BARASA. BLENITfA. 377 



thickly scaled, the 3rd long and naked. Antennae fasciculated in 

 male. Fore wing of male with a tuft of long hair arising from 

 vein 1 near the base ; veins 3, 4, and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle ; 9 rising from 10 arid anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 stalked j 5 from 

 angle of cell ; 6 and 7 from upper angle ; 8 from 7 at middle of 

 cell. 



2218. Barasa acronyctoides, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc. vi, p. 192. 

 Barasa cana, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 107, pi. 163, fig. 5. 



c? Head and thorax white, irrorated with brown scales ; collar 

 banded with brown. Fore wing white, irrorated with brown; 

 traces of a subbasal line ; an indistinct dentate antemedial black 



Fig. 208. Barasa acronyctoides, $ . \. 



line and curved postmedial line ; a marginal series of black specks ; 

 some patches of brown suffusion on costa and outer area ; the tuft 

 of hair on vein 1 black. Hind wing pale fuscous. 



Hal). Ganjam ; Ceylon ; Borneo. Ex., $ 28, 22 millim. 



Genus BLENINA. 



Blenina, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1214 (1857). 

 Eliocroea, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 935 (1865). 

 Amrella, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 158 (1882). 



Type, B. donans, Wlk. 



Range. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Andamans ; 

 Cerarn ; New Guinea ; Australia. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 3rd 

 of moderate length ; thorax smoothly scaled ; abdomen with slight 

 tufts at the base on the dorsum. Fore wing short and square, 

 with the apex nearly rectangular ; the inner margin lobed near 

 base ; slight tufts of raised scales on antemedial, medial, and post- 

 medial lines, and on discocellulars ; the areole long and narrow ; 

 the retinaculum bar-shaped in male. Hind wing with veins 2, 3, 

 4, and 5 from lower angle of cell. 



SECT. I. (Blenina). Antenna) of male minutely ciliated ; fore wing 

 with the outer margin slightly excised towards outer angle ; 

 hind wing rounded. 



2219. Blenina donans, If 77,-. Cat. xiii, p. 1215 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, 

 pi. 160, fig. 2 C.Sf S. no. 2264. 



