. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. MACEOBAKASA. 443 G791. Macrobarasa xantholoplia. Bhnina xantholo2>ha, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 526 (1896). c?. Head and thorax white mixed with red-brown ; palpi with the 2nd joint black above; tegulse with black line near base, dorsally edged with black and with black point at middle ; patagia with black point at middle ; metathorax with small tuft of pale j-eliow scales; mid tarsi black except at base ; abdomen white mixed with fuscous brown, paler at base and extremity, the ventral surface ochreous. Pore wing whitish su
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. MACEOBAKASA. 443 G791. Macrobarasa xantholoplia. Bhnina xantholo2>ha, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 526 (1896). c?. Head and thorax white mixed with red-brown ; palpi with the 2nd joint black above; tegulse with black line near base, dorsally edged with black and with black point at middle ; patagia with black point at middle ; metathorax with small tuft of pale j-eliow scales; mid tarsi black except at base ; abdomen white mixed with fuscous brown, paler at base and extremity, the ventral surface ochreous. Pore wing whitish suffused in parts with red- brown, the base, disk and middle of terminal area paler, the veins with slight dark streaks; subbasal line slight, interrupted, waved, from costa to submedian fold where there is a minute tuft of yellow scales on it; antemedial line black, with two slight dentitions below costa, then waved and with black band on its outer edge from cell. Macrobarasa xantholoplia, (J. to inner margin where it extends to the medial line ; orbicular minute, round, defined by black and filled in with yellow ; reniform rather narrow, defined by black, its upper part filled in with rufous, its lower by pale yellow ; medial line black, slightly angled inwards below costa, then oblique to lower angle of cell, angled inwards to before origin of vein 2 and with three dentitions above inner margin; postmedial line double, the inner line black, the outer rufous, strongly bent outwards and produced to a slight point below costa, then excurved, dentate at veins 4, 3, then incurved and angled outwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line black with some white suffusion before and bej'ond it towards costa where it is minutely dentate, angled inwards at discal and submedian folds, and with black streaks beyond it on the veins; a fine waved dark terminal line. Hind wing whitish tinged with rufous, the veins brown, the terminal area fuscous black, broadly at costa, narrowing to tornus; cilia o
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