CRYPTOTHRIPA. 309 
Genus CRYPTOTHRIPA, nov. 
Type, C. occulta. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 
of head and rather slenderly scaled, the 5rd very long and somewhat dilated 
at extremity ; frons smooth, with tuft of hair above; eyes large, round; 
anteunz of male with fascicles of long cilia; thorax clothed almost entirely 
with scales, the metathorax with large depressed crest; fore tibix broadly 
fringed with hair on both sides, the mid and hind tibix moderately fringed 
with hair; abdomen with dorsal series of crests. Fore wing with the apex 
rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from 
near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 
form the long areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle 
of cell; 5 fully developed from above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 
8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
A. Fore wing with black streak beyond postimedial line in 
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B. Fore wing without black streak beyond postmedial line 
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6609. Cryptothripa occulta. 
Selepa oceulta, Swinh, P.Z.S, 1835, p. 461, pl. 27. f. 11; Hinpsn. Moths 
Ind. ii. p. 881, 
Head and thorax brown mixed with grey; palpi with the 2nd 
joint whitish with black streak at sides; pectus whitish ; abdomen 
grey mixed with fuscous brown, the crests blackish. Fore wing 
reddish brown mixed with whitish and irrorated wlth a few black 
scales; an oblique black streak from base of costa along vein 1; 
antemedial line very indistinct, waved ; a tuft of blackish scales in 
Fig. 108.—Cryptothripa occulta, 3. }. 
middle of cell; reniform slightly defined by brown, round and with 
tuft of blackish scales in centre; postmedial line brown, oblique 
from costa to vein 6, inwardly oblique below vein 2, with a black 
streak from it to termen in submedian fold, dentate and defined on 
outer side by white at vein 1, a white patch irrorated with brown 
beyond it on costal area, extending to apex and dentate at vein 6 ; 
a faint minutely waved whitish subterminal line with black streaks 
beyond it on the veins; a fine black terminal line and whitish line 
at base of cilia. Hind wing grey suffused with brown, the terminal 
area fuscous brown, with a patch of blackish scales at tornus, cilia 
brownish white except at tornus; the underside paler, a dark 
discoidal lunule and diffused curved postmedial line. 
