192 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



NYCTEMERA CRESCENS. 

 {Plate XC. Fig. 3.) 



Nycieniera crescens, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Miis. xxxi. p, 

 204 (1864); Meyrick, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales (2) i. p. 

 761 (1886). 

 This species is found in Queensland. It expands one inch 

 "Male. — Blackish-brown. Head luteous about the eyes and 

 beneath. Palpi luteous towards the base. Antennae moder- 

 ately pectinated. Thorax with the four tegulae and the scutel- 

 lum whitish-bordered. Pectus luteous, with some black spots. 

 Abdomen with a white band on the hind border of each sesr- 

 ment; a white stripe on each side of the first segment ; bands 

 of the sixth and seventh segments and apical tuft, luteous; 

 underside luteous, with four rows of blackish-brown spots, 

 which successively decrease in size towards the tip. Femora 

 pale luteous beneath. Fore-wings with the veins white towards 

 the base, and with a securiform white streak which extends from 

 the base, and at its tip occupies the whole space between the 

 median vein and the sub-median vein ; a broad irregular ex- 

 terior white band, which is slightly abbreviated at each end, 

 and is much notched on its inner side ; interior border white 

 for nearly two-thirds of its length from the base. Hind-wings 

 white, with a broad brown border, which is undulating on its 

 inner side." { Walker.) 



AMILY XXI. PTEROTHYSANTD.^. 



Sir George Hampson has established this Family ("Moths of 

 India," i. p. 431) for the genus Fterothyscums, Walker, which in- 

 cludes a few very remarkable East Indian species. They agree 

 with the Nyctemeridce in their slender bodies and large wings, 

 the fore-wings being hardly longer than the hind-wings. The 

 antennai are simple, the abdomen is tufted at the extremity, 



