NOVITAIES ZOOLOGICAE XXI. 1914. ■ 4Jf) 



above it ; terminal area white, filled np with pearl grey, the white intruding at the 

 vein-euds throngh the thick black terminal line ; fringe brown, the outer half 

 chequered with paler ; reniform stigma large, brown edged with black. 



Uindwing : dark bronzy brown, the terminal border broadly blackish ; the 

 fringe white at tips. 



Underside fuscons, darker along termen, with traces of three darker lines. 



Head and thorax brown, the metathorax showing traces of fulvous scales ; 

 abdomen blackish, with a rufous grey dorsal stripe, broad at base and narrowing off 

 to a point before anus ; venter whitish ; legs brown, with the joints and spurs 

 whitish. 



Expanse of wings : 2S mm. 



1 ¥ from Kuching, Borneo. Unlike any other known species. 



SuBFAMiLv SARROTHRIPINAE, 

 43. Nanaguua quadrifera spec. nov. 



Differs from i\'. mrieyata Hmps. in being larger ; all the blackish blotches 

 more ample ; the basal blotch not merely edged with darker, but filled in with 

 blackish ; the blotch on inner margin at middle not triangular, but erect and 

 oblong ; the inner jjale band not straight, but bent below middle ; the pink lines 

 and tints much stronger. 



2c?(?, 4 ? ? (very large) from Mt. Goliath, Dutch New Guinea, February 

 1911 (A. S. Meek). Specimens of the Indian species varieijata Hmps. also occur 

 in New Guinea; examples from Kumasi River and Haidana, CoUiagwood Bay, are 

 in the Tring Museum. 



44. Gyrtothripa semiplumbea spec. nov. 



Forewing : leaden grey, darker along costa and with slight black dusting ; 

 inner line white finely edged with black, straight and oblique from costa to sub- 

 median fold, contiguous to a dull yellow band with leaden central line, which is bent 

 on median vein, the two running vertically and obscure from fold to inner margin ; 

 a browu-black blotch on costa reaching median vein, containing two or three 

 yellowish streaks and laterally dark-edged, followed by another dull yellow band 

 with leaden centre to vein 6, where it runs outwards, emitting two or three yellowish 

 streaks to apex, then forming a large curve concave outward.? to vein 4, below which 

 it becomes lunulate-deutate and vertical ; beyond the curve another brown-black 

 blotch with dentate yellow line throngh it ; a whitish irregularly crenulate snb- 

 termiual line, indented at middle, and followed above middle by a narrow brown- 

 black terminal area ; terminal line finely black ; fringe leaden grey. 



Hindwing : whitish, semihyaline, with the apex greyish in cJ; brownish, with 

 the whole termen grey in ? ; veins dark in both sexes. 



Underside of forewing grey, except inner margin ; of hindwing whitish. 



Head and palpi dark grey, the palpi internally white ; tegulae grey mixed with 

 ochreons, with a broad black band ; patagia and metathorax black-brown ; thorax 

 and inner lower edge of patagia mixed ochreons brown and whitish j dorsum grey 

 tinged with brown ; venter, pectus, and legs internally white ; legs externally dark 

 grey. 



Expanse of wings : 28 mm. 



