444 



NOCTUID^. 



*6792. Macrol)arasa xanthosticta. (Plate CLXXXVI. fig. 8.) 



Argyruthripa xanthosticta, Hinpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 381 (1894). 



6 . Head and thorax white mixed with brown ; palpi with tlie 

 1st and 2nd joints at sides and sides of frons black ; vertex of 

 head with black streak ; tegulae with black medial line and slight 

 streaks at dorsum and middle ; pectus and legs white ; abdomen 

 white irrorated with brown and dorsally tinged with rufous. Fore 

 wing Avhite thickly irrorated with brown ; subbasal line black, 

 waved, from costa to vein 1, a yellow point beyond it at submedian 

 fold ; the antemedial area with brown shade ; antemedial line black, 

 oblique, slightly angled outwards below costa and inwards at sub- 

 median fold ; medial line black, oblique from costa to lower angle 

 of cell, then retracted and sinuous ; reniform defined by black and 

 filled in with lemon-yellow on basal part, a faint figure-of-eighfc 

 shaped brown-edged mark beyond it between veins 7 and 3 ; post- 

 medial line black, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved and 

 sinuous, another faint brown line bej^ond it ; subterminal line 

 rather diffused, black, somewhat dentate and interrupted, defined 

 on each side b}^ white at costa, angled inwards at discal fold and 

 at submedian fold to near postmedial line ; a terminal series of 

 slight blackisli lunules ; cilia white chequered with brownish. 

 Hind wing white faintly tinged with ochreous, the terminal area 

 broadly fuscous broAvn ; cilia white chequered with brownish ; the 

 underside with small blackish discoidal spot. 



Hah. SiKHiM (Mbller). type t d in Coll. Rothschild. Ex-j^, 36 

 millim. 



Genus BAILEYA. 



Type. 

 Leptina, Guen. Noct. i. p. 14 (1852), nee. Mieg. Dipt. (1830)... dormitans. 

 Bailey a, Grote, Abh. Nat. Ver. Brem. xiv. p. 123 (1895) dormitans. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint i-eaching; about 

 to middle of frons and. moderately scaled, the 3rd joint short ; frons smooth ; 

 eyes large, round; antenna of male with long fasciculate cilia ; thorax clothed 

 with scales and hair mixed, the pro- and metathorax with spreading cresrs ; 

 fore tibiifi fringed with long hair on outer side, the mid and hind tibiae 

 moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing long and 

 narrow, the apex rounded, the termen 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 rather long areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell ; 5 fully developed from above angle ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with oblique white patch at base. 



a. Fore wing with white disooidal lunule defined on outer 



side by an oblique black patch, the postmedial line 



prominent and white douhledayi. 



b. Fore wing without prominent white postmedial line. 



a'. Fore wing with the reniform round with blacls point 



in centre ophthalmica. 



