. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. GYRTOTHEirA. 449 with brown, the ventral surface white. Fore wing grey suffused 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 discoidal point; postmedial line indistinct, double,. Fig. 161.— Gijriothnpa pusilla, S- I- obli(inely curved downwards from costa to vein 6, then minutely waved,
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. GYRTOTHEirA. 449 with brown, the ventral surface white. Fore wing grey suffused 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 discoidal point; postmedial line indistinct, double,. Fig. 161.— Gijriothnpa pusilla, S- I- obli(inely 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 d", 4 $ ; Punjab, Simla, 1 5; Sikhim (Dudgeon), 1 $; Assam, Nagas; Bengal, Calcutta(AtJdnson), I 2 type, Ganjam; Ceylon, Trincomali (G'lYen), 1 2; Andamans, 1 2; Singapore {Ridley), 2 $ ; Queensland, Townsville {Dodd), 1 d, 1 ? • Exp. lG-22 millim. 6799. Gyrtothripa microdonta, n. sp. (Plate CLXXXVI. fig. 13.) 5 . Head and thorax white mixed with dark brown, the tegulae dark brown at tips ; abdomen white faintly tinged with brown, the basal crest with 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 lino 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
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