ADRAPSA. 37 



Type, A. abUalis, Wlk. 



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

 Borneo ; Gilolo. 



Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching above vertex of head ; thorax 

 and abdomen smoothly scaled ; tibiae slightly hairy. Fore wing 

 with the apex somewhat acute. Hind wing with the cell snort ; 

 veins 3, 4 usually stalked, 6, 7 stalked ; 5 from near lower angle of 

 cell. 



SECT. I. Palpi of male with long hair on inner side, and a tuft in 

 front towards extremity, the 3rd joint obliquely porrect ; 

 antennae knotted and contorted, with slight tufts of hair on 

 upperside of joints as far as middle ; fore wing with no 

 costal fold ; fore leg with a tuft of long hair and flattened 

 scales from the joint of femur and coxa. 



A. (Badiza). Palpi of male with the 2nd joint fringed in front 

 with long hair to its extremity. 



2799. Adrapsa ereboides, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc. vii, p. 198. 



(5 1 . With uniseriate branches to antennae. Fuscous black. Fore 

 wing with traces of antemedial and medial lines ; a pale lunule on 

 discocellulars ; a crenulate postmedial and sinuous submarginal 

 line, with ochreous edges ; a large ochreous-white subapical patch. 

 Hind wing with indistinct medial and postmedial lines ; a series of 

 small ochreous lunules on the margin of both wings. Underside 

 more or less suffused with ochreous. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Khasis ; Borneo. Exp. 34 millim. 



2800. Adrapsa despecta, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 1058. 



Egnasia nubifascia, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 114, pi. 165, fig. 9. 



Differs from ereboides in the male having long bristles and cilia 

 to the antennae, instead of uniseriate pectinations. 



One specimen is ochreous brown, irrorated with black. 



Hob. Khasis ; Mlgiris ; Ceylon ; E. Pegu. Exp. 34 millim. 



B. (Adrapsa). Male with a tuft of long hair from the base of 

 ^nd joint of palpus. 



2801. Adrapsa ablnalis, Wlk. Cat. xvi, p. 170; Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix, 



pi. 167, tig. 6 ; C.$S. no. 2939. 

 Bocana subapicalis, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 244 ; C. fy S. no. 3005. 



Antennae of male with uniseriate pectinations. Differs from 

 ereboides in the ante- and postmedial lines of fore wing and the 

 sinuous submarginal line being whiter, the two former nearly 

 straight ; a white speck at centre, and spot at end of cell. Hind 

 wing with the base whiter. . Underside with the basal area of 

 both wings speckled with white. 



Hob. Ceylon. Exp., rf 32, $ 36 millim. 



