3L8 NOCTUID^. 



6622, Oclirothripa leptocliroma. 



Crioa leptocliroma. Turner, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. xxvii. p. 96 (1902). 



5 . Head and thorax white mixed with some pale red-brown and 

 fuscous ; palpi blackish at sides towards base ; tibiae banded with 

 fuscous ; abdomen pale j-ellow. Fore wing white tinged in parts 

 with pale red-brown and irrorated with brown, the veins of 

 terminal half with slight dark streaks ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 brown, strongly excurved below median ncrvure; a point of raised 

 dark scales in middle of cell and discoidal tuft with curved line 

 before it forming part of a discoidal annulus ; medial line very 

 indistinct, strongly excurved round end of cell; postmedial line 

 indistinctly double, bent outwards below costa, then minutely 

 waved, oblique to discal fold, then inwardly oblique, the costal edge 



Fig. 112. — Oclirothripa leptocliroma, $. \. 



beyond it brown with some white points on it; subterminal line 

 indistinct, wliite, waved, defined on inner side by a series of rufous 

 spots. Hind wing pale yellow with terminal brown band, broad at 

 costa, narrowing to tornus, with white and brown points just 

 before it at vein 1 ; cilia yellowish. 



Hah. QuERNSLAND, Brisbane {Lucas), 1 $ , Gympie {Turner), 

 1 5> . Exp. 30 millim. Type t $ in Coll. Turner. 



Genus PH.ffiOTHEIPA, nov. 



Type, P. morena. 



Proboscis fully developecl ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex of 

 head and slightly fringed with hair behind towards extremity, the 3rd short, 

 blunt ; Irons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male almost simple ; 

 thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; fore tibiiE 

 fringed with long hair on outer side, the mid and hind tibias smoothly scaled ; 

 abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the costa highly 

 arched towards base, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not 

 crenulate ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; 6 from 

 below upper angle; 7 from angle ; 8, 9, 10 very strongly stalked ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with vein 3 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 shortly stalked ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 9 anastomosing with the cell to middle. 



6623. Phaeothripa morena. 



Sarrothripa, morena, Sw'mh. A. M. N. H. (7) vii. p. 490 (1901). 



Head and thorax fuscous brown tinged with grey, thorax 

 varying to whitish or ochreous brown ; palpi white, the 2nd joint 



