. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 226 N0CTTjrDJ5. defined by blacldsh scales extending? from near base to beyond the cell, to costa on antemcdial area and down to vein 1 ; postmedial line blackish, punctiform, oblique towards costa and excnrved between veins 7 and 4, a patch of reddish brown suiFusion beyond its medial part extending to termon below apex ; some blackish points on costa towards apex ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia tinged with black and rufous. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area tinged with brown ; a slight brownish line near bas


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 226 N0CTTjrDJ5. defined by blacldsh scales extending? from near base to beyond the cell, to costa on antemcdial area and down to vein 1 ; postmedial line blackish, punctiform, oblique towards costa and excnrved between veins 7 and 4, a patch of reddish brown suiFusion beyond its medial part extending to termon below apex ; some blackish points on costa towards apex ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia tinged with black and rufous. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area tinged with brown ; a slight brownish line near base of cilia. Hah. Bpkma, Eangoon, 1$; Bokneo, Sarawak (WaTlnee:), 12 type Andrapha hasalis. Exp. 18 millim. Type t in Mus. Oxon. Genus MICROTHRIPA, nov. Type, M. hrtoia. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, tlie 2nd joint reaching about to vertex of head and moderntely scaled, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth ; eyea large, round ; antenna of female minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibias slightly fringed with hair ; abdo- men with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not creniilate ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9,10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3 and 6 from angle of cell, 4 absent, coincident with 3; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle. 6482. Microthripa l)ceota. Bendrothripa heeota, Turner, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. xxvii. p. 93 (1902). $ . Head and thorax grey-white slightly mixed with fuscous; palpi tinged with brown; abdomen white tinged with brownish ochreous ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen white. Fore wing grey-white slightly suffused in parts with fuscous ; subbasal line black, oblique, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double,. Fig. lu.—Microthripa heeota, § . |. black, oblique, slightly sinuous : an oblique black striga from middle of costa and


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