. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 354 NOCTUID^. Genus MICROPLEXIA, nov. Type, 3f. elegans. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to middle of frona and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth; eyes large, round; antenna! of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with rough scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; build slender; tibias moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal series of crests, the crest on 4th segment very large. Fore wing with the apes rounded, the te
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 354 NOCTUID^. Genus MICROPLEXIA, nov. Type, 3f. elegans. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to middle of frona and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth; eyes large, round; antenna! of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with rough scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; build slender; tibias moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal series of crests, the crest on 4th segment very large. Fore wing with the apes rounded, the terraen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areola; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Fore wing with the basal half white, the outer half of medial area with black band elegans. B. Fore wing with the basal half not white. a. Fore wing with the medial area white albopicta. b. Fore wing with the medial area not white. a}. Head and tegulse not green. a2. Fore wing with orange-red suffusion before the ante- medial and beyond the postmedial lines and at apex. aurantiaca. ¥. Fore wing without orange-red suffusion. a3. Fore wing with the terminal area pale rufous muscosa. 63. Fore wing with the terminal area concolorous. a^. Fore wing red-brown suffused with purplish fuscous and with a postmedial pale patch on costa ferrea. ' b*. Fore wing with the ground-colour ochreous nephelea. fii. Head and tegulce green discreta. 3171. Microplexia elegans. Erastria elegans, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 347, f. 242 (1891). S . Palpi, frons, and antennae black ; vertex of head white with some rufous scales ; tegulse white at middle, black at sides ; patagia blackish mixed with rufous and white ; thorax white with black patch on metathorax; pectus and legs black mixed wit
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