MNIOTHKIPA. SAEEOIHRIPUS. 261 



6535, Mniothripa lichenigera. 



Glaura lichenigem, Hinpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 543 (1905). 



Head and thorax greenish grey more or less mixed with reddish 

 brown and black ; palpi reddish brown at sides barred with black ; 

 fore tibiae reddish brown in front barred with black ; abdomen 

 grey dorsally tinged with fuscous brown. Fore wing grey more 

 or less tinged with green and irrorated with fuscous, sometimes 

 mostly suffused with red-brown ; a diffused black fascia in sub- 

 median interspace, sometimes confined to medial area, ending at post- 

 medial line or dowucurved at extremity and reaching tornus, another 

 streak above inner margin from near base to postmedial line some- 

 times present ; a subbasal line of raised black scales, oblique from 

 costa to cell where it is angled and ending at submedian fold ; a 

 very oblique sinuous antemedial line retracted to costa ; a round 



Fig. 95. — Mniothripa livlieiiigera, (^ . f . 



tuft of raised scales in end of cell ; postmedial line formed of raised 

 black scales, sinuous, very oblique from costa to vein 4, below vein 



3 retracted to lower angle of cell, then rather oblique and defined 

 by white on outer side to inner margin, sometimes with a black 

 patch at costa ; subterminal line whitish with diffused fuscous on 

 inner side, excurved at vein 7 and at middle, bent inwards at vein 

 3, then oblique to near tornus ; a terminal series of black points 

 sometimes with a fuscous baud before them from below apex to 

 vein 3. Hind wing fuscous brown with a reddish tinge, the inter- 

 spaces pale except on terminal area. 



Ab. 1. Tore wing suffused Vi'ith deep green except on medial 

 costal area and without the black fascia. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing deep silvery purple-grey without any green 

 tinge and without the black fascia. 



Hah. SiERKA Leone {Clements), 1 ^ ; ^. Nigeria, Olokemeji 

 (Dudgeon), 1 S ; Sikhim, 1 5 ; Singapore (liidlei/, Wood-Jones), 



4 c? , 3 $ type. JSn^^. 18-20 millim. 



Genus SARROTHRIPUS. 



Typo. 



Sarroihri'piis, Curtis, Brit. Eiit. i. expl. pi. 29 (1824) revayana. 



Axia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 395 (1827) revayana. 



Suhrita, Wlk. xxxv. 1743 (186(5) revayana, 



Icasma, Turner, P. Linn, yoc, N. S. W. xxvii. p. 90 (1902) minuta. 



Isycteola. Hilbn. Tent, iued revayana. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint oblique, the 8rd down- 

 curved, extending about twice the length of head and fringed with long hair 



