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above, subanal and anal tuft purplish cinereous-brown ; anal tuft uitli white streaks ; 



legs beneath ochrcous-white. 



Expanse -^to^ inch. 



Genus ACHARANA. 



Forewing rather long, narrow ; cell more than half the length ; first subcostal 

 emitted at nearly one-fourth before end of the cell, third bifid, fifth from end, curved up- 

 ward from the base and almost touching the third ; discocellular concave, radials from 

 near the ends ; two upper medians from the end of cell, lower at nearly one-fourth ; 

 submedian recurved : hindwing broad, exterior margin convex ; cell broad, one-third 

 the length ; two subcostals from end of cell, upper joined to the costal to one-third 

 its length ; discocellular concave, radial from lower end ; two upper medians from 

 end of cell, lower about one-third ; a straight submedian and two internal veins. 

 Body rather stout ; abdomen keeled above, anal tuft long, pointed ; labial palpi 

 porrect, projecting half beyond the head, squamous, rather broad, truncate at the 

 tip, pointed in front, third joint concealed ; maxillary palpi oblique, reaching tip of 

 the labial ; antenna in male setaceous, very minutely ciliated ; legs rather stout, 

 smooth ; middle femora in male tumid and fringed above with short scales ; spurs 

 very long. 



Tyi^e, A. Otreusalis. 



ACHAEAN A OTREUSALIS (Plate 180, Fig. 11). 

 Boiys Otreusalis, Walker, Cutal. Lep. Het. B. M. xviii. p. 639 (1859). 

 Botys triarialis, Walker, id. p. 639 (1859). 

 Botys Neloalis, Walker, id. p. 643 (1859). 

 Botys abstrasalis, Walker, id. p. 663 (1859). 

 Botys Pharaxalis, Walker, id. p. 725 (1859). 

 Botys imnmndalis, Walker, id. xxxiv. p. 1448 (1865). 

 Botys phiTopteralis, Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soe. Lond. (1884), p. 322 (nee Guenee). 



Purplish ochreous-brown. Wings iridescent : forewing with an indistinct pale- 

 bordered blackish outwardly-oblique undulated antemedial line, an inwardly-oblique 

 zigzag denticulated discal line, followed by a pale denticulated marginal fascia ; a 

 punctiform orbicular spot and a reniform mark, and a spot at base of the cell : hind- 

 wing with a pale-bordered blackish lunule at end of the cell, a zigzag discal denticu- 

 lated line, and a pale denticulated marginal fascia. Cilia cinereous- white, with a brown 

 inner line. Palpi above and forelegs dark brown, beneath white ; middle and hind- 

 legs pale ochreous. 



Expanse ^o to tit inch. 



ACHARANA PR.ETEBITALIS. 

 Botys PrcBteritaUs, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiv. p. 1405 (1865). 



Cinereous-brown. "Wings brown speckled : forewing with an obsolescent brown 



