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three basal segments, very long in male. Fore wing with the costa highly arched 
near base, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; 
veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 and 10 anasto- 
mosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 
from angle of cell; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper 
angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
6608. Tathothripa continua. 
Ariola continua, Wik. Journ. Linn, Soc., Zool. vi. p. 196 (1862); Swinh. 
Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. 76, pl. ii. f. 11. 
Ariola includens, W1k. Journ. Linn. Soe., Zool. vi. p. 197 (1862). 
Ariola deflera, Wik. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. vi. p. 197 (1862) ; Swinh. Cat. 
Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. 76, pl. ii. f. 20. 
Bryophila leucorhiza, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 100. f. 12 (1874). 
Head and thorax pure white; palpi brown; antennae and a bar 
between their bases brown; pectus and legs suffused with brown ; 
abdomen ochreous white, the crests pure white. Fore wing fuscous 
brown with a greyish tinge, the inner area pure white from base 
of costa to termen at vein 3, its upper edge with a triangular inden- 
tation at middle, then slightly sinuous; small black spots at middle 
of cell and on discocellulars ; postmedial line indistinct, blackish, 
slightly bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, obsolete 
on the white area, traces of another diffused dentate line beyond 
Fig. 107.—Taiothripa continua, g. *. 
it ; subterminal line represented by a series of small dentate black 
spots, slightly angled outwards below vein 7 and obsolete on the 
white area; a terminal series of minute black points and fine pale 
line at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous brown with a fine whitish 
line at base of cilia; the underside pale grey, the costal area and 
terminal area to vein 3 suffused and irrorated with brown. 
Ab. 1, 2. deflewa, Fore wing without white on terminal half of 
inner area, the outer edge of the white obliquly curved from base 
of costa to middle of inner margin. 
Ab. 2, 2. Similar but fore wing with the white on basal half of 
inner area enclosing a large elliptical black patch. 
Ab. 3, ¢. includens. Similar to ab. 2 but fore wing with curved 
white streak from the outer edge of the white area at vein 1 to 
tornus emitting a tooth at middle to vein 3 anda streak to termen 
at veln 3. 
Hab. Punane (Flower), 1 ¢, 1 9; Singapore (Ridley, Wood- 
Jones). 16 3, 6 9 ; Bornuo, Sarawak ( Wallace, Meade- Waldo), 
5 $6, 6 2, Kuching (Shelford), 1 6, 12. Kavp. 26-28 millim. 
Type f and types ¢ dcludens and defleva in Mus, Oxon. 
