264 NOCTUID®. 
6537. Sarrothripus virescens. 
Plotheia virescens, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xiv. p. 210, pl. B, 
f, 25 (1902). 
Head and thorax yellow-green mixed with white and some 
fuseous ; tegule and patagia with blackish lines before the tips 
which are white; palpi, pectus, and legs white irrorated with 
fuscous ; abdomen brownish grey, the ventral surface white. Tore 
wing white suffused with yellow-green; subbasal line blackish, 
somewhat dentate, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then in- 
wardly oblique; black spots in and below the cell before the double 
blackish antemedial line, which is excurved to median nervure, then 
waved, the outer line angled outwards above inner margin ; reniform 
small, round, its centre formed of raised deep red scales and with 
traces of a whitish annulus with some black scales before it ; post- 
medial line indistinctly double, minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, 
then incurved, and again excurved above inner margin, a black patch 
followed by small spots beyond it on costa; subterminal line 
whitish defined on inner side by black, excurved below costa and 
at middle and incurved at discal and submedian folds; a terminal 
series of black points; cilia whitish at base, brown at tips. Hind 
wing whitish tinged with grey-brown ; the underside whiter with 
fuscous subterminal shade from costa to vein 2. 
Hab. Sixuim (Pilcher), 1 g,1 9 type. Eup. 24 millim. 
#6538. Sarrothripus musculana. (Plate CLXXXI. fig. 4.) 
Sarrothripa musculana, Ersch. Fedtsch. Reise, p. 31, pl. 2. f. 27 (1874) ; 
Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 361. 
Q. Head and thorax ochreous grey with some brown scales ; 
pectus and legs whitish tinged with brown ; abdomen grey-white 
dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing ochreous grey irrorated with 
fuscous; two slight oblique dark subbasal lines from costa to sub- 
median fold; antemedial line indistinctly double, oblique to median 
neryure, then incurved and angled outwards at vein 1; postmedial 
line indistinctly double, bent outwards below costa, angled inwards 
at discal fold, oblique below vein 4 and bent inwards in submedian 
interspace, then bent outwards above inner margin ; an oblique 
diffused dark streak from apex to vein 7, then a waved subterminal 
line angled outwards at vein 4; a terminal series of minute black 
points. Hind wing white suffused with pale brown. 
Ab. 1. Fore wing with the lines more distinct and filled in with 
white, the antemedial area whiter, the medial area suffused with 
brown and with triangular fuscous shade from costa. 
Hab. W. Torxesray, Sarawschan, Alexander Mts., in Coll. 
Pingeler. xp, 26 millim, 
