. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. Fig. 17.—, c?. \. eosta ; subterminal line white defined by rufous on inner side, waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; terminal area with purple marks irrorated with white at extremities of veins except towards apex, with black lunules between them ; cilia black with fine pale line at base and ochreous patches at and below apex. Hind wing ochreous tinged with fuscous; the underside with the costal area faintly tinged with red and irrorated with black, a discoidal lunule and f
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. Fig. 17.—, c?. \. eosta ; subterminal line white defined by rufous on inner side, waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; terminal area with purple marks irrorated with white at extremities of veins except towards apex, with black lunules between them ; cilia black with fine pale line at base and ochreous patches at and below apex. Hind wing ochreous tinged with fuscous; the underside with the costal area faintly tinged with red and irrorated with black, a discoidal lunule and faint curved postmedial line. Hah. Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur ((?. Young), 2 cJ, Dharmsala (Uodiiuj), 3 c?, 2 § type. ^,rp. 40-52 millim. Genus EUPLEXIDIA. Euphxidia, Hnipsn. Moths Iiid. iv. p. 461 (1890); Swinh. Type. N. H. (6) xix. p. 165 (1897) noctuiformis. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, tlie 2nd joint reaching vertex of liead and moderately .scaled, the 3i-d oblique; frons smootli ; eyes large, round ; antennaj of male minutely cihated ; head and thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and metathorax v^^ith divided crests, tibia; moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex rounded, the tennen slightly crenulate ; vein 3 from close to angle of cell; .5almost straight from just below middle of discoceUulars ; 0 from upper ; 9, 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 2856. Euplexidia noctuiformis. Enphxidia noctuiformis, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 461 (,1896); Swinh. A. H. (6)"xix. p. 165 (1897). (S. Head and thorax clothed with pale rufous and whitish scales; frons with blackish bars at sides and brown bar above ; tegulaj with diffused black band near tips; tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen
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