SARROTHRIPUS. elk 
line black defined on outer side by white, bent outwards below 
costa, then minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then incuryed 
and again excurved above inner margin; subterminal line white 
defined on inner side by blackish, minutely dentate, excurved helow 
vein 7 and at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind 
wing reddish brown, the cilia whitish at tips; the underside 
whitish tinged with brown. 
Ab. 1. Fore wing with oblique black streak from base of costa to 
medial line at submedian fold. 
Ab. 2. Fore wing with the base and medial costal area suffused 
“with blackish. 
Hab. Qurnxsuanp, Cedar Bay (Meck), 1 9, Brisbane (Turner), 
29. exp. 18 millim. 
*6550. Sarrothripus brunneicosta. (Plate CLXXXI. fig. 12.) 
Sarrothripa brunneicosta, Beth.-Baker, Noy. Zool. xiii. p. 225 (1906). 
®. Head and thorax white mixed with black-brown ; abdomen 
white dorsally suffused with fuscous brown. Fore wing thickly 
irrorated and suffused with black-brown, the disk and an oblique 
diffused fascia from apex whiter; subbasal line double filled in 
with white, oblique, dentate, from costa to submedian fold, with 
brown bands before and beyond it ; antemedial line double filled in 
with white, oblique, waved; a white discoidal bar with slight 
wedged-shaped black mark before it and striga beyond it; post- 
medial line double filled in with white, strongly bent outwards below 
costa, then minutely dentate, ovlique below vein 4 and angled 
outwards above inner margin; subterminal line black defined by 
white on inner side, strongly dentate; a terminal series of small 
triangular black spots defined by white on inner side; cilia white 
mixed with brown. Hind wing white tinged with brown especially 
on terminal half from apex to vein 2. 
Hab. Br. New Guinua, Aroa R. (Meek), type f 2 in Coll, Roths- 
ehild. xp. 24 millim. 
6551. Sarrothripus mauritia. 
Sarrothripa mauritia, de Joan, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1906, p. 174, pl. 9. f. 6. 
@. Head and thorax white mixed with some black and brown, 
the type with the tegule black at tips and with some purplish red 
before the tips; pectus and legs white, the fore and mid tibise 
irrorated with blackish, the fore tarsi banded with black, the mid 
tarsi with the last four segments black; abdomen fuscous, the 
basal crest white with black tip, the ventral surface white. Fore 
wing white suffused and irrorated with purplish grey, the medial 
area with triangular blackish patch on costa extending to beyond 
postmedial line at costa; antemedial line double, waved, angled 
outwards below costa, obsolescent towards inner margin; medial 
line double, waved, black, bent outwards to inner wargin; a small 
