natural, history

lind: Illfi lIS,/. The aberrational name riridisujlusa Strand (1917, Arch. Naturgesch.,82 (A 1): 82) becomes a synonym. The type is in the British Museum.Ab. 2, based on a ma"ie and a female from Singapore, also proved to be a distinctspecies when the genitalia (Figs. 38-40) were examined; for this I propose the nameMniothripa argenteopurpurea. The aberrational name argenteopurpurea Strand (1917,Arch. Naturgesch., 82 (A I): 82) becomes a synonym. The type is in the British Museum.Symitba indicatana ferrugana subsp.n.Rennell!., Hutuna, 30. x-2. xi. 1953, (J.D. BRADLEY), 2 ¥ including holotype.Differs from other subspecies of indicatana Walker (1863) in the colour of the thoraxand fore wing.In the nominate subspecies from Ceylon the ground colour of the fore wing is aclean white in the basal and median areas and the fuscous black pattern is sharplydefined.In i. microdonta Hampson (1912) from Singapore the ground colour of the forewing is tilleul buff and the fuscous pattern is considerably less well contrasted.In i. panella Walker (1866) from Java the fore wing is suffused with smoke greyand the pattern tends to merge into the ground colour.In i.ferrugana the white ground colour is lightly irrorate with cinnamon, giving apinkish appearance to the wing; the thorax and pattern are marked with mikadobrown and cinnamon.Giaura tetragramma (Hampson)Darasa tetragramma Hampson, ]905, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (7) 16: 549.Giaura oba/auae B. Baker, 1927, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (9) 20: 324. Syn. nov.Hutuna,2 'jJ.Distribution: Fiji.The genitalia of the unique female type of Barasa nigrilineata Wileman & West (1929,Novit. zool" 35: 18), from Luzon in the Philippine Is., are identical with those ofG. tetragramma; until male specimens from the Philippines can be examined, however,the species are better kept separate.Gadirtba muscosa sp.n. (Figs. 44, 73)Rennelll., Hutuna, ]4-31. x. 1953, (J.D.BRADLEY), I ¥ holotype.¥ 33 mm. Palpus three times as long as the diameter of the eye, pale pinkish buff, theupper surface of the first segment and the tip of the third fuscous. Thorax and abdomenpale pinkish buff irrorate with snuff brown and fuscous, the meta thorax bearing adense tuft of long snuff brown scales. Fore wing pale pinkish buff suffused with paleolive buff. The basal third of the wing, anterior of vein A 1, is suffused with snuffbrown; at two-thirds of the inner margin, posterior of the submedian fold, therz is ~n44