PH^OTnKIPA. MEGATHRIPA. 



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black behind except at extremity, the 3rd bhickish ; abdomen grej'' 

 tinged with brown ; pectus, mid and hind legs, and ventral surface 

 of abdomen white. Fore wing purplish fuscous, darker towards 

 base, a diffused white patch at middle of inner area; faint traces of 



Fig. 113. — Thwoihripa morena , (^ . \. 



a curved antcmedial line ; a point of raised dark scales at middle of 

 cell and two points at discocellulars ; postmedial line formed of 

 minute white striae with minute brown marks before them at vein 

 6 and discal fold, bent outwards below costa and ver}' oblique from 

 discal fold to the patch at middle of inner area ; a subtermiiial 

 series of blackish points, oblique towards costa and below vein 4; 

 a terminal series of blackish points. Hind wing brown. 



Hah. Perak, Goping (KUnstler), 1 5 ; Borneo, Sarawak, 1 $ 

 tj'pe, Ivucliing (SheJford), 2 c5' , Sandakan (Pryer), 1 (S . Exjy. 

 24-28 millim. 



Genus MEGATHRIPA, nov. 



Type, M. rufimedia. 



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

 of frons, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennte of 

 female ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax 

 without crest, the metathorax with divided crest; tibife slightly fringed with 

 liair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved and not ci'enulate ; veins 3 iiud o from near 

 angle of cell ; G from below upper angle ; 7 from angle ; 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 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. 



6G24. Megathripa rufimedia 



Sarrothripa nifimedia, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. iii. p. 429 (1905). 



5 . Head and thorax grey mixed with black ; palpi white in 

 front ; pectus white ; legs ochreous white w-ith some black and 

 brown irroration, the fore tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen 

 brown with ochreous w'hite rings, the basal crest grey and black, 

 the ventral surface white slightly irrorated with brown. Pore wing 

 grey thickly irrorated with brown and black ; subbasal line double, 

 blackish, angled outwards below costa, then oblique ; antemcdial 

 line double, blackish, oblique to median nervure where it is angled 

 outwards, again angled outwards in submediau fold and excurved 



