310 HOCTUIDiE. 



Hah. Bombay, ] S , 'P oou a (SivinJioe),! $ type ; Madras, Belgaum 

 (Waison), 1 d , Gooty {Canq'bell), 1 d' ; Ceylojn {IlacJcwood), 1 $ . 

 E.VJ). 30 millim. 



6610. Cryptothripa polyhymnia. (Plate CLXXXIL fig. 22.) 



Tlotheia poljjhymnia , Huipsn. Ann- S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 311 (1902). 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown ; fore and mid tibiae 

 and tarsi banded with black; abdomen with the dorsal crest black. 

 Fore Aving grey -brown suffused with reddish brown and with some 

 dark irroration ; a minute black streak above base of vein 1 and 

 a diffused black fascia above median nervure and from end of cell 

 above discal fold to subterminal line where it is met by an oblique 

 fascia from apex ; an indistinct waved antemedial line ; an annulus 

 in middle of cell and larger discoidal annulus defined by brown and 

 with tufts of brown scales in centre ; postraedial line indistinct, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, then sinuous, excurved to vein 

 4, then oblique ; the oblique fascia from apex dehned by whitish 

 suffusion above ; subterminal line indistinct, whitish, waved, 

 incurved below vein 3, the interspaces beyond it with slight black 

 streaks. Hind wing whitish suffused with brownish ochreous. 



Ab. 1. Pore wing with the black fascia reduced to a patch on 

 median nervure before end of cell. 



Ab. 2. Pore wing with the black fascia absent. 



Hah. Natal, Durban [Leigh), 3 $ type ; Capk Colony, Annshaw 

 {Miss F. Barrett), 1 $ . Hay. 34-36 millim. 



Genus BRYOTHRIPA, nov. 



Type, B. miophcea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to rertex 

 of liead and rather slenderly scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth, with tuft, 

 of hair above; eyes large, round; antennae of male almost simple ; thorax 

 clothed aln.ost entirely with scales, the metathorax with depressed crest ; tibiaj 

 smoothly scaled ; abdomen with dorsal series of crests. Fore wing with the 

 apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not creuulate; vein 3 from before 

 angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle , 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to forui a long areole ; 11 froui cell. Hiud wing with veins 3, 4 from 

 angle of cell ; 5 fully developed from above angle ; G, 7 from upper an^le ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. 



6611. Bryothripa miophaea, n. sp. 



Head and thorax sai)-green mixed with black ; abdomen grey 

 suffused with fuscous, the crests black ; pectus, legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen ochreous white with a few dark scales. Fore 

 wing sap-green irrorated with black ; an oblique black fascia from 

 base of costa to inner margin at vein 1 where it is connected with 

 a diffused fascia above inner margin extending to subterminal line ; 

 a subbasal black striga from costa: antemedial line blackish. 



