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b. Fore wing with vein 6 from the areole : 
hind wing with 5 from well above the 
lower angle ; 8 just touching the 
upper median 11 . Creaga, p. 20. 
Genus Bazisa (pi. I, fig. 1). 
Bazisa Wlk., Cat. XXXII, p. 398 (1865) ; type detecta. 
Bazisa, Hmpsn., Ann. S.A. Mus. (1905), p. 393 ; type melaxantha (?). 
Description from 'perculta. 
Proboscis absent ; palpi short, a little beyond frons, about as 
long as eye, porrect, two jointed, covered with woolly hair ; eye round, 
covered for nearly 1 its width by a tuft of long hair, small, a little over 
J the width of frons ; antennae bipectinate, shaft curved, branches 8 times 
thickness of shaft, ending in 2 bristles and forming on inner side a straight 
line, except at tip, where it is curved a little inwards, basal joint with a 
short hair -tuft ; fore tibia with a process as long as the tibia and ending 
in a curved point ; mid tibia with 1 pair of spurs ; hind tibia with 2 pairs, 
which are quite close together ; tarsae of all legs with very short hair ; 
abdomen just beyond the hind wings. 
Fore wing semicircular ; costa nearly straight ; termen, inner margin, 
apex, and tornus very much rounded ; vein 16 simple at base ; 2 from § 
lower median ; 3 from beyond ; 4 from lower angle ; 5 from well above 
the angle ; discocellular between 5 and 6 indistinct, angled inwards ; 
6 from well below upper angle ; 7 and 8 from upper angle on a stalk of 
nearly 4 ; 9 and 10 on a little longer stalk and from before upper median ; 
9 curved so as to approach 8, but in none of the seven specimens I examined 
do they touch and form an areole ; 11 free from § upper median ; 12 nearly 
straight. 
Hind wing sub -triangular ; large ; with the costa, termen, and inner 
margin somewhat rounded ; the apex and tornus much rounded ; a dis- 
tinct rounded lobe at vein 16 ; vein la long ; 1c represented by a short 
vein ; 2 from § lower median ; 3 from beyond ; 4 from lower angle ; 
5 almost the same distance from 4 as 4 is from 3 ; discocellular between 
5 and 6 faint and angled inwards ; 6 from well below upper angle ; 7 from 
angle ; 8 bent at before \ upper median and both veins producing a 
prominence that suggests a bar, to connect the two veins. 
The only species known to me is perculta Dist., which is placed by 
Sir Hampson in this genus, though he sinks this genus as a synonym of 
Aroa in his “ Moths of India,” p. 439. The type of this genus as described 
by Walker is detecta, which Hampson sinks as a synonym of pyrrhochroma, 
and not melaxantha as stated by Hampson in his “ Moths of South Africa,” 
p. 393. Aurivillius, l.c. p. 67, places perculta in Cropera, from which it 
differs, however, in the imperfectness of the areole, and, as this character 
seems to be constant and is a very primitive character, I think it sufficient 
to keep this genus distinct from any others. Moreover, it differs also in 
the palpi and the process of the fore tibia. I also find that Walker wrote 
the name Bazisa, and not Baziza as given by Hampson. 
