LOPHOTHRIPA.—CHLOETHRIPA. 959 
6533. Lophothripa vitea. 
Selepa vitea, Swinh. P. Z.S. 1885, p. 460, pl. 27. f. 17; Hmpsn. Ill. Het, 
B. M. ix. p. 108, pl. 163. f. 24 ; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 335. 
Head and thorax black-brown mixed with some white; abdomen 
whitish irrorated with brown, the crests darker ; pectus, legs, and 
ventral surface of abdomen white, the fore and mid tibie barred 
with black, the tarsi blackish ringed with white. Fore wing grey- 
brown suffused with fuscous black to the postmedial line; subbasal 
line black, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line black, 
oblique, with ridge of raised scales on it from costa to submedian 
fold ; medial line formed by a ridge of raised scales, slightly ex- 
curved ; a discoidal bar of raised scales ; postmedial line formed of 
raised dark scales slightly defined on outer side by white, excurved 
Fig. 93.—Lophothripa vitea, 3. }. 
beyond the cell and slightly angled inwards at discal fold, oblique 
towards inner margin, with patches of fuscous black suffusion 
beyond it at costa and middle; subterminal line black slightly 
defined on outer side by whitish, excurved and minutely waved; a 
terminal series of blackish points. Hind wing brown, whitish at 
base ; cilia with a fine white line at base and whitish tips; the 
underside white suffused with brown. 
Ab. 1. Fore wing with whitish suffusion beyond the antemedial 
line and on postmedial area. 
Hab, Benet, Calcutta, 1 2 ; Bompay (Swinhoe), 1 3,2 2 type, 
Khandalla; Mapras, Nilgiris, 1 ¢ ; Ceyton (Alston), 1 2 , Colombo 
(Green), 2 9, Puttlam (Pole), 1 ¢ ; Burma, Rangoon, 1 ¢,2 2 ; 
QurEnstanD, Townsville (Dodd), 13,2 9. Eap, 20-26 millim. 
Genus CHLOETHRIPA, nov. 
Type, C. chlorana. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 
of head and broadly rounded with scales in front, the Srd long, thickly scaled 
and fringed with hair behind; frons smooth; eyes large, round ; antenne of 
male almost simple; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without 
crests; tibiz slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal 
segments. Fore wing with the costa arched near base, the apex rounded, the 
termen evenly curved and not erenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 
6 from below upper angle; 7 from angle; 8, 9, 10 stalked; 1i from cell. Hind 
wing with veins 3, 4 shortly stalked; 5 fully developed from angle of cell; 6,7 
from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle, 
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