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helow vein 7 and afc middle; a punctiform black terminal line. 

 Hind wing white, the terminal half suffused with brown from 

 costa to subiuedian fold. 



Hah. QuKKNSLAND, Brisbane (Twi-wer), 4 c? . Exp. 22-24 millim. 



6554. Sarrothripus poliophsea. 



Symltha noMella, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B.M. ix. p. 107, pi. 163. f. G; id. 



Moths Ind. ii. p. 388 (iiec Wlk.). 

 Sarrothripa 2^olioph(Ea, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc, xviii. p. 655 



(1907). 



Head and thorax white mixed with dark brown ; tarsi brown ringed 

 with white ; abdomen brown, ventrally white. Pore wing white 

 thickly irrorated with brown and faintly tinged with yellow on. 

 costal area ; subbasal line double, excurved at median nervure and 

 ending at vein 1, a brown band on its outer edge produced above 

 and below median nervure to the double obliqtie sinuous ante- 

 medial line excurved in cell ; an ill-defined white discoidal lunule ; 

 post medial line dotible filled in with white, slightly bent outwards 

 below costa and excurved at vein 6, incurved below vein 4, the 

 inner line minutely waved, some small blackish spots beyond it on 

 costa ; subtermiual line whitish defined on each side by brown 

 suifusion, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a puncliform black 

 terminal line ; cilia j'ellowish white chequered with pale brown at 

 base. Hind wing brown, the basal and inner areas white. 



Hah. Assam (Badgley), 2 $ ; Ceylon, Dickoya {Green), 2 c?, 

 1 $ type. Exp. 24 millim. 



6555. Sarrothripus aroa. (Plate CLXXXI. fig. 15.) 



Sarrothripa aroa, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 224 (1906). 



Head and thorax silvery white variegated with fuscous; palpi 

 black above and at extremity of 2nd joint ; teguloe with blackish 

 patches, the patagia with black bands at middle and tips, the meta- 

 thoracic crest tipped with black ; pectus and legs white suffused in 

 parts with brown, the fore femora and tibiae blackish on inner side ; 

 abdomen silvery fuscous, the extremity blackish, the ventral surface 

 whitish. Fore wing silvery white ; a black striga from costa near 

 base followed by a point in cell ; some fuscous suffusion on base of 

 inner margin ; the antemedial area with three very irregulaidy waved 

 black lines, the two outer lines conjoined to a patch on costa ; an 

 oblique striga across end of cell conjoined by some black suffusion 

 to the antemedial line and followed by a discoidal striga and short 

 streak from upper angle of cell to postmedial line ; some black 

 suffusion on inner area before and beyond the postmedialline, which. 

 is double with black patch at costa, slightly bent outwards below 

 costa, angled outwards above vein 6, then irregularly waved and 

 incurved below vein 4 ; stibterminal line excurved at vein 6 and 

 angled inwards at discal and subraedian folds, foUow^ed by a minutely 

 waved fuscous subterminal line bent outwards to apex and ending at 



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