38 S' KOCTTJID^. 



indistinct, blackish, miinitely dentate, exeurved from costa to 

 vein 4, then slightly incurved, defined on inner side hy some 

 golden scales; subtenninal line grey defined on inner side by 



Fig. 147. — Aquis orbicularis, J. }, 



some golden scales, minutely dentate, exeurved below vein 7 and 

 nt middle ; a terminal series of minute black points. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown with a fine pale line at base of cilia ; the underside 

 greyer. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with black mark in submedian fold before 

 autemedial line. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with basal half grey-white and without golden 

 scales. 



Ab. 3. Similar but fore wing with black patch at base of costa. 



Ab. 4. Similar to ab. 2 but fore wing with black streak in 

 submedian fold before the antemedial line, and spot beyond it. 



Ab. 5. habooni. Similar to ab. 2 but fore wing with the grey 

 produced on inner area to tornus. 



Ab. 6. crenulata. Fore wing with both basal and terminal areas 

 grey, a black band on outer medial area. 



Ab. 7. Similar but fore wing with black patch at base of costa. 



Ab. 8. Fore wing grey with black patch at base of costa and 

 fascia below the cell from base to termen. 



Ab. 9. Tlie type. Fore wdng deep purple irrorated with fulvous 

 yellow especially on antemedial area, the postraedial and terminal 

 areas white irrorated with fulvous yellow except towards costa. 



Hab. SiKHiM (FilcJier, Dudgeon, Udller), 8 c? » 14 $ ; Ceylon, 

 (Templeton), 1 J type, Watiegama (Green), 1 S ; SiNGAPORE(i?irf/^?/, 

 irood-Jones), 1 cJ, 2 5 ; Borneo, Sandakan {Pryer), 1 5 ; Dtttch 

 jS". Gtjinea, Fak-fak (Pratt), 1 cj" ; Br. N. Guinea, types t crenulata 

 and babooni in Coll. Bethune-Baker. Ea^i. 22-28 millim. Type 

 c/riseink/ra t in Coll. Kothschild. 



Genus BARASA. 



Type. 



Barasa, Wlk. Joiirn. Linn. Soc, Zoo), vi. p. 192 (1862) acronyctoides. 



Ceparcha, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 476 cymatistis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, tlie 2nd joint reaching about to 

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd long; frons smootli, with ridge 

 of scales above; eyes large, round ; antennae of male with fascicles of long 

 cilia ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, 

 the metathorax with depressed crest; tibise moderately fringed with hair; 

 abdomen with dorsal crests on three basal segments. Fore wing witli the apex 



