BAEASA. 391 



wMte, the apical area suft'tised with red-brown ; cilia red-brown to 

 vein 2, then white ; the underside with the apical area and termen 

 to vein 2 tinged with brown. 



Hah. Br. New Guinea, Ekeikei [Pratt), type t c? in Coll. 

 Bethune-JBaker, Mt. Kebea. Exp. '62 millim. 



Sect. II. Fore wing of male without tuft of haii* on underside; vein 7 from 

 beyond the areole which is narrower. 



A. Fore wing without dark patch at base of costal area. 



«. Fore wing with the subterminal line slight and excurved 

 below vein 7. 

 a}. Fore wing with the postmedial line strongly incurved 



below vein 4 and excurved above inner margin ... alopha. 

 b\ Fore wing with the postmedial line incurved from 



vein 4 to inner margin codalis. 



b. Fore wing with the subterminal line fetrong and not 



excurved below vein 7 tetragramma. 



B. Foi-e wing with dark patch at base of costal area basigerella. 



6720. Barasa alopha. 



Barasa alopha, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 525 (1896). 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen white mixed with brown ; palpi 

 blackish at sides ; tarsi blackish ringed with white. Fore wing 

 white tinged with red-brown and slightly irrorated with black; a 

 slight blackish streak in base of cell ; antemedial line blackish, 

 curved, waved, interrupted ; tufts of raised whitish scales at 

 middle and upper angle of cell ; postmedial lino blackish slightly 



Fig. 149.— £rtr«sa alopha, ,^, \, 



defined on outer side by white, bent outwards below costa, ex- 

 curved and minutely waved to vein 4, then strongly incurved and 

 again strongly excurved at vein 1 ; subterminal line defined on 

 inner side by blackish sufi'usion, excurved below vein 7 and at middle 

 and angled inwards at discal and submedian folds, the veins beyond 

 it streaked with black. Hind wing semihyaline white, the apex 

 tinged with brown ; a fine terminal brown line. 



5 . Much whiter and with hardly a trace of the brown tinge. 



Hah. EoMBAY, Thanna Distr., Wangni (Swinhoe), 1 c^ type ; 

 Ceylon, Pullam {Pole), 1 $ . Exp. 2i-26 millim. 



