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line black delined on outer side by Avhite, bent outwards below 

 costa, then minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then incurved 

 and again excurved above inner margin ; subterminal line Avhite 

 defined on inner side by blackish, minutely dentate, excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind 

 wing reddish brown, the cilia whitish at tips ; the underside 

 whitish tinged with brown. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with oblique black streak from base of costa to 

 medial line at submedian fold. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with the base and medial costal area suffused 

 with blackish. 



Hob. Queensland, Cedar Bay (MeeJc), 1 § , Brisbane (Turner), 

 2 $. Kvj). 18 miJlim. 



*6550. Sarrothripus brunneicosta. (Plate CLXXXI. fig. 12.) 



Sarrothripa hnmneicosfa, Beth. -Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 225 (190G). 



5 . Head and thorax white mixed with black-brown ; abdomen 

 Avhite dorsally suffused with fuscous brown. Fore wing thickly 

 irrorated and suffused with black-brown, the disk and an oblique 

 diffused fascia from apex whiter; subbasal line double filled in 

 with white, oblique, dentate, from costa to submedian fold, with 

 brown bands befo]'e and beyond it ; antemedial line double filled in 

 with white, oblique, waved ; a white discoidal bar with slight 

 wedged-shaped black mark before it and striga beyond it ; post- 

 medial liiae double filled in with white, strongly bent outwards below 

 costa, then minutely dentate, oblique below vein 4 and angled 

 outwaids above inner margin ; subterminal line black defined by 

 white on inner side, strongly dentate ; a terminal series of small 

 triangular black spots defined by white on inner side ; cilia white 

 mixed with brown. Hind wing white tinged with brown especially 

 on terminal half from apex to vein 2. 



Jfab. Br. Kew Guinea, Aroa II. (MeeJi:), type f $ in Coll. Roths- 

 child. Exjy. 24 millim. 



6551. SarrotLripus mauritia. 



Sarrothripa mauritia, cle Joan, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1D06, p. 174, pi. 9. f. 6. 



$ . Head and thorax white mixed with some black and brown, 

 the type with the tegulee black at tips and with some purplish red 

 before the tips ; pectus and legs white, the fore and mid tibise 

 irrorated with blackish, the fore tarsi banded with black, the mid 

 tarsi with the last four segments black ; abdomen fuscous, the 

 basal crest white with black tip, the ventral surface white. Fore 

 wing white suffused and irrorated with purplish grey, the medial 

 area with triangular blackish patch on costa extending to bej'ond 

 postmedial line at costa ; antemedial line double, waved, angled 

 outwards below costa, obsolescent towards inner margin ; medial 

 lino double, waved, black, bent outwards to inner margin; a small 



