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TATHQTHRIPA; CRYPTOTHRIPA; BRYOPHILOPSIS. By M. Gaede. 
virens Mr. Forewing pale olive brown, whitish in the median area. This form and the 20th form with the spot 
of spurata. — 22. Besides there are white spots at the base, in the reniform macula, at the apex and below it 
albivUta. and in the submedian fold. — 23. albivitta Wkr. Forewing with a faded white band from the costal margin 
near the base bent downward, then bent upward to the exterior line behind the cell. — 24. Forewing with a 
albotecta. broad white median band, the inside obliquely inward, outside a band branches off to the anal angle. — 25. albo- 
rudivUta. tecta Wkr. (37 f). Forewing white, with a broad red-brown costal margin. — 26. rudivitta Wkr. (37 d). Fore¬ 
wing ochreous, with a blackish interior band, from the middle of which another band branches off to the middle 
of the distal margin. — 27. Forewing with an oblique blackish band from the inner margin at the interior line 
lata, to the anal angle with a branch from the lower cell-angle straight to the distal margin. — 28. lata Wkr. Fore¬ 
wing with brown streaks behind the centre of the cell, at the base of veins 3, 2 and 1. — 29. The same, but 
the streaks black. — 30. Forewing with a red-brown band below the cell and straight to the distal margin. — 
30 mm. Rather common in Ceylon, the larva on coffee. As may be seen from our numerous figures with quite 
different colourings and markings many other forms of this polymorphous species might be separated and 
denominated. 
24. Genus: Tathothripsi Hmps. 
The typical species is similar to the preceding one. Distinguished by thin palpi, less hairy legs, strong 
dorsal tufts in the <$. Vein 8 of hindwing branches off near the base. Type: continua Wkr. 
continua. T. continua Wkr. (= leucorhiza Fldr.) (37 g). Forewing blackish brown with a lilac lustre, broadly white 
at the inner margin, sometimes parted in the middle. Transverse lines not discernible. Hindwing dark brown. 
dcjlexa. — In addition 3 forms: 1. deflexa Wkr. (37 g). The white spot at the inner margin much shorter, somewhat 
subdeflexa. yellowish. — 2. subdeflexa Strd. Similar to deflexa, but almost the whole spot is filled with the ground-colour, 
includens. only the margin remains white. Both the forms only known as $. — 3. includens Wkr. (37 f) is similar to the 
2nd form, but a streak extends from the exterior margin of the white spot at vein 1 to the margin of the wing 
at vein 3, and one to the centre of vein 3, besides another one to the distal angle. — 23—26 mm. Malacca, 
Borneo, New Guinea. 
abbreviata. T. abbreviata Warr. is similar to continua (37 g), but the white area at the inner margin is cut off close 
behind the indentation which is situate close behind the middle of the inner margin, not before the middle. 
Both wings darker than in continua. 24 mm. I S known from New Guinea. 
nigricristaia. T. nigricristafa Warr. The white interior area as in abbreviata, interrupted behind the indentation which 
is situate before the middle as in continua. The dark transverse lines are well visible in the light inner margin. 
inversa. Hindwing blackish. — In inversa S Warr. only the base of the forewing is white, as in the form deflexa $. It 
is, however, surely a <$. The abdomen is somewhat less extremely long than in the two other species. New Guinea. 
25. Genus: Cryptothripa Fmys, 
Separated from the preceding genus by long-ciliated antennae of the and the anterior tibiae being 
broadly haired in front and behind. Beside the typical species occulta Sivh. from India there is also an African 
species, C. polyhymnia. Cf. Vol. 15, pi. 17 h. 
occulta. C. occulta Sivh. Forewing reddish brown, with a black streak at the base of vein 1. Interior line indistinct, 
undulate, inward. A tuft of black scales in the middle of the cell, reniform macula edged with brown, round, 
inside with black scales. Exterior line brown, oblique as far as vein 6, then parallel to the margin, strongly 
inward below 2. A black streak outward above the inner margin. Submarginal line whitish, indistinct. Hind¬ 
wing smoky brown, lighter at the base. 28 mm. India and Ceylon. 
26. Genus: Bryopliilopsis Hmps. 
The genus has already been dealt with in Vol. 15, p. 185. Only 2 species occur in the Indian Region, 
among them the type: griseata Hmps. 
orientalis. B. orientalis Hmps. has exceptionally a hair-pencil on the femora of the first and second pair of legs 
in the £. Fore wing brownish white, the marginal area down as far as vein 3 darker. The median area with a 
red-brown band in the submedian fold and a black streak. Interior line black, oblique as far as the submedian 
fold, then vertical. Reniform macula yellowish, edged with brown and white. Exterior line double, filled with 
white, excurved behind the cell, steeper towards the inner margin. Submarginal line of white spots. Hindwing 
brown, lighter at the base. 22 mm. 1 S from the quite isolated Christmas I. 
griseata. B. griseata Hmps. Forewing greyish brown, browner at the margin. Median area blackish as far as 
the submedian fold in which there is a black streak. Interior line black, oblique, undulate, straight. Reniform 
macula reddish with a white ring. Exterior line indistinctly double, filled with light, somewhat extra-angular 
below the costal margin, then straight, undulate, inward. Submarginal line black, notched, extra-angular in 
punjabi. the middle. Hindwing whitish, brownish at the margin. — In punjabi Strd. the median area of the forewing 
is blackish. 26 mm. Punjab. 
