NOCTTJID^E. 525' 



with a large black-brown patch below median nervure from near 

 base to inner margin. 



Hah. Sikhim. Exp. 22 inillim. 



2203 a. Plotheia nigralba, Rmpsn. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1895, p. 305. 



<$ . Fuscous black. Fore wing with large white patches at 

 middle of costa and just before apex, enclosing black spots on the 

 costa ; indistinct waved subbasal, antemedial, postmedial, and sub- 

 marginal black lines ; a marginal series of grey specks. 



Hah. Bhutan. Exp. 26 millim. 



Genus Barasa. — Sect. II. Fore wing with vein 7 from beyond 

 the areole ; male with no tuft of hair from vein 1. 



2218 a. Barasa alopha, n. sp. 



Differs from acronyctoides in the antemedial line of fore wing 

 being nearer the base and curved ; the postmedial line nearer the 

 base, angled inwards below the cell and outwards on vein 1. 



Hah. Tanna, Bombay ; Puttalam, Ceylon {Pole). Exp. 24 millim. 

 Type in B. M. 



2218 h. Barasa COStalis, Dudgeon, Hmpsn. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1895, p. 305. 



White, slightly tinged with fuscous ; palpi with the 2nd joint 

 black at sides. Fore wing with short fuscous subbasal line ; fine 

 waved antemedial line ; spot in cell ; double waved medial line ; 

 irregularly dentate postmedial and submarginal lines ending close 

 together near outer angle ; a slight fuscous shade inside the 

 margin ; black specks on costa at origin of lines. Hind wing pale 

 fuscous ; underside of fore wing darker fuscous. 



Hah. Sikhim ; Bhutan. Exp. 26 millim. 



2218 c. Barasa floccifera, n. sp. 



S . Greyish white suffused with brown. Fore wing irrorated 

 with a few black scales ; a short black bar from base of costa ; 

 tufts of raised scales on the traces of antemedial line, in end of cell, 

 and on the faint postmedial line, which is incurved from vein 4 to 

 inner margin. Hind wing with some brownish hair on base of 

 inner area ; underside with indistinct sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Bhutan (Dudgeon). Exp. 26 millim. Type in B. M. 



2222 a. Blenina minor, n. sp. 



5 . Head and thorax white and fuscous ; palpi banded with 

 fuscous ; abdomen tinged with fuscous. Fore wing white, irrorated 

 with a few black scales ; the inner area near base and beyond middle 

 irrorated with olive scales ; a quadrate fuscous patch near base of 

 costa ; sinuous ante- and postmedial black lines, with a quadrate 

 fuscous patch between them on costa diffused down to vein 1 ; a 

 black discocellular spot ; the postmedial Hue arising from a fuscous 



