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2232 a. Ptisciana niphea, n. sp. 



$ . Head and thorax pure white ; abdomen with an ochreous 

 tinge. Fore wing pure white ; a small triangular black subbasal 

 spot on costa with traces of a waved line from it, beyond which are 

 short black streaks in and below cell ; traces of a medial waved line, 

 with a fuscous patch beyond it on inner margin ; a pale olive-green 

 waved line from before middle of costa to beyond lower angle of 

 cell, then becoming erect ; a large fuscous postmedial patch from 

 costa to vein 5, with a tridentate black mark beyond it on the 

 irregular obsolescent submarginal line, which emits two black teeth 

 on veins 2 and 3 ; a black patch on margin below apex. Hind wing 

 tinged with fuscous towards margin. 



Hob. Ceylon (Pole). Eocp. 20 millim. Type in B. M. 



2232 b. Ptisciana lichenosa, n. sp. 



cJ . Head and thorax white ; palpi with rufous and black scales 

 at sides ; collar tinged with green ; abdomen fuscous. Fore wing 

 with black-edged green patch at base of costa ; the basal half white 

 tinged with green, bounded by a waved oblique black line ; the outer 

 half reddish brown irrorated with black ; a waved postmedial line 

 angled on vein 6 ; an obscure waved submarginal line ; a white 

 apical patch. Hind wing pale suffused with fuscous, especially on 

 apical area. 



Hob. Khasis. Exp. 24 millim. Type in B. M. 



Genus DENDROTHRIPA, nov. 



Type, D. rufipuncta, Hmpsn. 



Range. Kangra; Ceylon. 



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

 well developed ; antennae of male ciliated ; abdomen without dorsal 

 tufts. Fore wing with the apex rectangular ; veins 7, 8, 9, 10 

 stalked. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked ; 5 absent. 



2236 a. Dendrothripa rufipuncta, n. sp. 



<$ . Greyish brown. Fore wing with two somewhat irregular 

 fine black antemedial lines, the area between them somewhat 



paler; a rufous spot at lower 

 angle of cell, with a tuft of scales 

 below it and an oblique black 

 striga from costa above vein 2 ; 

 an indistinct minutely dentate 

 postmedial line excurved beyond 

 cell, bent inwards, and with a 



-p. 275 rufous spot in its sinus below 



Dendrothripa rufipuncta, rf. \. vein 2 ; traces of a submarginal 



minutely -dentate black line ; a 



marginal series of black specks. Hind wing whitish, suffused with 

 brown towards margin ; the cilia ochreous. 



Hob. Kangra (Hocking). Exp. 20 millim. Type in B. M. 



