516 noctuidjE. 



angle. Hind wing fuscous, with blackish medial and submarginal 

 diffused bands. 



Hob. Ganjam. Exp. 34 millim. Type in coll. Elwes. 



C. (Birtha). Antennae of male bipectinated ; mid tibice clothed with 

 very long hair ; fore wing with both ante- and postmedial tufts 

 on inner margin. 



25±2. Baniana insulata, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 976 ; Hmpsn. III. Het. 

 ix, pi. 163, fig. 8 ; C. $ S. no. 2187. 



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

 Fore wing grey-brown with slight purplish suffusion ; an ante- 

 medial fulvous band with pale edges, expanding into a large patch 

 below the cell ; the orbicular and renif orm deep rufous with pale 

 edges and a patch on costa above them, the former small ; an 

 indistinct postmedial line very sharply excurved from vein 3 to 

 lower angle of cell, with a rufous patch on it at inner margin and 

 some pale patches beyond it ; a triangular rufous patch on costa 

 before apex, with two white specks on the costa ; a marginal series 

 of dark specks. Hind wing greyish fuscous with dark marginal 

 line ; underside with cell-spot and postmedial line. 



Hob. Old Calabar ; Ceylon. Exp. 36 millim. 



g, O C LA Cf n . V | ( , 2?!r6 V* 2 ) 

 Genus BORSIPPA. . . .. t r . 



Borsippa, Wlk. Cat xv, p. 1756 (1858). 

 Aramuna, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii ? p. 35 (1885). 



Type, B. quadrilineata, Wlk. 



Range. Congo ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Borneo. 



Palpi slender and reaching vertex of head, the 3rd joint 

 minute ; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled ; tibiae fringed with 

 hair. Fore wing with the apex rounded. Hind wing with vein 5 

 from lower angle of cell. 



Sect. I. Male with the patagia very minute and with tufts of 

 elongate scales from them ; the anal tuft large. 



A. (Borsippa). Male with the antennce ciliated ; no sexual patches 

 on either wing. 



2543. Borsippa quadrilineata, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1756. 



Borsippa marginata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 173 ; C. fy & no. 2318. 



Beddish grey-brown. Fore wing with oblique straight subbasal 

 and antemedial rufous lines ; incurved medial and postmedial lines, 

 the former double; a large semicircular black patch with an 

 indentation in its upper edge on outer margin ; a marginal series of 

 pale specks. Hind wing dark fuscous. 



In quadrilineata, from Borneo, there is a prominent black spot 



