310 NOOCTUIDE. 
Hab. Bomnay, 1 ¢, Poona (Swinhoe), 1 2 type; Mapras, Belgaum 
(Watson), 1 3, Gooty (Campbell), 1 33 Cryton (Mackwood), 1 9. 
Exp. 30 millim. 
6610. Cryptothripa polyhymnia. (Plate CLXXXII. fig. 22. 
Plotheia polyhymnia, Hmpsn. Ann-§&. Afr, Mus. ii. p. 311 (1902). 
Q. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown ; fore and mid tibie 
and tarsi banded with black; abdomen with the dorsal crest black. 
Fore wing grey-brown suffused with reddish brown and with some 
dark irroration; a minute black streak above base of vein 1 and 
a diffused black fascia above median nervure and from end of cell 
above discal fold to subterminal line where it is met by an oblique 
fascia from apex ; an indistinct waved antemedial line; an annulus 
in middle of cell and larger discoidal annulus defined by brown and 
with tufts of brown scales in centre; postmedial line indistinct, 
slightly bent outwards below costa, then sinuous, excurved to vein 
4, then oblique; the oblique fascia from apex defined by whitish 
suffusion above; subterminal line indistinct, whitish, waved, 
incurved below vein 3, the interspaces beyond it with slight black 
streaks. Hind wing whitish suffused with brownish ochreous. 
Ab. 1. Fore wing with the black fascia reduced to a patch on 
median nervure before end of cell. 
Ab. 2. Fore wing with the black fascia absent. 
Hab. Navat, Durban (Leigh), 38 Q type; Carz Cotony, Annshaw 
(Miss F. Barrett), 1 Q. Exp, 34-36 millim, 
Genus BRYOTHRIPA, nov. 
Type, B. miophea. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 
of head and rather slenderly scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth, with tuft 
of hair above; eyes large, round; antenne of male almost simple; thorax 
clothed almost entirely with scales, the metathorax with depressed crest ; tibiw 
smoothly scaled; abdomen with dorsal series of crests. Fore wing with the 
apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not erenulate; vein 3 from before 
angle of cell; 4,5 from angle, 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing 
with 8 to form a long areole; 11 from cell. Hiud wing with veins 38, 4 from 
angle of cell; 5 fully developed from above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 
8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. 
6611. Bryothripa miophea, n. sp. 
Head and thorax sap-green mixed with black; abdomen grey 
suffused with fuscous, the crests black; pectus, legs, and ventral 
surface of abdomen ochreous white with a few dark scales. Tore 
wing sap-green irrorated with black ; an oblique black fascia from 
base of costa to inner margin at vein 1 where it is connected with 
a diffused fascia above inner margin extending to subterminal line ; 
a subbasal black striga from costa; antemedial line blackish, 
