STICTOTHEIPA, 451 



hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, tlie termen 

 evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and o from near angle of cell ; 9 and 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long areole, 7 from end of areole ; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 5 fully developed from 

 just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 typically anastomosing with the 

 cell to near middle. 



Sect. I. Palpi with the 3rd joint long and porrect ; hind wing with vein 8 

 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. 



6801. Stictothripa grisella. 



Thalpochares grisella, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. 162 (1904). 



5 . Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; pectus, legs, and 

 abdomen grey tinged with brown. Fore wing grey-white tinged 

 with red-brown except on terminal area and irrorated with a few 

 black scales, the costal edges browoish on basal half; antemedial 

 line blackish and inwardly oblique from costa to middle of cell, 

 double below the cell and slightly angled inwards on vein \ ; 

 orbicular represented by a black point, the reniform by a faint 



Fig. 163. — Stictothripa grisella, 5 • t- 



whitish bar with whitish patch above it on costa defined on outer 

 side by an oblique brown shade crossing the postmedial line, which 

 is black slightly angled inwards below costa, then represented by 

 a series of small black spots and a lunule in submedian interspace, 

 ex curved to vein 3, then incurved ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 red-brown, slightly incurved at discal fold and crossed by two short 

 black streaks above tornus ; a series of black points just before 

 termen from apex to the streaks above tornus. Hind wing greyish 

 suffused with brown. Underside of both wings suffused with red- 

 brown. 



Hah. Venezuela, Aroa, 1 5 • Exp. 20 millim. Type t ?. in 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. 



Sect. II. Palpi with the 3rd joint short and upturned, antennte of male 

 minutely serrate and fasciculate ; hind wing with vein 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing without yellow suffusion beyond the cell alhescens. 



B. Fore wing with the yellow suffusion beyond the cell delaia, 



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