308 Noc'njiB.E. 



three basal segineuts, very long in male. Fore wing with the costa highly arched 

 near base, tlie apex rounded, tlie termen cveuly curved and not creuulale ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 and 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wmg 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. 



6608. Tathothripa continua. 



Ariola continua, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 196 (1862); Swinh. 



Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. 76, pi. ii. f. 11. 

 Ariola includeiis. Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 197 (1862). 

 Ariola deflexa, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 197 (1862) ; Svvinh. Cat. 



Het. Mufi. Oxon. ii. p. 70, pi. ii. f. 20. 

 BryojMla leucorhiza, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 100. f. 12 (1874). 



Head and thorax pure white ; palpi brown ; antenna3 and a bar 

 between their bases brown ; pectus and legs suffused with brown ; 

 abdomen ochreous white, the crests pure white. Fore wing fuscous 

 brown with a greyish tinge, the inner area pure white from base 

 of costa to termen at vein 3, its upper edge with a triangular inden- 

 tation at middle, then slightly sinuous ; small black spots at middle 

 of cell and on discocellulars ; postmedial line indistinct, blachish, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, obsolete 

 on the white area, traces of another diffused dentate line beyond 



Fig. 107. ^Tcdothripa continua, ^. \. 



it ; subterniinal line represented by a series of small dentate black 

 spots, slightly angled outwards below vein 7 and obsolete on the 

 white area ; a terminal series of minute black points and fine pale 

 line at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous brown with a fine whitish 

 line at base of cilia ; the underside pale grey, the costal area and 

 terminal area to vein 3 suffused and irrorated with brown, 



Ab. 1, $ • dffiexa. Fore wing without white on terminal half of 

 inner area, the outer edge of the white obliquly curved from base 

 of costa to middle of inner margin. 



Ab. 2, 2 • Similar but fore wing with the ^-hite on basal half of 

 inner area enclosing a large elliptical black patch. 



Ab. 3, (S . indudens. Similar to ab. 2 but fore wing with curved 

 white streak from the outer edge of the white area at vein 1 to 

 tornus emitting a tooth at middle to vein 3 and a streak to termen 

 at vein 3. 



Hah. Penang (Floiver), 1 cJ , 1 $ ; Bingapoee (Ridley, Wood- 

 Joncn). 16 c?, 6 9 ; Borneo, Sarawak {Wallace, Meade- Waldo). 

 5 c?, 6 $, Kuching (Shelford), 1 c^, 1 $. Exp. 26-28 millim. 

 Type t and types f indudens and dejle.va in Mus. Oxon, 



