GIAURA. YSd5 
*6574. Giaura venalis. (Plate CLXXXLI. fig. 30.) 
Dendrothripa venalis, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool, xiii. p. 226 (1906). 
3. Head and tegule white, the latter with brown spots at 
sides; palpi brown at base and tips; antenne black except at 
base ; thorax white mixed with brown especially on patagia and 
metathorax ; abdomen whitish suffused with brown. Tore wing 
brown mixed with white and irrorated with black, the medial area 
white from beyond lower angle of cell to inner margin; black 
points below base of costa and cell; two widely separated subbasal 
sinuous black lines from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line 
black defined by white on inner side, oblique, sinuous ; postmedial 
line blackish slightly defined on outer side by white, very oblique 
and sinuous from costa to vein 4, then strongly incurved and oblique 
to inner margin; subterminal line white defined on inner side by 
brown and with slight white suffusion before it towards costa, 
excurved below vein 7 and at middle and angled inwards at discal 
and submedian folds; a fine terminal black line. Hind wing 
whitish tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area suffused 
with brown, 
Hab. Br. New Gurnea, Dinawa (Pratt), type fT ¢ in Coll. 
Bethune-Baker. vp, 22 millim. 
*6575. Giaura nigrescens. (Plate CLXXXI. fig. 31.) 
Barasa nigrescens, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 222 (1906). 
Q@. Head and thorax grey mixed with black ; palpi whitish in 
front and at base of 3rd joint; antenne black except basal joint ; 
abdomen grey dorsally suffused with fuscous, the basal crest white 
tipped with black, the ventral surface irrorated with black towards 
extremity. Fore wing grey tinged with brown and suffused with 
black especially on basal area ; antemedial line rather diffused, black 
defined on outer side by whitish, erect, minutely waved; a black 
medial line, oblique from costa to discal fold, then minutely waved, 
an elliptical black spot beyond it in end of cell; postmedial line 
formed by double series of black points and with rather diffused 
spots on costa, oblique from below costa to vein 6 and below vein 4; 
subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined on inner side by fuscous, 
excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a diffused blackish apical 
patch and terminal series of black strie. Hind wing white, the 
terminal area suffused with fuscous brown from apex to submedian 
fold when it narrows to a point; cilia brown with a white line at 
base, wholly white towards tornus; the underside with the costal 
area suffused and irrorated with fuscous. 
Hab. Br. New Gouryea, Dinawa (Pratt), type tT Q in Coll. 
Bethune-Baker, Hap. 34 millim. 
