Praedora plagiata Rothschild & Jordan, 1903

Hindwing veins Rs and M₁ arising from a point, not stalked. Pilifer with bristles, but no scales. Antenna short, slender.Head upperside tufted. Occiput and thorax upperside blackish-brown; edge of pronotum and middle of mesonotum greyish white. Abdomen upperside tergites wood-brown, paler at edges, with vestiges of 3 rows of brown spots or interrupted bands, one row dorsal, the others lateral. Foretibia shorter than 1st tarsal segment, with 2 apical spines - one dorsal, long, curved, the other externo-lateral, shorter - and a few short spines concealed under rough scaling. Abdomen underside clayish-grey, without black patches. Forewing upperside grey with a faint pinkish tone; a large brownish-black discal patch present, narrowing posteriorly, extending from the base of vein CuA₁ to the discal part of the wing, widest at the costal margin, where it becomes paler in the middle, continued to the hind margin by 2 discal lines; 3 ill-defined, brown subbasal and antemedial lines present, the 2nd and 3rd more heavily marked at the costal margin; an indistinct discal line distal to the dark patch, buff-bordered distally; an even less distinct, zigzag postdiscal line; some double vein-dots indicating a submarginal line; and an obliquely longitudinal dash ending at the tip of vein Rs₄, where it is preceded by a small black angle-shaped mark; fringe chequered brown and white. Underside of both wings yellowish cinnamon brown, with 3 very indistinct parallel discal lines. Hindwing upperside greyish brown, palest at the base, without markings; fringe white with brown dots. 29 mm.

Female genitalia: Ostial plate sinuate, the edge produced into a broad rounded lobe on each side; subcarinate mesially; obliquely wrinkled proximally, the wrinkles occupying a triangular mesial space.