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G791. Macrobarasa xantholoplia. 



Bhnina xantholo2>ha, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 526 (1896). 



c? . Head and thorax white mixed with red-brown ; palpi with 

 the 2nd joint black above ; tegulse with black line near base, 

 dorsally edged with black and with black point at middle ; patagia 

 with black point at middle ; metathorax with small tuft of pale 

 j-eliow scales ; mid tarsi black except at base ; abdomen white 

 mixed with fuscous brown, paler at base and extremity, the ventral 

 surface ochreous. Pore wing whitish suffused in parts with red- 

 brown, the base, disk and middle of terminal area paler, the veins 

 with slight dark streaks ; subbasal line slight, interrupted, waved, 

 from costa to submedian fold where there is a minute tuft of yellow 

 scales on it ; antemedial line black, with two slight dentitions below 

 costa, then waved and with black band on its outer edge from cell 



Macrobarasa xantholoplia, (J. 



to inner margin where it extends to the medial line ; orbicular 

 minute, round, defined by black and filled in with yellow ; reniform 

 rather narrow, defined by black, its upper part filled in with rufous, 

 its lower by pale yellow ; medial line black, slightly angled inwards 

 below costa, then oblique to lower angle of cell, angled inwards to 

 before origin of vein 2 and with three dentitions above inner margin ; 

 postmedial line double, the inner line black, the outer rufous, 

 strongly bent outwards and produced to a slight point below costa, 

 then excurved, dentate at veins 4, 3, then incurved and angled 

 outwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line black with some white 

 suffusion before and bej'ond it towards costa where it is minutely 

 dentate, angled inwards at discal and submedian folds, and with black 

 streaks beyond it on the veins ; a fine waved dark terminal line. 

 Hind wing whitish tinged with rufous, the veins brown, the 

 terminal area fuscous black, broadly at costa, narrowing to tornus; 

 cilia ochreous white with some fuscous mixed ; the underside 

 whitish, the terminal area sufi"used with fuscous, a black discoidal 

 lunule and diffused curved postmedial line from costa to vein 2. 

 Hab. Assam, Khtisis {BcuhjUy), 2 S type. Ex-p. 38 millim. 



