. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. EUPLBXIA. 221 2998. Euplexia pectinata. Euplexia pectinata, "Warr. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 308; Hinpsn. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 14, pi. 143. f. 4 ; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 222. Head and thorax fuscous black mixed with a few white scales, the metathoracic crest tipped with white ; antennae with the basal joint white, the shaft ringed with white; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous mixed with white, the crests tipped with white. Fore wing fuscous black, the basal area with some rufous in and below cell; subba
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. EUPLBXIA. 221 2998. Euplexia pectinata. Euplexia pectinata, "Warr. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 308; Hinpsn. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 14, pi. 143. f. 4 ; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 222. Head and thorax fuscous black mixed with a few white scales, the metathoracic crest tipped with white ; antennae with the basal joint white, the shaft ringed with white; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous mixed with white, the crests tipped with white. Fore wing fuscous black, the basal area with some rufous in and below cell; subbasal line white defined on each side by black, angled outwards in cell, with dentate black mark beyond it above vein 1 and another below it above inner margin; a pure white antemedial band, nearly straight from costa to below cell, strongly angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin; medial. Fig. 34.—Euplexia pectinata, S- \- area black, fuscous at costa and red-brown at inner margin; orbicular rather V-shaped open above and below, fuscous defined by white lines at sides ; postmedial area white slightly tinged with grey and rufous, the reniform placed on it, white slightly defined by rufous and with some rufous in upper pait, narrow and angled inwards on median nervure to near orbicular ; postmedial line very indistinct, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved to lower edge of reniform and slightly bent outwards to inner margin, some white points and dark streaks beyond it on costa; subterminal line fine, white defined by black on inner side except towards costa and inner margin, crenulate between veins 4 and 1, some greyish beyond it towards tornus ; cilia brown and fuscous with slight grey line at base and white tips. Hind wing whitish, the costal and terminal areas broadly suffused with fuscous in male, in female wholly suti'used with fuscous ; a faint waved whitish postmedial line with blackish spot before it at vein 2; a slight whitish l
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