260 NOCTUIDiE. 



6534. Chloethripa chlorana. 



Sarrothripa cUornna, Hmpsn. Moths Incl. iv. p. 528 (1896). 



Head and thorax dark sap-green with a few whitish scales, the 

 patagia blackish at tips ; antcnna3 brown ; abdomen fuscous brown, 

 the crests with white mixed ; pectus, femora, and ventral surface of 

 abdomen whitish, the tibise and tarsi brown, the spurs and tarsi 

 ringed with white. Fore wing sap-green irrorated with white ; a 

 diffused black and chocolate-brown shade from base in and below 

 cell to middle of termen, extending to costa beyond the anteracdial 

 line, some brown suffusion on apical part of cost a and termen ; 

 antemedial line slight, white, very oblique to above vein 1, then re- 

 curved to inner margin ; small black spots at middle of cell and ou 



■ ■ IS 



Yig.^^—CUodhripa cldorana, S- I 



discocellulars; postmedial line fine, while, very oblique and slightly 

 sinuous from costa before middle to vein 6, strongly incurved below 

 vein 3, and angled outwards at vein 2 ; subterminal line white, 

 slight, curved and minutely dentate to discal fold, then stronger, 

 angled outwards at vein 4, then incurved and ending on termen at 

 submedian fold ; the inner area tinged with rufous towards torniis, 

 the cilia fuscous chequered with white at tips, bright rufous towards 

 tornus. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia whitish at tips. 



Hah. SiKHiM, 1800' {Dudgeon), 1 J type; Assam, Khasis, 1 $ . 

 Exp. 24 millim. 



Genus MNIOTHRIPA, nov. 



Type, M. lichenigera. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi iipturnecl, th.e 2ncl joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and very broadly rounded with scales in front, the 3rd moderate: frons 

 smooth, VTith tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennse of male almost 

 simple ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the metathorax with 

 depressed crest ; fore tibite broadly fringed on both sides with scales, the mid 

 and hind tibife moderately scaled ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. 

 Fore wing with the costa strongly arched near base, the apex rounded, the 

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

 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the long areole ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 strongly stalked ; 5 fully developed 

 from angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to 

 near middle. 



