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outer area grey except at apex ; indistinct waved subbasal, ante- 

 medial, and postnieclial lines ; a black speck at end of cell. Hind 

 wing fuscous. 



Hob. Ceylon. Exp. 26 millim. 



Genus CHLUMETIA. 



Chlumetia, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1270 (1865). 

 Nachaba, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 113 (1863) (praocc.). 



Type, C. transversa, Wlk. 



Range. Sikhim ; Ganjam ; Ceylon. 



Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head and thickly 

 clothed with scales, the 3rd short ; antenna of male bipectinated ; 

 thorax smoothly scaled ; abdomen with dorsal tufts ; tibiae mode- 

 rately hairy. Fore wing with hardly a trace of raised buttons of 

 scales ; veins 8 and 9 anastomosing to form a short areole. Hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4, and 5 from lower angle of cell. 



2216. Chlumetia transversa, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 114 ; Moore, Lep. 



Ceyl iii, pi. 151, fig. 3 ; C. $ S. no. 2217. 

 Chlumetia guttiventris, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1271. 



5 . Head pale, the base of palpi black ; thorax and abdomen 

 clothed with rufous, fuscous, and grey scales ; a ventral series of 

 white spots. Fore wing red-brown with a 

 subbasal line ; a double antemedial line ; 

 indistinct pale orbicular and reniform spots 

 with rufous medial line between them ; a 

 double postmedial line, the inner one rufous, 

 the outer slightly angled at vein 4 ; traces 

 Fig. 207. Chlumetia o f a sinuous submarginal line ; a marginal 

 "**' ? * series of black specks. Hind wing fuscous. 

 The Ganjam specimen is without the white spots on underside 

 of abdomen. 



Hal. Ganjam ; Ceylon. Exp. 18 millim. 



2217. Chlumetia alternans, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 147 ; C. $ S. no. 2215. 



c? . Differs from transversa in the thorax and abdomen being 

 darker. Fore wing green, with the basal area dark rufous ; the 

 lines indistinct except the outer postmedial line, which is rufous 

 and evenly curved ; the orbicular obsolete ; the reniform prominent 

 and ochreous ; the outer area suffused with white. Hind wing 

 with a marginal series of dark striae. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 26 millini. 



Genus BARASA. 

 Barasa, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc. vi, p. 192 (1862). 



Type, B. acronyctoides, Wlk. 



Range. Ganjam ; Ceylon ; Borneo. 



Palpi upturne d, reaching above vertex of head, the 2nd joint 



