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EUPLEXIA. By W. Warren. 
fasciaia. 
distorta. 
nigro phon- 
bea. 
plumbeo- 
marginaia. 
plunibeola. 
fuscous with the basal area whiter, especially in the <$; a white marginal streak from vein 1 to 4, 
and a double white spot limited and crossed by black on the thickened vein 2; fringe black with white tips 
from vein 6 to 2, above 6 wholly black, below 2 wholly white. Sikkim; a common species. 
E. fasciata Hmps. (17 a). Forewing purplish fuscous, with some pinkish at base and below costa 
near base; a black spot above vein 1 before the inner white band, which is angled outwards on median 
nervure and above inner margin, and emits a white arm into basal patch above the black spot; orbicular 
stigma quadrate, fuscous, defined by white at sides only, the cell black on both sides of it; reniform white 
with slight fuscous spot in upper part, confluent below with the white outer area, the median nervure 
white between the stigmata; median area below cell black, becoming brown at inner margin; a pur¬ 
plish fuscous band beyond the reniform, the area beyond it white to the subterminal line, below vein 4 
bent inwards to lower edge of reniform; outer line very indistinct, formed of black scales, bent outwards 
below costa, then double, minutely waved, below vein 4 bent inwards to lower angle of cell, then oblique; 
subterminal line slight, white, defined internally by black between veins 7 and 2, waved, more strongly 
below vein 4; the terminal area purplish fuscous in apical half, pale brownish below; hind wing fuscous 
black, whiter towards base; a small outer white spot on vein 2 with black on each side of it, and a wedge 
shaped white patch on termen from above vein 2 to vein 1. The Nilgiri Hills, Madras. Described from 
a single $. Distinguished from albovittata by the dark band beyond the reniform. 
E. distorta Moore (17 b). Fore wing black and white; a white spot at base; a white subbasal 
band, waved to vein 1, and connected by a curved white mark with a white inner band, which runs ob¬ 
liquely from costa to'median vein, and is then incurve*!., emitting shout white streaks below median and on 
inner margin; orbicular stigma dark, defined by'some white scales along its edges; reniform white, oblong 
and oblique, angled ^inwards'' on median nervure; outer band white, irregular, confluent with outer edge 
of reniform, forked above inner margin, to beyond middle and to anal angle, and joined above by an 
oblique white streak from apex; termen narrowly white, swollen into triangular marks in the intervals 
below vein 4; fringe white; hindwing blackish, whitish in basal area; a white patch on vein 2 subterminally; 
fringe black at apex, white at anal angle, chequered black and white between. N. India, Sikkim. 
E. nigroplumbea Wan. (17 b). Forewing bone colour, suffused to a large extent with purple black; 
the median area below middle, the cell on each side of orbicular stigma, and a submarginal band deep velvety 
black brown, the paler spaces below middle flushed with brownish fleshcolour; median area projecting beak¬ 
like inwards in submedian interval; the pale band before it excurved at median and strongly below vein 1, 
its centre purplish; outer edge of median area oblique and straight from vein 8 to 4, then slightly inbent, 
and again oblique to below vein l, shortly bent outwards again along inner margin; followed by an oblique 
pale space, brown-tinged below middle, with two purplish parallel transverse streaks above and a broad 
diffuse purple shade below; a velvety black shade from below costa before apex to anal angle, above which 
it is diffusely widened and followed by a brown patch; fringe purplish, with pale dots at the vein ends; 
upper stigmata, like the costal streak, purplish black; the orbicular finely, the reniform more strongly 
outlined with ochreous, the latter with an ochreous streak across its middle; the orbicular reaching be¬ 
low median vein, their converse edges contiguous at lower end; hinclwing dull ochreous whitish, becoming 
dark smoky fuscous along termen; the veins dark terminally, vein 2 black and thick, marked by a sub¬ 
terminal pale spot and crossed by a terminal pale streak; the inner margin narrowly fuscous; fringe 
purple black with the tips white. Kina Balu, N. Borneo. Described from a ’single <$. 
E. plumbeomarginata Hmps. (17 b). Forewing cream white with slight blackish dusting; subbasal line 
a small black costal triangle and a dot below cell; before inner line are two black dots on costa and inner margin 
and one each in cell and on vein 1; inner line black, sinuous, oblique, coalescing with outer line on vein 1; 
median area with costa, cell, and area below it black to end of cell, beyond which there is a rufous tinge; 
outer line very obscure, double, marked by black scales, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and 
sinuous; subterminal line black, oblique to vein 7, indented beyond cell, angled outwards at veins 4, 3 
and inwards on 2, ending in tornus; terminal area leaden grey, with a pinkish apical patch and black 
at tornus; orbicular stigma cream white, subquadrate, confluent with a costal patch and semicircular mark 
below cell; reniform narrow, fuscous, inwardly defined by reddish ochreous, its lower end touching 
the mark below cell; hindwing blackish fuscous, paler basewards; fringe black at base, chequered black 
and white at tips. A small species from the N. Chin Hills, Burma. 
E. plumbeola Hmps. (17b). Forewing purple black; the orbicular and claviform stigmata the 
inner margin below them, and the terminal area leaden purple; lines olive yellow; the inner and outer 
treble; the basal area frosted with olive yellow; the cell and median area below deep black; reniform 
narrow, olive yellow, with ochreous white lateral edges; a sinuous olive yellow band from before apex pro¬ 
jecting outwards at vein 3, lunulate dentate; veins across outer line pale; fringe purple, with pale dots 
at base; hindwing smoky whitish; the cellspot and veins dark; the costal and terminal areas smoky blackish; 
