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medial and postmedial waved lines excurved from below costa to 

 vein 3, the latter then incurved and approximated to former ; a 

 sinuous subterminal line with some blackish suffusion between it 

 and the postmedial line ; two obliquely placed subapical black striae. 

 Hindwing hyaline white to beyond middle ; the costal and inner 

 areas black ; the terminal third black with sinuous inner edge ; cilia 

 white. 



Hah. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). Exp. 30 mill. Type 

 in B.M. 



(3) Stictoptera cucullioides, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 52 (1852). 



Hah. West Africa, Niger, Congo ; Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss 

 P. Barrett) ; India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Singapore ; Java. 

 Exp. 36-46 mill. 



Sub-Family SARROTHRIPINiE. 



A. Forewing with an areole. 



a. Palpi upturned Blenina. 



b. Palpi porrect Plotheia. 



B. Forewing with veins 7, 8, 10 stalked, 9 absent Poliothripa. 



Genus BLENINA. 



Type. 

 5^em?ia, Wlk. xiii. 1214 (1857) donans. 



A. Hindwing with the ground colour white squamifera. 



B. Hindwing with the ground colour yellow .. .. quadripuncta. 



(1) Blenina squamifera, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 171 (1860). 

 Acronycta lichenosa, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 100, f. 9 (1874). 

 Diphthera autumnalis, Dist. A.M.N. H. (7) i. p. 222 (1898). 

 Hah. N'Gamiland (Lugard) ; Transvaal ; Natal, Estcourt 



(Hutchinson) ; Cape Colony, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett). 



Exp. 30 mill. 



(2)=^-Blenina quadripuncta, n. sp. 



J . Head and thorax white tinged with green and irrorated with 

 brown ; mid femora and hind legs pale yellow ; abdomen yellow 

 dorsally tinged with brown. Forewing white, the costal and basal 

 areas irrorated with green and black, the antemedial area with brown 

 scales ; a waved black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; 

 an interrupted waved antemedial line strongly bent outwards to 



