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6791. Macrobarasa xantholopha. 
Blenina xantholopha, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 526 (1896). 
3. Head and thorax white mixed with red-brown; palpi with 
the 2nd joint black above; tegule with black line near base, 
dorsally edged with black and with black point at middle ; patagia 
with black point at middle ; metathorax with small tuft of pale 
yellow scales; mid tarsi black except at base; abdomen white 
mixed with fuscous brown, paier at base and extremity, the ventral 
surface ochreous. Fore wing whitish suffused in parts with red- 
brown, the base, disk and middle of terminal area paler, the veins 
with slight dark streaks; subbasal line slight, interrupted, waved, 
from costa to submedian fold where there is a minute tuft of yellow 
scales on it ; antemedial line black, with two slight dentitions below 
costa, then waved and with black band on its outer edge from cell 
Fig. 159.—Macrobarasa xantholopha, 3. }. 
to inner margin where it extends to the medial line; orbicular 
minute, round, defined by black and filled in with yellow ; reniform 
rather narrow, defined by black, its upper part filled in with rufous, 
its lower by pale yellow ; medial line black, slightly angled inwards 
below costa, then oblique to lower angle of cell, angled inwards to 
before origin of vein 2 and with three dentitions above inner margin; 
postmedial line double, the inner line black, the outer rufous, 
strongly bent outwards and produced to a slight point below costa, 
then excurved, dentate at veins 4, 3, then incurved and angled 
outwards at vein 1; subterminal line black with some white 
suffusion before and beyond it towards costa where it is minutely 
dentate, angled inwards at discal and submedian folds, and with black 
streaks beyond it on the veins; a fine waved dark terminal line. 
Hind wing whitish tinged with rufous, the veins brown, the 
terminal area fuscous black, broadly at costa, narrowing to tornus; 
cilia ochreous white with some fuscous mixed; the underside 
whitish, the terminal area suffused with fuscous, a black discoidal 
lunule and diffused curved postmedial line from costa to vein 2, 
Hab, Assam, Khasis (Badgley), 2 3 type. Eup. 38 millim. 
