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XII. On a new genus and species of Noctuidae from 

 Britain. By Sir George F. Hampson, Bart., 

 F.Z.S., etc. 



[Read October 6, 1909.] 



Plate XVI. 



Genus Peucephila, nov. 



Type, P. essoni. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the second 

 joint extending to about middle of Irons and fringed with long hair 

 in front, the third short ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round, strongly 

 hairy, not overhung by cilia ; antennae of female ciliated ; head and 

 thorax thickly clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the prothorax 

 with large, sharp, triangular crest ; the metathorax with spreading 

 crest ; tibiae fringed with hair above and without spines ; abdomen 

 with dorsal series of hairy crests. Fore-wing with the apex rect- 

 angular, the termen evenly curved, crenulate ; veins, .3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind-wing with veins 

 3-4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

 6"7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Peucephila essoni, sp, n. 



5. Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown; antennae 

 whitish ; abdomen flesh-pink, greyish at base, the crests dark brown 

 mixed with grey ; palpi, pectus, and ventral surface of abdomen 

 flesh-pink; legs brownish ochreous, the tarsi with fuscous bands. 

 Fore-wing flesh-pink tinged with brown, the costal area suffused 

 with grey- white leaving the costal edge jiinkish, the veins streaked 

 with grey-white, tlie terminal area whitish with pinkish patches in 

 the interspaces, especiallj' towards apex ; traces of a waved brown 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; ante-medial line blackish 

 at costa, then indistinct, brown, oblique, sinuous; claviform small, 

 blackish filled in with grey scales ; orbicular and reniform grey- 

 white defined by blackish, incompletely above and below, the former 

 small, round, the latter somewhat quadrate and with some flesh - 

 colour in its upper part; traces of a sinuous dark medial line 



TRANS. ENT. SOC. LONP, 1909. — PART IV. (DEC.) 



