BARASA. 38^ 



founded, tlie tennen evenly curved and not, crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form a sbort and typically broad areole ; J 1 from cell. Hind vpiiig with 

 veins o, 4 stalked ; 6 fully developed from well above angle ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. 



Sect. I. Fore wing of male with a.ntemedial tuft of long hair from vein 1 on 

 underside; vein 7 from end of areole which is short and broad, 



A. Foni wing with the postraedial line inciu'ved below 



vein 4 acro/ij/cioicletf. 



B. Fore wing with the postmedial line exeurved and 



minutely dentate from below costa to inner nuvrgin. 



«. Fore wing with blackish patch at middle of costa ct/ mat id is. 



b. Fore wing without blackish patch at middle of costa ... yrineolu. 



6717. Bavasa acronyctoides. 



Barasa acroni/cioides, Wik. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 192 (I8(i2); 



Hmpsn. Moths Ind, ii. p. 377. 

 Sarrothripa caradrinoides, Sneil. Tijd. v. Ent. xxii. p. 91, pi. 10. ff. 10, 



a-d (1879). 

 Barasa catia, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B.M. ix. p. 107, pi. 163. f. 5 (1893). 



Head and thorax white slightly mixed with brown, the tegulse 

 with diffused brown medial band ; palpi brown at sides ; antennae 

 brown except towards base ; legs mostly brown, the tarsi Idack- 

 brown ringed with white ; abdomen white suffused with brown 



Fig. 148. — Barasa acronyctoides, S • \- 



towards extremity, the crests with brown mixed. Fore wing 

 while tinged in parts with brown and irrorated with a few brown 

 scales ; subbasal line represented by brown spots on costa and in 

 cell ; antemedial line brown with small spot at costa, then slight 

 and sinuous, oblique to submedian fold, then inwardly oblique; 

 tufts of brown scales at middle and upper angle of cell, the latter 

 with spot above it on costa ; a waved line from lower angle of ceil 

 to inner margin ; postmedial line with spot at costa, angled 

 outwards below costa, then sinuous, oblique to vein 5, then 

 inwardly oblique, some small dark spots beyond it on costa; 

 subterminal line dark, punctiform towards costa, then dentate, 

 bent outwards below vein 7 ; a terminal series of black points 

 and series of small dark spots at base of cilia. Hind wing white, 

 the veins and terminal area tinged with brown. Underside of fore 

 wing of male with the tuft of hair blackish at tips. 



