14^ NYCTEMERID.'E. 



Nycte7nera anniilata. Meyrick : Ent. Mo. Mag., xxiii. p. 15 (18S6). 

 Secusio an7itilata. Butler: P. Z. S., Lond., 1877, p. 380. 



a. New Zealand (Parry). b. New Zealand (6). 



679. Leptosoma instructum. 



Nycteniera instructa. Walker: xxxi. 203 (1864). 

 a. New Guinea (type) (Wallace). 



680. Leptosoma luetuosum. 



Nydemera luetuosum. VoU. : Tijd. voor der Dierknnde, i. p. 42 (1863). 

 Nydemera crescens. Walker: xxxi. 204 (1864). 



a. Morty Island (type crescens) (Wallace). b. Bachian (Wal- 



lace), c. Sula (Wallace). 



681. Leptosoma galbanum : n. sp. 



cJ ? Antennae black, frons, head, and collar yellow with black 

 spots, thorax white with black stripes, abdomen white with broad 

 black segmental bands, yellow at the tip. Fore-wings black with 

 a white space at the base, covering half the wing at its basal third 

 and containing two or three black basal streaks, a broad transverse 

 white discal band distorted and toothed outwardly in its middle, 

 a black streak at the hinder angle at the bottom of the white discal 

 band. Hind-wings white, a thin costal and moderately broad mar- 

 ginal black border, not extending into the abdominal margin, and 

 bent in the middle, making that part of the outer margin the nar- 

 rowest. Underside, wings as above, a short black streak at the base 

 of the costa of hind-wings, body yellow, spotted with black, legs 

 brewn above, yellow beneath. 



Expanse of wings l^js inches. 

 a. Philippine Islands (<? ? types). 



Allied to the preceding, has the same bright white colour, but in 

 the preceding the fore-wing is black with white basal and discal 

 markings, whereas in this insect, though somewhat similarly marked, 

 the white is so extensive as to make the wing look white w ith black 

 bands. 



Genus DEILEMERA. Hiibner: Verz. Schm., p. 178 (18 16). 



682. Deilemera evergista. 



Phalmna {Geometra) evergista. Cramer : Pap. Exot., iv. 155, pi. 369, f. E 



(1781). 

 Deilenura evergista, Hiibner: Verz. Schm., 179. 1S48 (1816). 

 Nyeletnera evergista. Walker : ii. 393 (1S54). 

 Nyetcfiiera vmtabilis. Walker (part) : xxxi. 206 (1S64). 



a. Amboina (original type of Duitabilis) (Wallace). b. Ceram 



(type niufabi/is var. {i) (Wallace). 



