NVCTIPAO. 155 



This remarkable species, and its varieties or subspecies, have 

 a wide range, extending throughout the whole of Africa and 

 Madagascar, as well as India, Ceylon, and Burma. It expands 

 from five inches to five inches and a half. 



The wings are much dentated, chocolate-brown, with a 

 purplish lustre, with darker zig-zag stripes, and spots on 

 both fore- and hind-wings. The fore-wings have a very large 

 and conspicuous ochre-yellow ocellus beyond the end of the 

 cell, circled with black, and containing a large comma-shaped 

 black spot in its outer half. It is traversed on its inner part by 

 a white line, and is marked on the lower part with three white 

 dusted streaks ; these white marks appear bright blue in certain 

 lights. There are six transverse lines, the first being the half 

 line, and the third and fourth are interrupted by the ocellus, 

 whilst the fifth is curved round its outer border, and isjiere 

 closely approximated to the sixth, beyond which is a row of 

 sub-marginal spots. The hind-wings have three dark lines, the 

 outermost corresponding to the sub-marginal spots of the fore- 

 wings. 



The under side is paler than the upper, especially at the base, 

 with a double row of white sub-marginal sjjots, the innermost 

 row being much the largest. When the tibial tufts are fully 

 expanded, as in the specimen figured, they are extremely 

 conspicuous. 



GENUS NYCTIPAO. 



Nydipao, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmctt. p. 271 (1822 ?); Guenee, 

 Spec. Gen. L^pid. Noct. iii. p. 181 (1852); Walker, List 

 Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 1303 (1858); Hampson, 

 Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, ii. p. 458 (1894). 



This genus includes a number of East Indian species of 

 considerable size, with longer and narrower wings than the 

 species of Crishnq. They are dark brown or blackish, with 



