450 NOCTUIDJ'.. 



Genus MEDAVA. 



Type. 



Medava,MV\k. xx\i\. 113(1863) dlminuens. 



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

 of frons and fringed with hair behind towards extremity, the 3rd short, porrect ; 

 frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed 

 almost entirely with scales and without crests ; fore tibiiB fringed with long 

 hair on outer side, the mid and hind tibio3 moderately fringed with hair; 

 abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the apex rounded, 

 the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 

 pell ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7 from angle ; 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell; 6, 7 from upper angle; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. 



6800. Medava diminuens. 



Medava diminuens, Wlk. xsvii. 113 (1863). 



S. Head, thorax, and aodomen grey mixed Avith dark brown. 

 Pore wing grey irrorated with brown, the antemedial area suffused 

 with dark brown widening to costa, the extreme base white ; 

 subbasal line represented by blackish striae from costa and cell ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, double, waved ; a dark point on middle 

 of costa, slight discoidal point and faint oblique shade from coll to 

 inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct and defined on outer 



Fig. 162. — Medava diminuens, (^ . f. 



side by whitish, with dark point at costa, somewhat oblique to 

 vein 6, incurved at discal fold, then dentate and at vein 3 recurved 

 to lower angle of cell; subterminal line indistinct, whitish, 

 minutely dentate, with dark patch on its inner side at costa and 

 point on outer ; a terminal series of small brown spots defined on 

 inner side by white iunules. Hind wing whitish suffused with 

 brown ; cilia whitish. 



Ilah. Brazil, Amazons, Ega (Bates), 1 J ^ype. Exp. 22 millira. 



Genus STICTOTHRIPA, nov. 



Type, S. grisella. 



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

 middle of fron.s and moderately scaled, the 3rd typically long and porrect ; 

 frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennas of female ciliated ; thorax clothed 

 chiefly with scales, the uietathorax with depi'essed crest ; fore femora and 

 tibi;\3 fringed with long hair, the mid and hind tibia3 moderately fringed with 



