442 NOCTUIDH. 
6790. Risoba sticticraspis, n. sp. (Plate CLXXXVI. fig. 7.) 
@. Head and thorax white mixed with brown; frons with black 
bar; pectus and legs white tinged with brown, the fore legs 
blackish with the tarsi ringed with white; abdomen white tinged 
with brown, the dorsal crests black. Fore wing grey suffused with 
red-brown, a patch of white suffusion from costa beyond middle to 
beyond lower angle of cell, the veins with slight blackish streaks; a 
white patch from base of costa to inner margin before middle, its 
outer edge defined by a black line, and with white fascia from it on 
inner margin to just beyond the postmedial line; an antemedial 
black striga at inner margin; a black point in middle of ceil, the 
reniform slightly defined by blackish on inner side only ; a medial 
black striga at inner margin; postmedial line indistinct, bent out- 
wards below costa, minutely dentate below vein 6, incurved below 
vein 4 and with black striga at inner margin; subterminal line 
strong, black, incurved, with its outer edge minutely dentate and 
defined by white from costa to vein 6, then very indistinct, 
minutely dentate and angled inwards in submedian fold; an oblique 
black shade from apex and a terminal series of black points; cilia 
chequered whitish and black on apical half, brownish towards 
tornus. Hind wing white faintly tinged with brown, the terminal 
area suffused with brown; cilia white tinged with brown; the 
underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. 
Hab. Br, HE. Arrica, Taveta (Rogers), 3 Q type. Exp. 26 
miullim. 
Genus MACROBARASA, nov. 
Type, M. xantholopha. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 
of head and broadly scaled in front, the 3rd moderate, porrect ; frons smooth, 
with tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round; antennz of male with fascicles of 
long cilia, the basal joint and vertex of head between antennz with tufts of 
hair ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the prothorax without crest, 
the metathorax with spreading crest; fore tibiz fringed on both sides with 
long hair, the mid and hind tibiz moderately fringed, the fore and mid tarsi 
with slight tufts of hair on the joints; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only 
and with lateral tufts of hair on basal segments. Fore wing with the costa 
nearly straight, the apex rectangular, the termen strongly excurved, crenulate ; 
veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anas- 
tomosing with 8 to form a long areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 3 
from before angle of cell; 5 from above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 
anastomosing with the ceil near base only. 
A, Fore wing with oblique dark band beyond the antemedial 
line tromicellito innerimar pins cc-be--. scceeeso se een saseee wvantholopha. 
B. Fore wing without oblique dark band beyond the ante- 
miGUi Linon. csets eae OE cee Sa xcanthosticta. 
