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105. Sarrothripa brunneicosta spec. nov. 



S- Head and thorax greyish, abdomen darker. Primary darkish grey with a 

 broad white serrate costal line ; a fine double dentate median line, a double 

 irregular dentate postmedial line — both these two double lines filled in with whitish ; 

 a serrate snbterminal line rising in a whitish apical patch ; from this patch an 

 oblique pale area crosses the wing ; reniform darkly ontliued ; costa broadly 

 brownish grey with a dark grey spot touching the reniform. Secondary grey, pale 

 at the base. 



Expanse : 24 mm. 



Hab. Aroa Biver, .January. 



Type in the Tring Museum. 



This species will come next S. grisea Hpsn., but the medial and postmedial 

 lines differ. 



ion. Sarrothripa arcuosa spec. nov. 



? . Head, thorax and abdomen grey, collar brownish grey. Primary dark 

 grey, with a considerable suffusion of dark olive-green scales ; near the base is a 

 fine arc of whitish, beyond which the ground-colour is dark olive-green ; two dark 

 dots in the cell, in a patch of pale greyish ; postmedial line dark greenish, irregular, 

 and produced outward beyond the cell, edged below with whitish ; following the 

 postmedial line is a row of dark dashes on the veins, subapical area whitish grey ; 

 snbterminal line somewhat indistinct in the tornal area. Secondary dark grey. 



Expanse : 20 mm. 



Hah. The type is in my collection from Dinawa, where the species occurs in 

 August. 



107. Sarrothripa kebea. 



J. Head whitish ; collar brownish at base, black beyond tipped with white ; 

 thorax whitish, largely jiatched with blackish ; abdomen dove-grey. Primary 

 blackish, with an antemedial and medial oblique bar of whitish invaded and serrated 

 by the black ground ; extreme base whitish ; two oblique costal dashes of white at 

 the apex, the hindmost of which touches nearly at right angles a white dash beyond 

 the cell ; snbterminal line obscure ; tornal area up to vein 5 pale grey. Secondary 

 white for basal half, becoming dark grey beyond. 



Expanse : 30 — 32 mm. 



Hrib. The type is in my collection from the Kebea Range, where the species 

 occurs in March and April. I have specimens from other localities taken in August. 



108. Sarrothripa avola spec. nov. 



c?. Head and thorax wliite, slightly tinged with green and finely barred with 

 black ; abdomen pale grey. Primary greenish white, with about eight very fine 

 oblique irregular dentate or serrate black lines ; the innermarginal and terminal 

 areas are darker greyish ; the termen is spotted alternately with black and white. 

 Secondary white for the basal half, becoming dark grey beyond. 



Expanse : 29 mm. 



Ilab. The type is in my collection from Avola, where the species occurs in 

 August. 



