth, velvety; on various low plants, feeding up in spring and early summer; 
pupating in the ground. Type E. lucipara L. 
Sect. II. Antennae of bipectin ate. 
E. sinuata Moore (16 I). Forewing purplish black; a yellow brown spot at base of submedian fold, 
sinuata. 
