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5481. Corgatha straminea. 



Fseudephyra straminea, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 422, pi. s. 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 ; the 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. 



Hah. Queensland, Peak Downs, 1 c? , 1 $ type, Exp. 20 millim. 



GeniTS COBUBATHA. 



Type. 



Cohuhatha,W\k. XTiTin. 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 

 Inrge, round; antennae of male somewhat laminate and minutely ciliated; 

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

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

 tibiffi 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 ; 11 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. 



B. Fore wing with the medial area not chocolate-red. 



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

 a'. 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 . idicra. 

 b^. Fore wing with the patch on inner medial area 

 narrower, its outer edge excised towards inner 



margi n hirasa. 



h^. Fore wing with the patch on inner medial area trian- 

 gular metaspilaris. 



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

 cate conical. 

 a". Fore wing with black-brown patches on termen at 



discal and submedian folds numa. 



