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183. P. bnrica sp. nov. 



<S. Palpi and front dark brown ; antennae black ; collar white, bordered broadly 

 behind with dark brown ; patagia creamy white, with a black spot in their centres. 

 Thorax on the upperside white, marked with four black spots ; abdomen crimson, 

 with a broad black dorsal stripe. The pectus, thorax, and abdomen on the under- 

 side are vermilion, the latter with some small black spots on the sides of the 

 segments. The legs are brown, tinged with light red. On the upperside the wings 

 are dark brown ; the primaries have two small white spots at the base ; there is a 

 larger white spot towards the end of the cell, and two small subapical white spots. 

 The secondaries have a patch of red at the base ; which is confluent with the some- 

 what broad red band of colour which extends two-thirds of its length along the 

 upper border of the costa, sharply defined at its extremity and on its inner margin 

 by the dark brown ground colour of the wing. Tlie wings on the underside are 

 somewhat paler than on the upperside, and all the lighter spots of the upperside 

 are reproduced, but are throughout pale vermilion in colour. 



Expanse : 40 mm. 



Sir George Hampson writes me that this species is not in the British Museum, 

 but may be allied to Meringocera phUonica Felder. The latter species is repre- 

 sented in my collection by specimens from Macassar, and is evidently distinct from 

 the species we are considering. It also does not agree with the description of 

 Meringocera tncolor Pagenstecher. 



Genus NYCTEMERA Hubner. 



184. N. aeres (Boisduval), Voyage Astrolabe, Lep. p. 198. 

 Four specimens. 



185. N. baulus (Boisduval), Voyage Astrolabe, L4p. p. 200. 

 Only one specimen. 



186. N. mundipicta Walker, Joum. Linn. Sac. III. p. 184; Swinhoe, Gat. Lep. 

 Het. Mus. Oxf. I. p. 141. t. 5. f. 14. 



187. N. burica sp. nov. 



c?. Palpi black, front white, antennae blackish; vertex white; patagia white, 

 with a black spot on the centre; upperside of thorax white, with a large lilack spot ; 

 upperside of abdomen white, with a row of small black spots forming a dorsal line ; 

 the pectus and underside of the abdomen white, the latter with a row of small black 

 lateral brown spots ; legs white, margined with blackish. The primaries on the 

 upperside are black, with a large oblong white six)t near the base, contiguous to the 

 inner margin, and two small lenticular white spots near the base along the costa ; 

 beyond the oblong white spot at the origin of vein 2 is a small white spot ; across 

 the middle of the wing is a broad and very irregular white band, extending from the 

 costa towards the inner margin, near the outer angle, which it does not reach ; the 

 lower part of this band is divided, the outer portion being rounded at its extremity, 

 and the inner portion extending as a sharp tooth-like projection toward the middle 

 of the inner margin, from which there arises a small triangular white spot, in some 

 specimens coalescing with the tooth-like projection ; beyond this band, near the 



