BABASA. BLENINA. 377 



thickly scaled, the 3rd long and naked. Antenna fasciculated in 

 male. Fore wing of male with a tuft of long hair arising from 

 vein 1 near the base ; veins 3, 4, and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle ; 9 rising from 10 and anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 stalked ; 5 from 

 augle of cell ; 6 and 7 from upper angle ; 8 from 7 at middle of 

 cell. 



2218. Barasa acronyctoides, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc. vi, p. 192. 

 Barasa cana, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 107, pi. 163, fig. 5. 



S . Head and thorax white, irrorated with brown scales ; collar 

 banded with brown. Pore wing white, irrorated with brown; 

 traces of a subbasal line ; an indistinct dentate antemedial black 



Fig. 208. — Barasa acronyctoides, <$ . \. 



line and curved postmedial line ; a marginal series of black specks ; 

 some patches of brown suffusion on costa and outer area ; the tuft 

 of hair on vein 1 black. Hind wing pale fuscous. 



Hah. Ganjam ; Ceylon ; Borneo. Exp., tf 28, $ 22 millim. 



2.2 )%\ % : P" Genus BLENINA.V «- k * 



■ Blenina, Wlk. Cat. xhi, p. 1214 (1857). ,„,_ ji e 



Jhiliocroea, Wlk. Cat. xxxm, p. 935 (1865). ^{ ^en A 3-5 J) 



Amrella, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 158 (1882). 1% ^ ^ ^ cU \ 9 ^ U H*y t ». ] <~ 4£2. Kl 



Type, B. donans, Wlk. 



Range. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Andamans ; 

 Ceram ; New Gruinea ; Australia. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 3rd 

 of moderate length ; thorax smoothly scaled ; abdomen with slight 

 tufts at the base on the dorsum. Fore wing short and square, 

 with the apex nearly rectangular ; the inner margin lobed near 

 base ; slight tufts of raised scales on antemedial, medial, and post- 

 medial lines, and on discocellulars ; the areole long and narrow ; 

 the retinaculum bar-shaped in male. Hind wing with veins 2, 3, 

 4, and 5 from lower angle of cell. 



Sect. I. (Blenina). Antennae of male minutely ciliated; fore wing 

 with the outer margin slightly excised towards outer angle ; 

 hind wing rounded. 



2219. Blenina donans, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1215 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. hi, 

 pi. 160, fig. 2 ; C.$S. no. 2264. 



