EUGOA. 545 



Padenia trifasciata, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 534. pi. 211. f. 14 (1887); 



Kirby, Cat. Her. p. 295. 

 Padenia basipimota, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 49, pL 139. f. 8 (1891) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 296. 

 Paidia bipuncta, Heyl. C.R. Soc. Bnt. Beige, xssv. p. 414 (1891), $ ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 916. 



Head and thorax yellowish irrorated with fuscous, and with patches 

 of black on vertex of head, tegulae, and patagia ; palpi black at sides ; 

 abdomen yellowish, with dorsal and lateral series of obscure fuscous 

 spots. Pore wing grey, strongly irrorated with fuscous ; a black 

 spot below base of cell and blackish patch on base of costa ; an 

 oblique antemedial line expanding towards costa ; two obliquely 

 placed black points in lower end of cell and on discocellulars ; an 

 oblique slightly sinuous postmedial line angled in submedian fold, 

 then oblique to inner margin, some 

 diffused fuscous on its outer side ; a 

 minutely dentate subterminal line 

 strongly angled inwards above veins 5 

 and 2. Hind wing pale yellow, tinged 

 with fuscous towards apex. 



Ab. 1, haslpuncta. Fore wing less 



. irrorated with fuscous ; the antemedial 



Eugoa Upunctata, S- \. ^^""^ ™°':*' ^innoM^ and diffused, the post- 



(From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) medial incurved below costa and with 



more dark suffusion beyond it; hind wing 



with more fuscous suffusion, — Nilgiris, Ceylon, Sandakan. 



Ab. 2. trifasciata, Moore. Pore wing whitish with hardly any 

 fuscous suffusion ; the antemedial line expanding at costa and in 

 submedian fold ; the postmedial line expanding on costal and inner 

 areas. — Ceylon. 



Hah. Assam ; Nilgiris (Hampson), 2 § , type basipuncta ; Ceylon, 

 Wattagama {Green), 1 5, type trifasciata, Puttalam (Pole), 1 c? ; 

 BiTRMA ; Sumatra, type f trifasciata in Coll. Snellen ; Borneo, 

 Sandakan {Pryer), 2 $ ; Sarawak ( Wallace), 1 c? , 1 2 ; Java, 

 Preanger; Amboina. Exp. 22-28 millim. Type t in Mus. Oxon. 



1165. Eugoa africana, n. sp. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 2.) 



S . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with brown ; palpi black 

 at base ; vertex of head with y-shaped black mark ; patagia and 

 metathorax with black spots ; fore coxae black in front ; abdomen 

 orange-yellow. Pore wing ochreous tinged with brown ; the costal 

 edge black towards base ; a black spot below base of cell and a short 

 subbasal bar from costa ; an oblique antemedial maculate line from 

 costa to submedian fold ; two obliquely placed points in lower end 

 of cell and on discocellulars ; short oblique postmedial bars from 

 costa and inner margin, the latter with two points above it ; three 

 obliquely placed points from costa near apex ; two medial sub- 

 terminal points and one near tornus ; a series of points on the 

 cilia. Hind wing orange-yellow. 



Hah. Cape Colony, Grahamstown {Miss F. Barrett), 1 S type. 

 Exp. 22 millim. 



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