-,508 A. J. T. JANSE. 



Ic is very faint ; 4 and 5 come from a point, and tlie disco- 

 •cellular is very oblique. Sliape of fore Aving rather hroad 

 and short, costa arched, apex rounded, termen rather erect, 

 nearly straight, tornus somewhat acute. Hind wing rather 

 large, rounded ; costa, termen, inner margin, apex and 

 tornus well rounded. The process of fore tilnte thin and 

 slightly longer than the tibia. 



Subgenus Metisa WJk. 



Metisa Wlh., Ccat. iv, p. 957. 1855. Type, plana Wlk., from India; 



Hmpsn., ' Moths of India,' vol. i, p. 296. 

 Babula Moore, I.A.S.B., lix, pt 2, p. 262, 1890. 



The following- description of this subgenus is given by Sir 

 (t. F. Hampson in his ' Moths of India' : 



"Male. — Fore wing with veins Ih and Ic anastomosing; 

 vein 6 present. Hind wing with vein 6 present ; 8 coincident 

 with 7^ to the end of cell." 



Acanthopsyche (Metisa) alba sj). n. PI. XLIII, fig. 4. 



Male. — Antenna? fuscous-l)lack ; head and thorax covered 

 with long white hairs ; abdomen and legs thinK' covered 

 with white and fuscous hairs; wings transparent, Avithoutany 

 colour and without any scales or hairs " except along the 

 inner margin of the fore wings, wdiere there are some short 

 whitish hairs, and the same area of the hind wings on which 

 the hairs are longer and white ; cilia represented by some 

 short scales only, in both wings fuscous as far as ]b and 

 beyond this vein more whitish ; a fuscous edging along the 

 costa in both wings. 



Fore wing long and rather narrow ; costa nearly straight ; 

 apex and tornus rounded ; termen oblique, slightly rounded 

 between veins 8-6, and slightly hollowed out at veins 2-3 ; 



' According to the figure given, Hampson means here the upper 

 median and not vein 7 itself, which really begins from the njpper angle. 



^ It is quite possible that a specimen Just emerging has some loose 

 scales and more hairs on the wings, but the bred specimen I have seen 

 also shows no sign of them. 



