HESrEROTHRU'A. 22'3 



Genus HESPEROTHRIPA, nov. 



Type, H. dicyma. 



Proboscis fully dereloped ; palpi upturned, the 2iid joiut reaching to above 

 verfex of head and rather slenderly scaled, the 3rd long; frons smooth; eyes 

 large, round; anteuna3 of female minutely ciliated; thorax clothed almost 

 entirely with scales and without crests ; tibiie slightly fringed with hair ; abdo- 

 men with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the 

 ternien evenly curved and not erenulato ; veins 3 and 5 from near ano-'le of 

 cell; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wincTwith 

 veins 3 and 5 from angle of cell, 4 absent, coincident with 3 ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle. 



64S3. Hesperothripa dicyma, n. sp. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white slightly tinged with 

 brown ; palpi tinged with fuscous at sides. Fore wing- grey slightly- 

 tinged and irrorated with pale brown ; a subbasal black striga from 

 costa ; antemedial line oblique, blackish, sinuous ; a slight blackish 



Fig. 74. — Heiperutliripa dicyma, $ . f. 



discoidal striga ; postmedial line blackish, excurved from below 

 costa to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line rather diffused, 

 blackish, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series 

 of black points. Hind wing white faintly tinged with brown. 

 Hah. Sierra. Leone {Clements), 1 $ type. Exp. 20 millim. 



Genus GARELLA. 



Type. 



Garella, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 51 (1864) rotundipennis. 



Bendrothripa, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 527 (1896) rotundipennis. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd rather long ; frons smooth ; eyes 

 large, round; antenna; of male almost simple ; thorax clotlied almost entirely 

 with scales, tlie metatliorax witli depressed crest; tibiiB slightly fringed with 

 hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on two basal segments. Fore wing with the 

 apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 6 from 

 near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 and 10 anastomosing with 7 and 8 

 to form a minute areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3 and 5 stalked, 

 4 absent, coincident with 3 ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with tho 

 ceil to near middle. 



A. Fore wing with the postraedial line strongly excurved 



between veins 6 and 4 rohmdipennis. 



B. Fore wing with the postmedial line slightly excurved 



between veins 6 and 4 nnhilosa. 



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