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EUPLEXIA. By W. Warren. 
moneici. 
smaragdi- 
fera. 
fuscipennis. 
smarag- 
distis. 
esmeralda. 
mniochlora. 
delineata. 
laceous scaling; hindwing pure white; the terminal line from apex to vein 2 thick, brown; the veins to¬ 
wards termen brown; a faint outer line and submarginal shade at apex; fringe white, lined with brown 
as far as vein 2. Angabunga River, New Guinea. 
E. moneta Warr. (16 k). Resembles argyrospila, but slightly larger, the ground colour redder 
brown, the violaceous scales stronger, and all the white markings, except the costal spots, shading into 
golden green; an interrupted subcostal streak of golden green; the outer line more distinctly dentate 
lunulate and followed by a line of golden lunules, with the three spots smaller than in argyrospila ; sub¬ 
terminal line waved, formed of small golden green spots; the stigmata all a little smaller; a row of 
deep brown terminal lunules; fringe brown with pale lilac mottling; hindwing dirty whitish suffused with 
brown, deeper at apex and along termen; the cellspot, veins, and outer line darker; fringe brownish, 
mottled with pale grey. Angabunga River, British New Guinea. 
E. smaragdifera nom. nov. (= smaragdina Beth.-Baker nee Neum.). (16 k). Forewing deep olive 
fuscous, tlie lines and veins bright emerald green and white; the subbasal line forming two acute angles, 
one at costa, the other at median vein with their bases dark; inner line pale green and white, double, 
the arms above subcostal and below median vein separated by dark ground colour; incurved at first from costa, 
then outcurved, sharply angled outwards on submedian fold and again below vein 1, acutely angled inwards 
on vein 1; above it a curved green line runs along submedian fold from subbasal line to the angle of 
inner line on the fold; orbicular stigma dark, edged with whitish and pale green, oblique and elongate; 
median vein finely pale green; reniform with broad white lateral edges, the centre pale green, narrowly 
edged with dark; touching the inner edge is a pale green angled line; outer line double, pale green and 
white, starting from a white spot above reniform, bent outwards below costa and sharply angled on vein 8, 
then oblique inwards and straight, but faintly convex outwards, to vein 3, the inner green arm less 
sharply angled, and separated from the outer arm by black lines, the inner arm swollen and inbent 
to touch orbicular, then again outwardly oblique and diffuse to inner margin, edged inwardly by a white 
black-edged line, and outwardly separated by a black line from the white outer arm; beyond outer line 
the veins are traced by acutely sagittate pale green marks with their bases finely dark, alternating with 
dark wedge shaped marks from termen; an apical grey green streak; a row of black terminal lunules 
edged inwardly with white; fringe grey green; hindwing pale olive brown with a yellow tinge; a dark 
pale-edged outer line; fringe whitish; in 4 examples, from (Etakwa River, the oblique outer line from vein 8 
to 3 is not outwardly convex but straight and oblique, and the hindwing is dark slaty fuscous, — ab 
fuscipennis ah. nov. (16 k). The type from Mt. Kebea, British New Guinea; also from Booboomie, Aroa 
River; Biagi, Mambare River; and the (Etakwa and Upper Setekwa Rivers, Snow Mts., Dutch New Guinea. 
E. smaragdistis Hmps. (161). Differs from the New Guinea smaragdifera in the outer line being 
uniformly outcurved from vein 8 to 3, the arms separated by black lunules between the veins; all the 
markings clearer; the veins not pale; the subbasal line represented by two small curves of pale green 
filled up with dark; the orbicular stigma smaller and detached; the terminal green sagittate marks broad¬ 
er and edged with white. N. Queensland, Australia. 
E. esmeralda Warr. (16 1). Differs from smaragdifera in being smaller, the ground colour velvety 
black, and the markings all brilliant emerald green; the subbasal line formed of two thick angled lines; 
the lines all thicker; the outer line irregularly crenulate, inbent beyond cell; the terminal rays shorter 
and blunter, not reaching termen; the terminal lunules and fringe bright pale green without any black 
terminal line. Angabunga River, British New Guinea. 
E. mniochlora Meyr. (= viridacea Beth.-Baker) (161). Forewing deep greenish black, the ground 
colour showing only in basal area below costa, in the cell and space below, and in the terminal inter¬ 
spaces; the lines and shadings silvery greenish; costa with pairs of dark green spots with a whitish interval 
between them at origin of the lines; subbasal line fine, forming an angle above and below subcostal 
vein, running out along vein 1 and again angled outwards below it; inner line black, edged on both sides 
with pale green, angled outwards above and below vein 1, preceded by a pale green band; outer line 
pale green between two black lines, the inner thicker, lunulate between the veins, which before it are 
all streaked with pale, excurved from vein 8 to 2, where it is inangled; followed by a silvery green band 
ending externally in sagittate markings on the veins to termen; each vein at middle marked with black 
dashes, the intervals with inwards pointing wedge shaped marks; the apex with an oblique greenish 
streak; terminal lunules black preceded by silvery green ones; fringe pale olive green tipped with dark be¬ 
tween veins; claviform stigma defined by a curved silvery green streak; orbicular and reniform with 
silvery green annuli, open below, the former horse-shoe-shaped, the latter bell-shaped; hindwing pale brown¬ 
ish fuscous, with a darker patch in disc before the darker outer line. New Guinea. 
E. delineata spec. nov. Forewing with the median area between subcostal vein and vein 1, 
and the terminal area, deep olive fuscous; the lines and shading pale olive green; the costa, inner margin, 
