264: NOCTTJlDiE. 



6537. Sarrothripus virescens. 



Ploihcia virescens, Hmpsn. J, Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xiv. p. 210, pi. B, 

 f. 25 (1902). 



Head and thorax yellow-green mixed Avith white and some 

 fuscous ; tegulae and patagia with blackish lines before the tips 

 which are white ; palpi, pectus, and legs white irrorated with 

 fuscous ; abdomen brownish grej% the ventral surface white. Fore 

 wing white suifiiscd with yellow-green; subbasal line blackish, 

 somewhat dentate, oblique from costa to subraedian fold, then in- 

 wardly oblique ; black spots in and below the cell before the double 

 blackish antemedial line, which is excurved to median nervurc, then 

 waved, the outer line angled outwards above inner margin ; reniform 

 small, round, its centre formed of raised deep red scales and with 

 traces of a whitish annulus with some black scales before it ; post- 

 medial line indistinctly double, minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved, and again excurved above inner margin, a black patch 

 followed by small spots beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 whitish dehned on inner side by black, excurved below costa and 

 at middle and incurved at discal and submedian folds ; a terminal 

 series of black points ; cilia whitish at base, brown at tips. Hind 

 wing whitish tinged with grey-brown ; the underside whiter with 

 fuscous subterminal shade from costa to vein 2. 



Hah. SiKHiM {Pilcher), 1 c? , 1 $ type. Kvp. 24 millim. 



*6o38. Sarrothripus musculana, (Plate CLXXXl. fig. 4.) 



Sarrothripa musculana, Ersch. Fedlscb. Eeise, p. 31, pi. 2. f. 27 (1874) ; 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 361. 



5 . Head and thorax ochreous grey with some brown scales ; 

 pectus and legs whitish tinged with brown ; abdomen grey-white 

 dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing ochreous grey irrorated with 

 fuscous ; two slight oblique dark subbasal lines from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line indistinctly double, oblique to median 

 nervure, then incurved and angled outwards at vein 1 ; postmedial 

 line indistinctly double, bent outwards below costa, angled inwards 

 at discal fold, oblique below vein 4 and bent inwards in submedian 

 interspace, then bent outwards above inner margin ; an oblique 

 diffused dark streak from apex to vein 7, then a waved subterminal 

 line angled outwards at vein 4 ; a terminal series of minute black 

 points. Hind wing white suffused with pale brown. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the lines more distinct and filled in with 

 white, the antemedial area whiter, the medial area suffused with 

 brown and with triangular fuscous shade from costa. 



Hah. W. TuKKRSTAN, Sarawschau, Alexander Mtg., in Coll. 

 Piingeler. KviJ, 26 millim. 



