PH HOTU RIPA.—MEGATHRIPA. 319 
black behind except at extremity, the 3rd blackish; abdomen grey 
tinged with brown; pectus, mid and hind Jegs, and ventral surface 
of abdomen white. Fore wing purplish fuscous, darker towards 
base, a diffused white patch at middle of inner area; faint traces of 
Fig. 1138.—Pheothripa morena, S. }. 
a curved antemedial line; a point of raised dark scales at middle of 
cell and two points at discocellulars; postmedial line formed of 
minute white striz with minute brown marks before them at vein 
6 and discal fold, bent outwards below costa and very oblique from 
discal fold to the patch at middle of inner area; a subterminal 
series of blackish points, oblique towards costa and below vein 4; 
a terminal series of blackish points. Hind wing brown. 
Hab. Prrax, Goping (Kiinstler), 1 9; Borneo, Sarawak, 1 9° 
type, Kuching (Shelford), 2 g, Sandakan (Pryer), 1 g. LEvp. 
24-28 millim. 
Genus MEGATHRIPA, nov. 
Type, M. rufimedia. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to middle 
of frons, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth; eyes large, round; antenne of 
female ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax 
without crest, the metathorax with divided crest; tibiz slightly fringed with 
hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex 
rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near 
angle of cell; 6 from below upper angle; 7 from angle; 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 
from cell. Hind wing with veins 38, 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. 
6624. Mezathripa rufimedia 
Sarvothripa rufimedia, Hinpsn. Ann. 8. Afr, Mus. iii. p. 429 (19035). 
@. Head and thorax grey mixed with black; palpi white in 
front; pectus white; legs ochreous white with some black and 
brown irroration, the fore tarsi black ringed with white; abdomen 
brown with ochreous white rings, the basal crest grey and black, 
the ventral surface white slightly irrorated with brown. Fore wing 
grey thickly irrorated with brown and black ; subbasal line double, 
blackish, angled outwards below costa, then oblique; antemedial 
line double, blackish, oblique to median nervure where it is angled 
outwards, again angled outwards in submedian fold and excurved 
