450 NOCTUIDF. 
Genus MEDAVA. ie 
Medava, Wik: xxvii. 113,(1863); cshaccrsedscacssa0eta5es7 eens diminuens. — 
Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to middle 
offrons and fringed with hair behind towards extremity, the 3rd short, porrect ; 
frons smooth; eyes large, round; antennz of male ciliated; thorax clothed 
almost entirely with scales and without crests; fore tibiz fringed with long 
hair on outer side, the mid and hind tibie moderately fringed with hair; 
abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the apex rounded, 
the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3and 5 from near angle of 
cell; 6 from below upper angle ; 7 from angle; 8, 9, LO stalked; 11 from cell. 
Ilind wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell; 6, 7 from upper angle; 
8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. 
6800. Medava diminuens. 
Medava diminuens, Wik. xxvii. 118 (1863). 
3. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with dark brown. 
Fore wing grey irrorated with brown, the antemedial area suffused 
with dark brown widening to costa, the extreme base white; 
subbasal line represented by blackish strize from costa and cell; 
antemedial line indistinct, double, waved ; a dark point on middle 
of costa, slight discoidal point and faint oblique shade from cell to 
inner margin; postmedial line indistinct and defined on outer 
Fig. 162.—Medava diminuens, $. 3. 
side by whitish, with dark point at costa, somewhat oblique to 
vein 6, incurved at discal fold, then dentate and at vein 3 recurved 
to lower angle of cell; subterminal line indistinet, whitish, 
minutely dentate, with dark patch on its inner side at costa and 
point on outer; a terminal series of small brown spots defined on 
inner side by white lunules. Hind wing whitish suffused with 
brown; cilia whitish. 
Hab. Brazit, Amazons, Ega (Bates),1 ¢ type. Hap. 22 millim. 
Genus STICTOTHRIPA, nov. 
Type, S. grisella. 
Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about 
middle of frons and moderately sealed, the 3rd typically long and porrect ; 
frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennz of female ciliated; thorax clothed 
chiefly with scales, the metathorax with depressed crest; fore femora and 
tibiw fringed with long hair, the mid and hind tibiw moderately fringed with 
