288 



NOCTUIDJE. 



ridge of blackish scales, the postraerlial area with a golden gloss 

 between veins 6 and 1 ; antemedial line indistinctly double, 

 blackish, strongly excurved ; renit'orra denned by black, its outer 

 edge produced to a point ; traces of a sinuous medial line ; post- 

 medial line blackish, obliquely curved outsvards from costa to 



Fig. 100. — Clettliarina 7iifens, (J. \, 



vein 6, excurved to vein 4, then bent inwards and dentate ; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, whitish defined on inner side by blackish 

 poirifs, dentate at veins 7, 6 ; a terminal series of black striae. 

 Hind wing silvery grey, the patch of androconia on terminal area 

 between lower angle of cell and tornus chalky white; the under- 

 side silvery gre}' with the inner area white. 



fTah. Burma, E. Pegu {Doherty), type f J iQ Coll, E-othschild. 

 Exj). 30 millim. 



Genus LAMPROTHRIPA, nov. 



Typp, L. scotia. 



Proboscis fuUj developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate; frons smoDtli, with tuft of 

 hair above ; eyes large, round ; antrnnae of male almost simple ; thoi-axclotlied 

 ahuost entirely with scales, the metathoras with depressed crest; fore tibiae 

 fringed on both sides with long hair, the mid and iiind tibite moderately 

 fringed with hair ; abdomen witii dorsal crests on two basal segments. Fore 

 wing with the costa bighly arched near base, the apes rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 

 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long areole ; 11 

 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 fully developed 

 from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



Sect. I. Fore wing of male with small hyaline fovea at upper angle of cell. 



*65 79. Lamprothripa lactaria. 



Nola lactaria, Grses. Berl. ent. Zeit. xxxviii. p. 211 (1892); Staud. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 360. 

 Asindiima korbi, Pihig. Iris, xxi. p. 302, pi. iv. f. 29 (1908). 



c^ . Head and thorax pure white with diffused olive-fuscous 

 patches on pro- and metathorax ; palpi and frons black-bi'own ; 

 antennae brown except at base ; legs brown, the tarsi ringed with 

 white ; abdomen white tinged with brown leaving white segmental 

 bands. Fore wing silvery white on costa to before middle, the 



