444 On new Genera and Species of XoctuifLe. 



yellow terminal baud iudeuted by a piuk tooth runuiiig 

 out to termen at veiu 3; cilia yellow. 



Hub. Bk. N. Guinea, Milne 'Bay (3/ee^),l ? type. Exp. 

 18 mm. 



Genus Eugatha, nov. 

 Type, E. thermochroa. 



Proboscisratherslight; palpi with the second joint obliquely 

 porrect and broadly fringed with hair above, the third sLort, 

 porrect; frons smooth, with tuft of hair; eyes large, round ; 

 ^antenuse of male somewhat laminate and almost simpK" ; 

 thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the metathorax 

 ^vith depressed crest ; tibise fringed with long hair ; abdo- 

 tmen with large basal crest. Fore wing Mith the aj)ex 

 'rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; 

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

 ^ from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 fi'om angle of cell ; 

 5 nearly fully developed from well above angle ; G, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



5429 a. Eugatha thermochroa, sp. n. 



S . Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with red-brown ; 

 antennae with the basal joint whitish in front ; abdomen 

 rufous, the sides and ventral surface towards base whitish, 

 the basal crest red-brown. Fore wing bright rufous sliglitly 

 irrorated with red-browji, the terminal area tinged with 

 purplish, the termen violaceous white, the veins streaked 

 with red-brown ; a slight waved red-brawn subba^al line 

 from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double, red-brown, 

 angled outwards to near upper angle of cell, then ol)lique ; 

 a rather dilfuscd blackish spot at lower angle of cell with an 

 oblique red-brown line from it to inner margin ; postmcdial 

 line double, red-brown, oblique from costa to veiu G, slightly 

 incurved at discal fold, oblique below vein 4 ; some choeolate- 

 browu on costa before the oblique red-brown subterminul 

 line which is slightly excurved at middle ; a series of black- 

 brown sti ire just before termen. Hind wing creamy-white, 

 the terminal area sutfused with red-brown ; cilia white 

 tinged with rufous; the under.-ide with the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with rufous, a red-brown discoidal 

 spot, curved postmcdial line and tine terminal line. 



Hub. Dutch N. Guinea, Fnk-fak {Pra(i), 1 J type. 

 £xp. 22 mm. 



