444 On new Genera and Species of Noctuklye. 



yellow terminal band indented by a pink tooth running 

 out to termen at vein 3 ; cilia yellow. 



Hnh. Br. N. Guinea, Milne Bay (M6'eA;),l ? type. Exp. 

 18 mm. 



Genus Eugatha, nov. 

 Type, E, therniochroa, 



Proboscisrather slight; palpi with the second joint obliquely 

 porrect and broadly fringed with hair above, the third short, 

 porrect; frons smooth, with tuft of hair; eyes large, round ; 

 antennse of male somewhat laminate and almost simple ; 

 thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the metathorax 

 ■with depressed crest ; tibise fringed with long hair ; abdo- 

 men with large basal crest. Fore wing with the apex 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved and not 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 nearly fully developed from well above angle ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



5429 a. Eagatlia thermochroa, sp. n. 



c? . Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with red-brown ; 

 antennae with the basal joint whitish in front ; abdomen 

 rufous, the sides and ventral surface towards base whitish, 

 the basal crest red-biown. Fore wing bright rufous slightly 

 irrorated with red-brown, the terminal area tinged with 

 purplish, the termen violaceous white, the veins streaked 

 with red-brown ; a slight waved red-brown subbasal line 

 from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double, red-brown, 

 angled outwards to near upper angle of cell, then oblique; 

 a rather diffused blackish spot at lower angle of cell with an 

 oblique red-brown line from it to inner margin ; postmedial 

 line double, red-brown, oblique from costa to vein 6, slightly 

 incurved at discal fold, oblique below vein 4 ; some chocolate- 

 brown on costa before the oblique red-brown subterminal 

 line which is slightly excurved at middle ; a series of black- 

 brown strise just before termen. Hind wing creamy-white, 

 the terminal area suffused with red-brown ; cilia white 

 tinged with rufous; the underside with the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with rufous, a red-brown discoidal 

 spot, curved postmedial line and fine terminal line. 



Hab. Dutch N. Guinea, Fak-fak {Pratt), 1 <$ type. 

 Uxp. 22 mm. 



