153 LlOVD S NAXakAL historV. 



I'his is a North Indian species, but it forms a transition to 

 the African genus Cyiigrofiuna, to which I reler it. The 

 common African C. latona (Cramer), which most resembles it, 

 has narrower and more pointed wings ; the pale band is 

 narrow, straight, oblique, and surmounted on the fore-wings by 

 a detached cross-bar ; and the dark transverse lines are zig-zag. 

 , C. goiunans is blackish brown, with two darker transverse 

 ^ lines ; the first is distinct on the hind wings, and the second 

 curves outward on the fore-wings to form the outer border of 

 the large ocellus. The inner part of the ocellus consists of a 

 black outline, rounded towards the base, and marked with an 

 upper buff and a lower blue line; while outwardly it is triden- 

 tate, the upper indentation zig-zag, and the lower one broad, 

 shallow, and filled up with black, slightly dusted with blue. 

 Beneath the ocellus is a pale brown stripe, followed by a darker 

 one, and then by a broad yellowish-white band, curving 

 regularly round all the wings, and followed by some more or 

 less distinct pale speckles. The ground-colour of the 

 marginal area is paler than that of the centre of the wings. 



CYLIGRAMMA DISTURBANS. 



{Plate CXXXIX., Fig. 2.) 



Nyctipao disti/rbans, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xiv. 

 p. 1307, no. 9 (1858). 



Walker gives no locality for this species ; but it has since 

 been received from Madagascar. 



The following is his original description : — 



"Female. — Ferruginous, somewhat paler beneath. Wings 

 hardly denticulated, with a straight, oblique, exterior, yellow 

 band, which is for the most part speckled with ferruginous, and 

 is mostly wholly ferruginous along the exterior border, which 



