CRYPXOTHEIPA. 309 



Genus CRYPTOTHRIPA, nov. 



Type, C. occulta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2iid joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and rather slenderly scaled, the 3rd very long and somewhat dilated 

 at extremity; frons smooth, with tuft of hair above; eyes large, round; 

 antennae of male with fascicles of long cilia; thorax clothed almost entirely 

 with scales, the metathorax with large depressed crest; fore tibite broadly 

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

 with hair; abdomen with dorsal series of cres^s. Fore wing with the apex 

 I'onuded, the termen evenly curved and slightly erennlate ; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the long areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle 

 of cell; 5 fully developed from above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with black streak beyond postmedial line in 



Bubinedian fold occulta. 



B. Pore wing without black sti'eak beyond postmedial line 



in submediau fold polyhymnia. 



6609. Cryptothripa occulta. 



Sdeim occulta, Swinh. P.Z.S. 1835, p. 461, pi. 27. f. 11 ; Huipsn. Moths 

 Ind. ii. p. 381. 



Head and thorax brown mixed with, grey; palpi with the 2nd 

 joint whitish with black streak at sides ; pectus whitish ; abdomen 

 grey mixed with fuscous brown, the crests blackish. Fore wing- 

 reddish brown mixed with whitish and irrorated with a few black 

 scales ; an oblique black streak from base of costa along vein 1 ; 

 antemedial line very indistinct, waved ; a tuft of blackish scales in 



Fig. 108. — Cry2)tothripa occulta, J. f. 



middle of cell; reniform slightly defined by brown, round and with 

 tuft of blackish scales in centre ; postmedial line brown, oblique 

 from costa to vein 6, inwardly obli(]ue below vein 2, with a black 

 streak from it to termen in submedian fold, dentate and defined on 

 outer side by white at vein 1, a white patch irrorated with brown 

 beyond it on costal area, extending to apex and dentate at vein 6 ; 

 a faint minutely waved whitish subterminal line with black streaks 

 beyond it on the veins ; a fine black terminal line and whitish line 

 at base of cilia. Hind wing grey suffused with brown, the terminal 

 area fuscous brown, with a patch of blackish scales at tornus, cilia 

 brownish white except at tornus; the underside paler, a dark 

 discoidal lunule and diffused curved postmedial line. 



