380 



series of specks. Hind wing silvery grey ; the modified scales 

 on anal area white. 



Fig. 210. Clettharina nitem, $ . \. 



Hob. E. Pegu, 5000 feet (Dolierty). Exp. 30 millim. Type in 

 coll. Elwes. 



Genus ARGYROTHRIPA, nov. 



Type, A. lilacina, Moore. 



Range. Sikhim ; Indian Peninsula ; Ceylon ; Burma. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 3rd 

 usually long ; antennae of male with long cilia ; thorax and abdo- 

 men smoothly scaled. Fore wing with veins 8 and 9 anastomosing 

 to form the areole, which is long. Hind wing with vein 5 from 

 close to angle of cell. 



SECT. I. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 from cell. 

 2225. Argyrothripa lilacina, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 289. 



d 1 . Head and thorax brown ; collar and tegulae white ; abdomen 

 pale fuscous. Fore wing silky white with a slight fuscous tinge ; 

 a very indistinct waved antemedial line with two raised specks of 



Fig. 211. Argyrothripa lilacina, $ . j-. 



scales on it in the cell ; a raised speck of scales at end of cell : a 

 highly excurved and dentate postmedial line ; three dark specks on 

 the costa before the apex ; a waved submarginal pale line. Hind 

 wing pale brownish fuscous. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Ceylon. Exp. 32 millim. 



2226. Argyrothripa orbifera, n. sp. 



<5 . Palpi with the 3rd joint short ; the retinaculum bar-shaped. 

 Head, thorax, and abdomen yellowish grey. Fore wing leaden 

 grey, suffused with olive-green as far as the postmedial line : the 

 base and inner margin pale grey : the outer area coppery red ; the 

 reniform a prominent round black-edged spot with grey centre ; 

 the postmedial line sinuous ; an indistinct irregular submarginal 

 line. Hind wing pale fuscous. 



