MNIOTHRIPA.—SARROTHRIPUS, 261 
6535. Mniothripa lichenigera. 
Giaura lichenigera, Hmpsn, A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 543 (1905). 
Head and thorax greenish grey more or less mixed with reddish 
brown and black ; palpi reddish brown at sides barred with black ; 
fore tibiz reddish brown in front barred with black; abdomen 
grey dorsally tinged with fuscous brown. Fore wing grey more 
or less tinged with green and irrorated with fuscous, sometimes 
mostly suffused with red-brown; a diffused black fascia in sub- 
median interspace, sometimes confined to medial area, ending at post- 
medial line or downcurved at extremity and reaching tornus, another 
streak above inner margin from near base to postmedial line some- 
times present ; a subbasal line of raised black scales, oblique from 
costa to cell where it is angled and ending at submedian fold; a 
very oblique sinuous antemedial line retracted to costa; a round 
Fig. 95.—Mniothripa lichenigera, 3. 3. 
tuft of raised seales in end of cell; postmedial line formed of raised 
black scales, sinuous, very oblique from costa to vein 4, below vein 
3 retracted to lower angle of cell, then rather oblique and defined 
by white on outer side to inner margin, sometimes with a black 
patch at costa; subterminal line whitish with diffused fuscous on 
inner side, excurved at vein 7 and at middle, bent inwards at vein 
3, then oblique to near tornus ; a terminal serics of black points 
sometimes with a fuscous band before them from below apex to 
vein 3. Hind wing fuscous brown with a reddish tinge, the inter- 
spaces pale except on terminal area. 
Ab. 1. Fore wing suffused with deep green except on medial 
costal area and without the black fascia. 
Ab. 2. Fore wing deep silvery purple-grey without any green 
tinge and without the black fascia. 
Hab. Srerra Leone (Clements), 1 3 ; 8. Nieerra, Olokemeji 
(Dudgeon), 1 3 ; Stxurm, 1 Q ; Srycapore (Ridley, Wood-Jones), 
43,3 9 type. Hxp. 18-20 millim. 
Genus SARROTHRIPUS. 
Typo. 
Sarrothripus, Curtis, Brit. Ent. i, expl. pl. 29 (1824) .............. reiayane 
Alain, Vallone WOW 10> BS) ((IEYAD) * eoseonebacoeenee anceerbenborosonancccee revayand. 
IST TCPM NEL Kee SERV TON CLS OD) erasicctisne sat sis este slatsielicicedeswesie eine TEvayana. 
Icasma, Turner, P. Linn. Soc, N.S. W. xxvii. p. 90 (1902) ...... minuta. 
PPE epee WONG. WME es eneenae ce << clupace selcoene veda venssulasdaeaiecne revayana. 
Proboscis fully developed; palpi with the 2nd joint oblique, the 8rd down- 
curved, extending about twice the length of head and fringed with long hair 
