SYMPIS. — BANIANA. 513 



Palpi upturned and smoothly scaled, the 2nd joint reaching above 

 vertex of head, the 3rd long and slightly curved ; antennae ciliated 

 in male ; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled ; the tibiae not 

 spined, and clothed with short hair ; the 1st joint of hind tarsi 

 fringed with hair on the upperside. Fore wing with the apex 

 somewhat produced and acute. 



2535. Sympis rufibasis, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 344, pi. 24, fig. 1 ; C fy S 

 no. 2761. 



S . Head and thorax orange - 



red ; abdomen red-brown. 



Fore wing with the basal area 



orange-red, bounded by an 



oblique blue line ; the outer 



area red-brown, with a large 



scarlet lunule beyond the cell 



and a white speck on the 



■n- noT" c "■ hi • toOi costa above it ; an indistinct, 



Fig. 288. — Symms rufibasis, tf . \. . , , , ' , ' 



3 ^ irregularly dentate, submar- 



ginal line ; a marginal series of specks. Hind wing fuscous, with 

 incomplete medial white band and waved whitish marginal line. 

 Underside almost entirely suffused with grey; a crenulate post- 

 medial line. 



2 without the scarlet lunule on fore wing. 



Hah. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma; Sumatra; Java. 

 Exp. 48 millim. 



Genus BANIANA. 



Baniana, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1843 (1858). 

 Birtha, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 976 (1865). 



Type, B. significans, Wlk., from the W. Indies. 



Range. W. Indies ; S. America ; Africa ; Sikhim ; Sylhel ; 

 Peninsular India ; Ceylon ; Burma. 



Palpi usually reaching vertex of head, the 3rd joint minute ; 

 thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. Fore wing with the apex 

 slightly produced and falcate. Hind wing with vein 5 from above 

 lower angle of cell. 



Sect. I. Pore wing with no tuft of scales on inner margin before 

 middle. Male with long bristles and cilia to the antennae. 



A. (Baniana). Mid tibice with tufts of long hair on inner side ; 

 palpi reaching vertex of head. 



2536. Baniana semilugens, Wlk. Cat. xii, p. 814 ; Hmpsn. III. Het. 

 viii, pi. 143, fig. 13 ; C. $ S. no. 1905. 

 Baniana luteiceps, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 1000. 



Head and collar fulvous ; thorax and abdomen grey-brown. 



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