LOPHOTHKIPA. — CHLOETHEIPA. 259: 



6533. Lophothripa vitea. 



Selepa vitea, Swinh. P.Z.S. 1885, p. 460, pi. 27. f. 17 ; Hrapsn. 111. Het. 

 B. M. ix. p. 108, pi. 163. f. 24 ; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 385. 



Head and thorax black-brown mixed with some white ; abdomen 

 whitish irrorated with brown, the crests darker ; pectus, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen white, the fore and mid tibite barred 

 with black, the tarsi blackish ringed with white. Pore wing grey- 

 brown suffused with fuscous black to the postmedial line ; subbasal 

 line black, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line black, 

 oblique, with ridge of raised scales on it from costa to submedian 

 fold ; medial line formed by a ridge of raised scales, slightly ex- 

 curved ; a discoidal bar of raised scales ; postmedial line formed of 

 raised dark scales slightly defined on outer side by white, excurvcd 



Fig. 93. — LopJiothripa vitea, S • \- 



beyond the cell and slightly angled inwards at discal fold, oblique 

 towards inner margin, with patches of fuscous black suffusion 

 beyond it at costa and middle ; subterminal line black slightly 

 defined on outer side by whitish, excurved and minutely waved ; a 

 terminal series of blackish points. Hind wing brown, whitish at 

 base ; cilia with a fine white line at base and whitish tips ; the 

 underside white suffused with brown. 



Ab. 1. Pore wing with whitish suffusion beyond the antemedial 

 line and on postmedial area. 



Hah, Bengal, Calcutta, 1 $ ; Bombay (/SiynJioe), 1 cJ , 2 5 type, 

 Khandtilla ; Madras, Nilgiris, 1 S ', Ceylojst (Alston), 1 5 , Colombo 

 (Green), 2 $, Puttlam (Pole), 1 c? ; Bukma, Eangoon, 1 J , 2 5 ; 

 Queensland, Townsville (Dodcl), 1 6,2 $ . Exjy. 20-26 millim. 



Genus CHLOETHRIPA, nov. 



Type, C. chlorana. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching lo yertex 

 of head and broadly rounded with scales iu front, the 3rd long, thickly scaled 

 and fringed with hair behind ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennje of 

 male almost simple ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without 

 crests ; tibite slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen -with dorsal crests on basal 

 segments. Fore wing with the costa arched near base, the apex rounded, the 

 termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

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

 wing with veins 3, 4 shortly stalked ; 5 fully developed from angle of cell ; 0, 7 

 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle, 



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