niALATll A. — QOENYCTA. 19 



at middle and with black patches at tips ; patagia with black 

 patches on outer edge; pectus and legs black and white, the tarsi 

 slightly ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous, whitish at base, the 

 crests black, the anal tuft white, the ventral surface black with 

 large white patch at middle. Fore wing pure white ; an irregular 

 black fascia below base of cell, arising from costa at base : a 

 subbasal black point on costa followed by a triangular patch; a 

 triangular black patch on middle of costa extending to lower angle 

 of cell and another on inner margin extending to submedian fold; 

 a small postmedial black spot on costa and point on inner margin, 

 a broad black bar from apex to discal fold with white point on 

 costa, rather bifid below and connected with a triangular black 

 patch from termen below apex with black point above it on termen ; 

 a broad oblique black bar from vein 2 to tornus widely forked 

 above ; two black points on termen below middle ; cilia white, 

 black at the black markings. Hind wi'>g fuscous, the inner area 

 whitish ; cilia black from apex to vein 5, then white ; the under- 

 side black, the base white except costal area, the inner area white, 

 its upper edge expanding into a whitish patch beyond middle. 



Hah. Br. N. Guinea, Mt. Kebea (Pratt), type t $ in Coll. 

 Bethune-liaker. Exp. 32 millim. 



Genus GOENYCTA. nov. 



Type, G. niveiguttata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to middle 

 of frons and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short ; frons with 

 rounded prominence with corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antennae 

 of female ciliated ; thorax smoothly clothed with scales only and without 

 crests; tibiae moderately fringed with hair; abdorren with dorsal series of 

 crests, the crests on segments 3, 4, 5 large. Fore wing rather narrow, the 

 margins subparallel, the apex rounded, the termen slightly excurved at middle 

 and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of ceil ; (5 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hiud wing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; ft obsolescent from just below middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 otdy. 



3624. Goenycta niveiguttata. 

 Erastria niveiguttata, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xiv. p. 205 (1902). 



2 . Head white ; palpi black, the extremities of 2nd and 3rd 

 joints white; frons with triangular black patch on lower part with 

 two points above it ; antennae black except basal joint ; thorax 

 black with white patch on metathorax ; pectus and legs white, the 

 fore and mid tibiae and the 1st joint of tarsi banded with black ; 

 abdomen white slightly tinged with fuscous, the crests black. 

 Fore Aving black with irregular Avhite subbasal, antemedial and 

 postmedial patches on costal area with black points on them 

 representing the lines and conical white ante- and postmedial 

 patches on inner margin ; a white point on costa before the post- 

 medial patch and two towards apex ; subterminal line represented 



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