272 NOCTUID®. 
purplish red discoidal spot, defined on inner side by a siight white 
lunule; postmedial line double, bent outwards below costa, then 
waved, incurved below vein 4 and slightly bent outwards above inner 
margin, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 
white defined on inner side by fuscous and by a black peint at costa, 
waved, incurved at discal and submedian folds; the terminal area 
suffused with brown towards apex; a punctiform black terminal 
line ; cilia chequered with brown at base. Hind wing fuscous brown, 
the cilia white at tips; the underside with the inner area whiter 
and some white at apex. 
Hab. Mavririvs,1 9. Ewp.22 milliim. Type fT @ in Coll. de 
Joannis. 
6552. Sarrothripus mesoplaga. (Plate CLXXXI. fig. 13.) 
Sarrothripa mesoplaga, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 584 (1905). 
Q. Head and thorax grey-white mixed with fuscous; fore tarsi 
fuscous with white rings; abdomen grevish fuscous, ventrally 
whitish. Fore wing rather silvery white; a fuscous subbasal band 
defined by waved black lines from costa to submedian fold; ante- 
medial line oblique from costa to median nervure and angled out- 
wards on subcostal and median nervures, then incurved; a double 
waved medial line ; a fuscous patch on costa from the inner medial 
to beyond the postmedial line extending to median nervure; a 
white discoidal elliptical spot defined by black ; a double waved 
postmedial line bent outwards below costa, angled outwards at 
vein 6 and incurved below vein 4; a dentate subterminal line, bent 
inwards between veins 6 and +; some fuscous suffusion on inner 
and terminal areas except at apex; a terminal punctiform line. 
JIind wing pale fuscous. 
Hab, Stxcavors (Ridley), 1 2 type. Ewp. 22 millim. 
6553. Sarrothripus crystallites. (Plate CLXXXI. fig. 14.) 
Sarrothripa crystallites, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1902, p. 48. 
Sarrothripus polycyma Turner, Tr. R. Soc. 8. Austr. xxvii. p. 7 (1903). 
g. Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous ; palpi white in 
front and with black mark on Ist joint behind; tegule with black 
band near tips ; meso- and metathorax with black bands ; abdomen 
grey suffused with brown; pectus, hind legs, and ventral surface of 
abdomen white. Fore wing pale purplish grey irrorated with pale 
brown; an antemedial black striga from costa with minute streak 
beyond it in cell; antemedial line double, waved, angled outwards 
at median neryure; a double somewhat oblique waved medial line ; 
traces ofa dark discoidal point ; postmedial line double, slightly bent 
outwards below costa and angled at vein 6, incurved below vein 4 and 
bent outwards at vein 1, the inner line minutely waved, some small 
black spots beyond it on costa; subterminal line grey defined on 
each side by some fuscous suffusion, minutely waved, excurved 
