5S4 NocTuiniE. 



with an oblique white bar from costa, then indistinct, pale, waved, 

 with white points on median nervure and vein 1, clavitbrm an 

 elliptical white spot : orbicular an elliptical white spot ; reniform a 

 small white lunule with minute round white spot beyond it ; post- 

 medial line with white bar from costa, then slight, double, black tilled 

 in with yellowish, bent outwards below costa, then with minute white 

 points beyond it on the veins, incurved below vein 4, some white 

 points beynd it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined 

 on inner side by small dentate black marks, slightly incurved at 

 discal fold and below vein 3 ; an oblique black shade from apex ; 

 a terminal series of slight black lunules. Hind wing greyish 

 suffused with reddish brown especially on terminal area ; a blackish 

 discoidal lunule and terminal series of points ; the underside white, 

 the costal area and terminal area to vein 4 irrorated with black, a 

 black discoidal spot, postmedial line bent outwards below costa, 

 waved to vein 4, then oblique, a terminal series of slight black 

 lunules. 



Hah. Sumatra, Kaba, itot Springs Pot Volcano, 3,000' {H. 0. 

 Forbes), 1 $ type. Exi^. 24 millim. 



Genus BORBOTAKA. 



Type. 



Borhotana, Wlk. xv. 1651 (1868) nivifascia. 



Clioluata, Wlk. Jom-n. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 57 (1864) nivifascia. 



Proboscis folly developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint moderately sealed 

 and reaching about to vertex of head, the 3rd moderate; irons smooth; eyes 

 large, rounded ; anteniiaj with large tuft of scales from basal joint, in male 

 typically serrate and with long fasciculate cilia ; thorax clothed chiefly with 

 scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; tibia; thickly scaled ; 

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

 rectangular, the termen evenly curved ; veins 3 and 6 from near angle of cell ; 

 vein 6 from below angle of cell ; 7 from angle ; 8, 9, 10 stalked, or 10 from 

 cell in male; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 

 5 obsolescent from middle of discoceliulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 ana- 

 stomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennee of male serrate and with fascicles of long ciha; fore wing 

 with vein 7 downcurved at base and with groove of ribbed membrane 

 above it. 



A. Fore wing with the triangular discoidal spot rather before 



the oblique band ; hind wing wholly tinged with rufous ... nivifascia. 



B. Fore wing with the triangular discoidal spot in line with 



oblique band ; hind wing white, the termnial area rufous 



to submedian fold cehem. 



3453, Borbotana nivifascia. 



Borhotana nivifascia, Wlk. xv. 1651 (1858). 



Choluata eburneifera, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 57 (1864). 

 Heierochroma hucograi^ha, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xx. p. 70, pi. 5. f. oa-d 

 (1877). 



Head and thorax deep rufous mixed with some white, metathorax 

 with \\hite mark; palpi with the extremities of 2nd and 3rd joints 



