THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[SEVENTH SERIES.] 



No. 96. DECEMBER 1905. 



LXVr. — Descriptions of neio Species of Noctuidre m t/ie 

 British Museum. By Sir George F. Hampson, Bart., 

 P.Z.S., &c. 



[Coucluded from p. 549.] 



Genus El^eognatha, nov. 



Type E. argyritis. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi slender, the second joint reaching 

 vertex of head and with tuft of hair on inner side at 

 extremity, the third long and somewhat dilated at extremity ; 

 frons smoothj rounded; eyes large; antenna3 of female 

 laminate ; head and thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the 

 pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; fore tibiae 

 fringed with long hair on outer side ; abdomen with dorsal 

 crest at base and slight subdorsal tufts of hair. Fore wing- 

 elongate, the inner margin strongly arched, the apex rounded 

 and the termen obliquely curved ; vein 2 from middle of 

 cell, curved at base ; 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; G 

 from upper angle or from areole, which is rather long and 

 formed by 9 from 10 anastomosing with 7, 8 ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3 and 5 stalked, 4 absent ; G, 7 stalked ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell to near exti'emity. 



Elaognatha argyritis, sp. u. 



? . Head and thorax silvery white ; palpi with the second 

 joint dark brown at sides ; tips of tegulse and patagia dark 

 Ann. ct- Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. xvi. iiS 



