BARASA. 389 
rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from 
near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 
form a short and typically broad areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 
veins 3, 4 stalked ; 5 fully developed from well above angle; 6, 7 from upper 
angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. 
Secr. I. Fore wing of male with antemedial tuft of long hair from yein 1 on 
underside; vein 7 from end of areole which is short and broad. 
A. Foro wing with the postmedial line incurved below 
OITA os erottie suinsassiece Gita: sakmnistivesancnenicaccmeecwese serene acronyctoides. 
B. Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved and 
minutely dentate from below costa to inner margin. 
«. Fore wing with blackish patch at middle of costa ...... cymatistis. 
6, Fore wing without blackish patch at middle of costa... griseolu. 
6717. Barasa acronyctoides. 
Barasa acronyctoides, Wik. Journ, Linn. Soc., Zool. vi. p. 192 (1862) ; 
Hipsn. Moths Ind, ii. p. 377. 
Sarrothripa caradrinoides, Sneil. Tijd. y. Ent. xxii. p. 94, pl. 10. ff. 10, 
a-d (1879). 
Barasa cana, Hmpsn, Il. Het. BLM. ix. p. 107, pl. 163. f. 5 (1898). 
Head and thorax white slightly mixed with brown, the tegule 
with diffused brown medial band; palpi brown at sides ; antennx 
brown except towards base; legs mostly brown, the tarsi black- 
brown ringed with white; abdomen white suffused with brown 
Fig. 148.—Barasa acronyctoides, 3. }. 
towards extremity, the crests with brown mixed. Fore wing 
white tinged in parts with brown and irrorated with a few brown 
scales ; subbasal line represented by brown spots on costa and in 
cell; antemedial line brown with small spot at costa, then slight 
and sinuous, oblique to submedian fold, then inwardly oblique; 
tufts of brown scales at middle and upper angle of cell, the latter 
with spot above it on costa; a waved line from lower angle of cell 
to inner margin; postmedial line with spot at costa, angled 
outwards below costa, then sinuous, oblique to vein 5, then 
inwardly oblique, some small dark spots beyond it on costa; 
subterminal line dark, punctiform towards costa, then dentate, 
bent outwards below vein 7; a terminal series of black points 
and series of small dark spots at base of cilia. Hind wing white, 
the veins and terminal area tinged with brown. Underside of fore 
wing of male with the tuft of hair blackish at tips. 
