Eublemma plagirosea Holloway sp. n.

♀ 15mm. This species combines some of the features of betarosea and carneola, such as the general form of the paler cream and rosy areas of carneola (though these are much paler) and the subapical brown patch of the forewing of betarosea, with a large and highly distinctive brown patch on the hindwing, taking almost one third of its area and being bounded distad by a pale submarginal of a similar course to that of carneola. There is a more definite, but still diffuse, medial fascia on all the wings, angled on the forewing and curved around the brown patch on the hindwing. The genitalia have the corpus bursae a rounded pyriform as illustrated, lacking signa as in amabilis.

Holotype ♀

Dutch West BORNEO: 85 miles above Pontianak, (Simons et Meligan (Sanggan)) ex Janson, April, 1909, BM noctuid slide 20917.

Geographical range

Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia (Barlow colln).

Habitat preference

The holotype was probably from a lowland, riverine locality if ‘above’ is interpreted as ‘upstream from’. A short series from Peninsular Malaysia was from cultivation and forest fragments on slopes at 600m.

Genitalia: