376 



TTOCTUID.E. 



outer area grey except at apex ; indistinct waved subbasal, ante- 

 medial, and postmedial lines ; a black speck at end of cell. Hind 

 wing fuscous. 



Hah. Ceylon. Exp. 26 millhn. 



Genus CHLUMETIA. 



Chlumetia, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1270 (1865). 

 Nachaba, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 113 (1863) (prajocc). 



Type, C. transversa, Wlk. 



Range. Sikhim ; Ganjarn ; Ceylon. 



Palpi witb the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head and thickly 

 clothed with scales, the 3rd short ; antenna* of male bipectinated ; 

 thorax smoothly scaled ; abdomen with dorsal tufts ; tibiae mode- 

 rately hairy. Fore wing with hardly a trace of raised buttons of 

 scales ; veins 8 and 9 anastomosing to form a short areole. Hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4, and 5 from lower angle of cell. 



2216. Chlumetia transversa, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 114; Moore, Lep. 



Ceyl. iii, pi. 151, fig. 3 ; C. $ S. no. 2217. 

 Chlumetia guttiventris, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1271. 



$ • Head pale, the base of palpi black ; thorax and abdomen 



clothed with rufous, fuscous, and grey scales ; a ventral series of 



white spots. Eore wing red-brown with a 



subbasal line ; a double antemedial line ; 



indistinct pale orbicular and reniform spots 



with rufous medial line between them ; a 



double postmedial line, the inner one rufous, 



the outer slightly angled at vein 4 ; traces 



Pig. 207. —Chlumetia £ a sinuous submarginal line ; a marginal 



ransversa, y. i. series of black specks. Hind wing fuscous. 



The Gran jam specimen is without the white spots on underside 



of abdomen. 



Hob. Ganjam ; Ceylon. Exp. 18 millim. 



2217. Chlumetia alternans, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 147 ; C. # S. no. 2215. 



3 . Differs from transversa in the thorax and abdomen being 

 darker. Tore wing green, with the basal area dark rufous ; the 

 lines indistinct except the outer postmedial line, which is rufous 

 and evenly curved ; the orbicular obsolete ; the reniform prominent 

 and ochreous ; the outer area suffused with white. Hind wing 

 with a marginal series of dark striae. 



Hah. Sikhim. Exp. 26 millim. 



Genus BARASA. 



Barasa, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc. vi, p. 192 (1862). 



Type, B. acronyctoides, Wlk. 



Range. Ganjam ; Ceylon ; Borneo. 



Palpi upturne d, reaching above vertex of head, the 2nd joint 



