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is an indication of a lower streak. Hind-wings slightly paler inwards, 

 with an indication of a white spot at the end of the cell, which is 

 most distinct in the female. Underside, wings of a uniform brown 

 slightly paler than they are above, no basal stripes, the discal stripes 

 in the male all obscure except the two uppermost, the white spot in 

 the hind- wing like a streak in the female, thorax yellow with black 

 spots, legs brown above, white beneath. 



Expanse of wings ifV inches. 

 a. Manilla, Philippine Islands {6 ? types). 



675. Leptosoma distinetum. 



Ayctcmcra disiincta. Walker : ii. 392 (1S54). 

 Type. Java, in B. M. 

 a. Java. 



676. Leptosoma segrotum : n. sp. PI. v. f. 15, 



? Frons yellow with a black spot, head, collar, and thorax yellow 

 with black spots, abdomen grey with brown bands, the grey on each 

 segment paling towards the band below it ; the spaces becoming 

 somewhat luteous towards the tip, the tip yellow. Fore-wings pale 

 greyish brown with a white transverse band beyond the middle, 

 inclining somewhat inwards above, broken at the ist median branch 

 with a large spot below it, and two submarginal large spots, ist 

 sub-apical, the larger, the 2nd about the middle of the margin. 

 Hind-wings white with a brown marginal border, which does not 

 extend into the costal or abdominal margins, and is suddenly nar- 

 rowed in at the middle of the outer margin, two pale luteous nearly 

 white spots in the band close to the margin ; ist sub-apical, and 2nd 

 about the middle. Underside as above, fore-wings with the space 

 along the hinder margin white, hind-wings with a brown costal 

 streak along basal half, thorax yellow with brown spots, legs brown 

 above, white beneath. 



Expanse of wings 2 inches. 

 a. New South Wales (type). 



There are examples of this insect unnamed in the British Museum ; 

 it is allied to nothing I know of. 



677. Leptosoma plagiatum. 



Nycteiiicra plagiatiiiii. Guen : Ent. Month. Mag., v. p. 2 (1S68). 

 a. Sidney (3). b. Van Diemen's Land (Lewis). c. New 



Holland (2). d. N. Australia (3). e. King George's Sound. 



f. New South Wales. 



678. Leptosoma annulatiim. 



Leptosoma ail imlat II III. Boisd. : Voy. de I'Astrolabe, i. p. 197, pi. 5, f. 9 



(1832). 

 Nyctemera annulala. Walker: ii. 391 (1854). 



Hudson : Entomologist, xvi. p. 39 (transformations) 



(1S83). 



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