PLOTHEIA.—TATHOTHRIPA. 307 
Ab. 12. concisa. Similar but with oblique black line on outer side 
of the whitish band. 
Ab. 13. Fore wing grey with the inner area red-brown. 
Ab. 14. Fore wing with the antemedial and postmedial lines 
defined by white and with white streaks on veins 7, 6, base of vein 
3, and on vein 1. 
Ab, 15. Similar but the fore wing fuscous black except the base, 
inner margin and tornal balf of terminal area. 
Ab. 16. Similar but fore wing wholly suffused with black except 
a brownish ochreous band before the antemedial line. 
Ab. 17. Fore wing with the whole medial area whitish tinged 
with brown. 
Ab. 18. griseowirens. Fore wing olive-greyish with some whitish 
suffusion on medial area. 
Ab. 19. Similar but fore wing with patches of white on basal 
area, medial area below costa and in reniform, at cae below apex 
and at extremity of submedian fold. 
Ab. 20. albivitia. Fore wing with diffused de ee white 
fascia from below costa near base to postmedial line at discal fold. 
Ab. 21. Fore wing with broad white medial band, its inner edge 
oblique, its outer curved and emitting a fascia to middle of tornus. 
Ab. 22. albotecta. Fore wing white, the base, costal area to 
middle, and apical area red-brown. 
Ab. 23. rudivitta. Fore wing with black antemedial band and 
fascia from it through the cell to near termen. 
Ab. 24. Fore wing with oblique blackish band from costa at 
antemedial line to inner margin towards tornus with streak from 
it at lower angle of cell to termen at discal fold. 
Ab. 25. lata. Fore wing with brown streaks in discal fold on 
terminal area, on bases of veins 3, 2 and a streak on base of vein 1, 
at middle bent upwards to submedian fold and ending at post- 
medial line. 
Ab. 26, Similar but with the streaks black. 
Ab. 27. Fore wing with rufous fascia below median nervure and 
from lower angle of cell to termen. 
Hab, Cryton (Lindesay), 18 3,19 9, type and types plagiata, 
signata, subglauca, velata, onusta, guttulosa, imprimis, frontalis, 
canescens, basifascia, cimerascens, spurcata, concisa, griseovirens, 
albivitta, albotecta, rudivitta, lativitta, lata, Pundaloya (Green), 
20 g, 21 2, Dickoya (Green), 1 9, Kandy (Mackwood), 1 ¢, 
Ww: Haputale (Mackwood), 1 3, Trincomali (Yerbury), 4 ¢, 2 Q. 
Exp. 24-36 millim. 
Larva. Food-plant, Coffee (Nietner). 
Genus TATHOTHRIPA, nov. 
Type, 7’. contivua. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 
of head and ooo scaled, the 8rd long; frons smooth; eyes large, round ; 
antenne of male almost simple ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and 
without crests; tibie slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on 
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