296 NOCTUID®. 
defined by blackish scales extending from near base to beyond the 
cell, to costa on antemedial area and down to vein 1; postmedial line 
blackish, punctiform, oblique towards costa and excurved between 
veins 7 and 4, a patch of reddish brown suffusion beyond its medial 
part extending to termen below apex ; some blackish points on costa 
towards apex ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia tinged with black 
and rufors. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area tinged 
with brown ; a slight brownish line near base of cilia. 
Hab. Burma, Rangoon, 19; Borneo, Sarawak (Wallace), 12 
type Andrapha basalis. Fap. 18 millim. Type fT in Mus, Oxon. 
Genus MICROTHRIPA, nov. 
Type, MW. beota. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 
vertex of head and moderately sealed, the 38rd moderate; frons smooth ; eyes 
large, round; antenne of female minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost 
entirely with scales and without crests; tibix slightly fringed with hair ; abdo- 
men with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the 
termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; 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 5 from angle of cell, 4 absent, coincident with 3; 6,7 
from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle. 
6482. Microthripa beota. 
Dendrothripa beota, Turner, P. Linn. Soc. N. 8. W. xxvii. p. 93 (1902). 
2. 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 
erey-white slightly suffused in parts with fuscous ; subbasal line 
black, oblique, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line double, 
Fig. 75.—Microthripa heota, 9. 
pone 
black, oblique, slightly sinuous ; an oblique black striga from middle 
of costa and black discoidal point ; postmedial line black and oblique 
towards costa, then very indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then 
oblique and minutely dentate ; subterminal line indistinct, fuscous, 
minutely waved; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 
white, the veins and termen tinged with pale brown. 
Hab. QurEnstand, Townsville (Dodd), 19. Exp. 14 millim. 
