. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. GYRTOTHRIPA. 449 with brown, the ventral surface white. Pore wing grey sufFased with pale olive-brown, the costa and termeu tinged with purple - brown; the lines olive; antemedial line indistinct, double, curved; medial line indistinct, double, very slightly sinuous, with a leaden- grey band before it between subcostal nervure and vein 1; a minute blackish disooidal point; postmedial line indistinct, double,. Fig. 161.— Gyrtothripapusilla, S. |. obliquely curved downwards from costa to vein 6, then minutely waved, somewhat ob
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. GYRTOTHRIPA. 449 with brown, the ventral surface white. Pore wing grey sufFased with pale olive-brown, the costa and termeu tinged with purple - brown; the lines olive; antemedial line indistinct, double, curved; medial line indistinct, double, very slightly sinuous, with a leaden- grey band before it between subcostal nervure and vein 1; a minute blackish disooidal point; postmedial line indistinct, double,. Fig. 161.— Gyrtothripapusilla, S. |. obliquely curved downwards from costa to vein 6, then minutely waved, somewhat oblique and with some leaden grey beyond it followed by another line; subterminal line whitish defined on each side by olive, minutely waved; a fine red-brown terminal line. Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins and termen brown ; cilia whitish at tips. Hab. Gold Coast, Accra {Sir G. Carter), 2 J, 4 $; Punjab, Simla, 1 5; Sikhim (Dudgeon), 1 §; Assam, Nagas ; Bengai, QdlGutt?i,{Ailcinson), 1 § type, Ganjam; Ceylon, Trincomali (G^reen), 1 5; Andamans, 1 2; Singapore (Ridley), 2 $; Queensland, Townsville (Dodd), 1 J, 1 $ • Exp. 16-22 millim. 6799. Gyrtothripa microdonta, n. sp. (Plate CLXXXVI. fig. 13.) 2 . Head and thorax white mixed with dark brown, the tegular dark brown at tips ; abdomen white faintly tinged with brown, the basal crest witli brown tip; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white; a brown spot at base of cell; antemedial line double, brown, oblique from costa to submedian fold, angled inwards at vein 1 and outwards above inner margin, an oblique brown band beyond it from costa to submedian fold ; medial line double, dentate to discal fold, then oblique to submedian fold where it terminates ; a black discoidal point on a slight whitish mark; postmedial line double, dentate, oblique to vein 6, angled inwards at discal fold and oblique below vein 4 ; a subterminal series of small dentate blackish marks, the marks above and below discal fold farther
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