286 NOCTUID.35. 



with rufous and irrorated with brown ; the costal edge fuscous 

 towards base ; antemodial line represented by a very oblique 

 black striga from costa near middle and a curved line nearer the 

 base from subcostal nervure to inner margin ; reniform strongly 

 defined by black-brown ; postmedial line black-brown, very 

 strongly excurved below costa and oblique below vein 4, some 

 alternating black-brown and whitish streaks beyond it on costa; 

 the termen suffused with brown from below apex to vein 4, then 

 with indistinct wedge-shaped brown marks ; a terminal series of 

 black stria) defined on inner side by white and a small spot just 



Fig. 87 ' . — Ectrogatha himcrata, J. |. 



below apex. Hind wing whitish suffused with rufous and irrorated 

 with brown ; discoidal spot defined by dark brown, elliptical ; 

 postmedial line dark brown, slightly excurved ; the termen suffused 

 with red-brown; a terminal series of black striae defined on inner 

 side by white ; the underside whitish suffused with bright rufous, 

 the discoidal spot distinct, the postmedial line crenulate and 

 strongly curved. 



Hah. Brazil, Amazons, Obydos (Austen), 1 J , Ega (Bates), 

 1 cJ,l J type. Eicp. 22 millim. 



Genus CORGATHA. 



Type. 



Corgatha. Wlk. xvi. 215 (1858) zonalis. 



Palara, Wlk. xxiv. 1090 (1862) implexata. 



Sophia, Wlk. xxvi. 1758 (1862) concavata. 



Ausinza, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 192 (1864). aqua. 



Zitna, Wlk. xxxiv. 1276 (1865) albicinctalis. 



Nacerasa, Wlk. xxxv. 1570(1866) concavata. 



Pseudephyra, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 422 straminea. 



Celeopsyche, Butl. III. Het. B. M. iii. p. 68 (1879) nitens. 



Callipyris, Meyr. Tr. R. Soc. S. Austr. xiv. p. 195(1891). drosera. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect, extending about the 

 length of head, the 2nd joint friuged with hair above towards extremity, the 

 3rd short ; frons smooth, with tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round ; antenna; 

 of male ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without 

 crests ; tibiae typically moderately fringed with hair, tbe spurs long ; abdomen 

 without crests. Fore wing with the apex slightly produced and acute, the 

 termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; vein 3 from well before angle of 

 cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 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 below middle of discocellulars ; 

 I), 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



