28 \ NOCTUID.E. 



termen excised below apex ami excurved at middle, not crenulate; veins 3 and 

 . r ) from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9, 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole ; 1 1 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 

 5 al nost fully developed from below middle of di^cocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



5427. Trogatha pcecilota. 

 Corgatha poecilota, Turner, Tr. R Soc. S. Austr. xxxii, p. 66 (1908). 



<S . Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish tinged with flesh colour, 

 the last dorsally slightly suffused with red. .Fore wing flesh colour 

 sparsely irrorated with black-brown scales ; a black point in cell 

 near base and a small spot in cell before the antemedial line, which 

 is indistinctly double filled in with white, with slight black streak 

 above it ou costa, excurved below costa, then oblique ; three black 

 discoidal points ; postmedial line indistinctly double filled in with 

 white, some blackish on its inner edge towards costa, excurved from 

 costa to vein 5, then incurved, some slight brown streaks beyond it 

 oa costa ; a subtermiual series of blackish points with faint whitish 



Fig. 85. — Trogatha poecilota, rf . 



a- 



marks beyond them, excurved at middle, then incurved; the 

 terminal area rather redder except at apex and with a series of 

 black points before termen, excurved at middle. Hind wing with 

 the costal half fiery red, the inner half flesh colour tinged with 

 dull red and sparsely irrorated with black ; a white discoidal spot 

 with two black points on it; postmedial line indistinctly double 

 filled in with white, incurved below vein 4; faint traces of a pale 

 minutely waved subterminal line; a series of dark points before 

 termen ; the underside flesh colour tinged with red, a blackish 

 discoidal bar and sinuous brown postmedial line. 



Hub. Queensland, Kuranda (Dodd), 1 J . Exp. 20-24 millira. 

 Type f in Coll. Lyell. 



Genus CAUTATHA, nov. 



Type, C. phoenicea. 



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

 vertex of head and slightly fringed with scales behind towards extremity, the 

 3rd short; frons with rather pointed conical prominence; eyes large, round ; 

 antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and 

 without crests; tibia? slightly fringed with hair; abdomen without crests. 

 Fore wing with the apex produced and falcate, the termen evenly curved, not 

 crenulate; vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 5 from just above angle; H 

 from upper angle ; 9, 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. 



