516 NOCTUID.E. 



angle. Hind wing fuscous, with blackish medial and submarginal 

 diffused bands. 



Hob. Granjam. Exp. 34 millim. Type in coll. Elwes. 



C. (Birtha). Antennae, of male bipectinated ; mid tibice clothed iv'ttli 

 very long hair; fore wing with both ante- and postmedial tufts 

 on inner margin. 



2542. Baniana insulata, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 976 ; Hmpsn. III. Het. 

 ix, pi. 163, fig. 8; C. $ 8. no. 2187. 



Head and collar bright fulvous ; thorax and abdomen grey-brown. 

 Fore wing grey-brown with slight purplish suffusion ; an ante- 

 medial fulvous band with pale edges, expanding into a large patch 

 below the cell ; the orbicular and reniform deep rufous with pale 

 edges and a patch on costa above them, the former small ; an 

 indistinct postmedial line very sharply excurved from vein 3 to 

 lower angle of cell, with a rufous patch on it at inner margin and 

 some pale patches beyond it ; a triangular rufous patch on costa 

 before apex, with two white specks on the costa ; a marginal series 

 of dark specks. Hind wing greyish fuscous with dark marginal 

 line ; underside with cell-spot and postmedial line. 



ffab. Old Calabar ; Ceylon. Exp. 36 millim. 



Genus BORSIPPA. 



Borsippa, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1756 (1858). 

 Aramuna, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 35 (1885). 



Type, B. quadrilineata, Wlk. 



Range. Congo ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Borneo. 



Palpi slender and reaching vertex of head, the 3rd joint 

 minute ; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled ; tibiae fringed with 

 hair. Fore wing with the apex rounded. Hind wing with vein 5 

 from lower angle of cell. 



SECT. I. Male with the patagia very minute and with tufts of 

 elongate scales from them ; the anal tuft large. 



A. (Borsippa). Male with the antennas ciliated no sewual patches 

 on either wing. 



2543. Borsippa quadrilineata, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1756. 



Borsippa marginata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 173 ; C. fy S. no. 2318. 



^Reddish grey-brown. Fore wing with oblique straight subbasal 

 and antemedial rufous lines ; incurved medial and postmedial lines, 

 the former double; a large semicircular black patch with an 

 indentation in its upper edge on outer margin ; a marginal series of 

 pale specks. Hind wing dark fuscous. 



In quadrilineata, from Borneo, there is a prominent black spot 



