31 1 NOCTUIDvF. 



5481. Corgatha straminea. 

 Tseudephyra straminea, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 422, pi. x. f. 10. 



Head and thorax yellowish -white, the palpi, antennae, and legs 

 yellower; abdomen yellowish white at base, then black-brown, the 

 anal tuft and ventral surface yellowish white. Fore wing pale 

 yellow; bbe basal area suffused with black-brown and irrorated 

 with silver, its outer edge curved ; a black point in middle of cell 

 and small discoidal lunule with some silvery scales on them ; post* 

 medial area black-brown, its inner edge incurved at discal fold, 

 excurved beyond lower angle, then incurved, its outer edge excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle, then incurved, a silvery postmedial 

 line excurved at middle, then incurved ; the termeu yellowish 

 irrorated with black-brown. Hind wing pale yellow, the base 

 suffused with black-brown; a black discoidal point ; the terminal 

 area broadly black-brown with the curved silvery postmedial line 

 on it and the termen irrorated with silver : cilia yellow mixed with 

 black-brown ; the underside yellowish white, the terminal area 

 black-brown, a black discoidal point. 



Hab. Queensland, Teak Downs, 1 3 , 1 $ type. Exp. 20 millim. 



Genus COBUBATHA. „ 



Type. 



Cobuhatha, Wlk. xxvii. 126(1863) metaspilaris. 



Tripudia, Grote, Can. Ent. ix. p. 70 (1877) quadrifera. 



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

 middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes 

 large, round: antenna? of male somewhat laminate and minutely ciliated; 

 thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, tlie 

 mesothorax with slight paired crests, the metathorax with depressed crest; 

 tihia> slightly fringed with hair; abdomen with crests on basal segments, the- 

 crest on 2nd segment typically large. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the 

 termen slightly excurved at middle and oblique towards tornus, not crenulate: 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from below upper angle; 7 from 

 angle; 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 1 1 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle 

 of cell ; 5 nearly fully developed from above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the medial area chocolate-red hippotes. 



1>. Fore wing with the medial area not chocolate-red. 

 a. Fore wing with black-brown patch on inner medial area. 

 a 1 . Fore wing with the patch on inner medial area rounded 

 above. 

 a-. Fore wing with, the patch on inner medial area broad, 



its outer edge not excised towards inner margin . id /era. 

 It. Fore wing with the patch on inner medial area 

 narrower, its outer edge excised towards inner 



margin hi rasa. 



/''. Fore wing with the patch on inner medial area trian- 

 gular metaspilaris. 



i •'. Fore wing with the patch on inner medial area trun- 

 cate conical. 

 I ore wing with black-brown patches on termen at 



cal and subinedian folds numa. 



