. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. HESrEROTHRU'A. 22'3 Genus HESPEROTHRIPA, nov. Type, H. dicyma. Proboscis fully dereloped ; palpi upturned, the 2iid joiut reaching to above verfex of head and rather slenderly scaled, the 3rd long; frons smooth; eyes large, round; anteuna3 of female minutely ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibiie slightly fringed with hair ; abdo- men with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the ternien evenly curved and not erenulato ; veins 3 and 5 from near ano-'le of cell;


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. HESrEROTHRU'A. 22'3 Genus HESPEROTHRIPA, nov. Type, H. dicyma. Proboscis fully dereloped ; palpi upturned, the 2iid joiut reaching to above verfex of head and rather slenderly scaled, the 3rd long; frons smooth; eyes large, round; anteuna3 of female minutely ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibiie slightly fringed with hair ; abdo- men with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the ternien evenly curved and not erenulato ; veins 3 and 5 from near ano-'le of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wincTwith veins 3 and 5 from angle of cell, 4 absent, coincident with 3; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle. 64S3. Hesperothripa dicyma, n. sp. 5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white slightly tinged with brown ; palpi tinged with fuscous at sides. Fore wing- grey slightly- tinged and irrorated with pale brown ; a subbasal black striga from costa ; antemedial line oblique, blackish, sinuous ; a slight blackish. Fig. 74.—Heiperutliripa dicyma, $. f. discoidal striga ; postmedial line blackish, excurved from below costa to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line rather diffused, blackish, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white faintly tinged with brown. Hah. Sierra. Leone {Clements), 1 $ type. Exp. 20 millim. Genus GARELLA. Type. Garella, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 51 (1864) rotundipennis. Bendrothripa, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 527 (1896) rotundipennis. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd rather long ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round; antenna; of male almost simple ; thorax clotlied almost entirely with scales, tlie metatliorax witli depressed crest; tibiiB slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on two basal segments. Fore wing


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