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bluish-white bordered line ; obliquely before the apes is a narrow recurved bright 

 deep yellow sti'eak, which is sometimes broken in the middle, and thus forms two 

 shorter recurved streaks : hindwing immaculate. Body dark violet-brown, palpi and 

 legs paler. 



Female. Olivaceous umber-brown, with more distinct and pale-bordered strigte : 

 forewing with similar transverse darker fasciEe, sinuous lines, and ocellus ; the obhque 

 subapical streak being broader and creamy-white, beyond which is a submarginal 

 series of ill-defined blackish dentate spots with slight whitish centres, the spot 

 between upper and middle median being large and prominent : hindwing with the 

 short black strigJB forming a darker irregular medial and discal fascia, the interspaces 

 of the striga3 bordering the discal fascia being more or less pale brownish-white ; 

 beyond is a more or less ill-defined indistinct submarginal zigzag fascia composed of 

 the confluent strigiB. Body olivaceous umber-brown. 



Expanse 3 to 3^ inches. 



Genus NYGTIPAO. 



Nyctipno, Hiibner, Vorz. bek. Schmett. p. 271 (1818-25); Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 181 ; Walker, Catal. 

 Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1303. 



Male and female. Wings ample : forewing broad, elongated, triangular ; costa 

 convex, apex pointed, exterior margin very slightly oblique, acutely denticulated ; 

 cell short, extending one-third the length, broad at the end ; first subcostal emitted 

 at one-half before end of the cell, second at one-fifth, trifid, third at one-tenth fi'om 

 base of second, and fourth at more than half from base of third, fifth from end of 

 the cell and touching third close to its base; discocellular concave in the middle, 

 bent at each end, radials from the angles ; middle median from close to end of the 

 cell, lower at one-third ; submedian slightly curved from the base, and with a short 

 spur from below the base : hindwing triangular, exterior margin acutely denticulated ; 

 cell very short, extending to only one-fifth the length ; costal and subcostals in 

 normal positions in both sexes ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular 

 concave, radial and upper median from end of the cell ; middle median from close to 

 the end, lower at one-third ; submedian and internal vein straight. Body stout, 

 abdomen smooth, not extending beyond the hindwings ; palpi very long, vertical, 

 compressed, first joint pilose, second joint laxly squamose, third joint linear, obtuse 

 at the tip and nearly as long as the second ; antenna3 long, finely ciliated in male, 

 setaceous in female ; legs stout, femora pilose beneath, hind tibise laxly pilose, spurs 

 long, fore and middle tibiaj slightly spined in front. 



Type, N. crepuscularis. 



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