272 nocttttb.t:. 



purplisli red disooirlal spot, defined on inner side by a slight white 

 lunule; postmedial line double, bent out.Avards below costa, then 

 waved, incurved below vein 4 and slightly bent outwards above inner 

 margin, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 white defined on inner side by fuscous and by a black point at costa, 

 waved, incurved at discal and submedian folds; the terminal area 

 suffused with brown towards apex; a punctiform black terminal 

 line ; cilia chequered with brown at base. Hind wing fuscous brown, 

 the cilia white at tips ; the underside with the inner area whiter 

 and some white at apex. 



Hah. MAUPaiirs, 1 $ . E,vp. 22 millim. Type t $ in Coll.de 

 Joannis. 



G552. Sarrothripiis mesoplaga. (Plato CLXXXI. fig. 13.) 



Sarrothrvpa mesoplaga, Hnipsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 58-1 (1905). 



$. Head and thorax grey-white mixed with fuscous; fore tarsi 

 fuscous with white rings ; abdomen greyish fuscous, ventrally 

 whitish. Fore Aving rather silvery w^hite; a fuscous subbasal band 

 defined by waved black lines from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line oblique from costa to median nervure and angled out- 

 wards on subcostal and median neivurcs, then incurved; a double 

 waved medial line ; a fuscous patch on costa from the inner medial 

 to beyond the postmedial line extending to median nervure ; a 

 white discoid al elliptical spot defined by black ; a double waved 

 postmedial line bent outwards below costa, angled outwards at 

 vein 6 and incurved below vein 4 ; a dentate subterminal line, bent 

 inwards between veins 6 and 4 ; some fuscous suflusion on inner 

 and terminal areas except at apex ; a terminal punctiform line. 

 Hind wing pale fuscous. 



Hah. Singapore {Ridley), 1 5 type. Exp. 22 millim. 



6553. Sarrothripus crystallites. (Plate CLXXXI. fig. 14.) 



^arroihripa crystallites, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soo. 1902, p. 48. 

 Sarrothripus poly cyma Turner, Tr. E. Soe. S. Anstr. xxvii. p. 7 (1903). 



^ . Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous ; palpi white in 

 front and with, black mark on 1st joint behind ; tegula3 Avith black 

 band near tips ; meso- and metathorax with black bands ; abdomen 

 grey suffused with brown ; pectus, hind legs, and ventral surface of 

 abdomen white. Fore wing pale purplish grey irrorated with pale 

 brown ; an antcmedial black striga from costa with minute streak 

 beyond it in cell ; antemedial line double, waved, angled outwards 

 at median nervure ; a double somewhat oblique waved medial line ; 

 traces of a dark discoidal point ; postmedial line double, slightly bent 

 outwards below costa and angled at vein 6, incurved below vein 4 and 

 bent outwards at vein 1, the inner line minutely waved, some small 

 black spots beyond it on costa ; subterminal line grey defined on 

 each side by some fuscous suffusion, minutely waved, excurved 



