BA^IAtfA. 515 



the postmedial markings consist of a large ochreous-edged black 

 spot below costa, with a black patch beyond it and some small spots 

 between veins 2 and 5, with a larger patch beyond them ; a mar- 

 ginal series of ochreons-edged lunules. 



Hab. Sikhiin ; Sylhet ; Burma. Exr>., S 42, $ 50 millim. 



2539. Baniana divulsa, Wlk Cat. xxxiii, pi. 966 ; Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, 

 pi. 163, fig. 4 ; C.$S. no. 2-386. 



Fuscous brown ; the head and collar banded with black. Tore 

 wing with a black speck at base ; an antemedial dark line ex- 

 panding into a large irregular black patch with pale edges below 

 the cell ; a pale-edged black spot in cell ; a pale sinuous and angled 

 line from near apex to vein 3, thence very sharply recurved to 

 centre of discocellulars and slightly sinuous to inner margin, and 

 with black and rufous suffusion beyond it ; a postmedial series of 

 black specks from the costa to the recurved line ; traces of a sub- 

 marginal line; some pale specks on costa towards apex. Hind 

 wing dark fuscous. 



Hab. Sylhet; Bombay; Travancore ; Ceylon. Exp. 40 millim. 



Sect. II. Tore wing with a tuft of scales on inner margin before 



middle. 



A. Antennae of male with long bristles and cilia ; micl tibice very 



shorty sivollen, and without spurs. 



2540. Baniana intorta. Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 150; Hmpsn. 



III. Het. ix, pi. 163, fig. 3. 



Head and collar bright fulvous ; thorax and abdomen pale grey. 

 Tore wing pale grey, with a large subtriangular deep chocolate 

 patch with pale edges on inner area before the middle ; ante- and 

 postmedial rufous strigae from costa ; a dark speck at end of cell ; 

 a postmedial pale line sharply recurved to lower angle of cell, then 

 straight to inner margin ; the area beyond it suffused with deep 

 chocolate, growing paler towards outer margin ; traces of an irre- 

 gular submarginal line. Hind wing fuscous. 



Hab. W. Africa ; Natal ; Bombay ; Ceylon. Exp. 28 millim. 



B. Antennas of male with bristles and cilia ; mid tibice normal. 



2541. Baniana lunifera, n. sp. 



<$ . Purplish fuscous. Fore wing with a large black antemedial 

 lunule from cell to inner margin, its inner edge angled, its outer 

 edge whitish ; a pale-edged black spot in cell ; the postmedial line 

 sinuous from costa to vein 4, then recurved to upper angle of cell, 

 thence curved to inner margin, pale with black suffusion beyond it 

 in the curve and a black angled line beyond it from near costa to 

 vein 4 ; a marginal series of white specks and streaks at outer 



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