260 NOCTUID®. 
6534. Chloethripa chlorana. 
Sarrothripa chlorana, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 528 (1896). 
Head and thorax dark sap-green with a few whitish scales, the 
patagia blackish at tips; antenne brown; abdomen fuscous brown, 
the crests with white mixed; pectus, femora, and ventral surface of 
abdomen whitish, the tibiee and tarsi brown, the spurs and tarsi 
ringed with white. Fore wing sap-green irrorated with white ; a 
diffused black and chocolate-brown shade from base in and below 
cell to middle of termen, extending to costa beyond the antemedial 
line, some brown suffusion on apical part of costa and termen ; 
antemedial line slight, white, very oblique to above vein 1, then re- 
curved to inner margin; small black spots at middle of cell and on 
Fig. 94. — Chloethripa chlorana, 3. 3 
discocellulars ; postmedial line fine, white, very oblique and slightly 
sinuous from costa before middle to vein 6, strongly incurved below 
vein 3, and angled outwards at vein 2; subterminal line white, 
slight, curved and minutely dentate to discal fold, then stronger, 
angled outwards at vein 4, then incurved and ending on termen at 
submedian fold; the inner area tinged with rufous towards tornus, 
the cilia fuscous chequered with white at tips, bright rufous towards 
tornus. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia whitish at tips. 
Hab. Stxutm, 1800’ (Dudgeon), 1 g type; Assam, Khasis, 1 9. 
Exp. 24 millim. 
Genus MNIOTHRIPA, nov. 
Type, MW. lichenigera. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 
of head and very broadly rounded with scales in front, the drd moderate; frons 
smooth, with tuft of hair above; eyes large, round; antenne of male almost 
simple ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the metathorax with 
depressed crest ; fore tibie broadly fringed on both sides with scales, the mid 
and hind tibiee moderately scaled ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. 
Fore wing with the costa strongly arched near base, the apex rounded, the 
termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 
6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the long areole ; 
11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 strongly stalked ; 5 fully developed 
from angle of cell; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell to 
near middle, 
