BY THOMAS P. LUCAS, M.R.C.8.E., L.S.A., LONI), 61 



bordered with black, with four rows of black dots, first row of 

 two, second and third of three, and hind of one large blotch ; 

 second and third rows connected by narrow lines. Abdomen 

 smoky grey, narrowly banded at junction of each segment with 

 a line of fringy white, bordered by a fuscous line, under side 

 white, with the grey bands widened out and becoming black, 

 caudal segment tipped with orange. Forewings, costa rounded, 

 hind margin rounded, smoky black, with white spots, basal dot 

 small, tinted with orange spot above median at one-fourth, 

 a large oblong rounded discal spot touching, or not quite touch- 

 ing, costa at one-half and extending to submedian vein, three 

 submarginal spots, apical and median well defined, one opposite 

 anal angle small, a white patch from one-sixth to three-fifth 

 inner margin. Cilia smoky black. Hindwings as forewings, with 

 basal two-thirds white extending to inner margin, and within a 

 narrow border of costa ; a white spot in dark border near apex 

 of hind margin, a second at two-thirds hind margin, and one or 

 two indefinite dots near anal angle. Cilia as forewing. Ingham 

 Mac-Kie Collection. Allied to N. chloroplaca ^leyr. and N. 

 kSeparata, Walk. 



GROUP BOMB YCIN A— FAMILY HEPIALID(E. 



PiKLUS MAGNIFICUS. SP. NOV. 



i ? ]]{]]i 125 — 165. Head smoky drab, antennse A pecti- 

 nated, 2, attenuated at either end, V denticulate. Thorax fawn 

 colour drab, shading lighter laterally, with a black line down 

 centre and across shoulders. Abdomen lighter drab than thorax. 

 Forewings fawn color or drab in i , with markings edged with 

 black, in ? drab grey thinly edged with black. Costa gently 

 arched, hind margin obliquely rounded, straight toward apex, a 

 broad white band, shading to creamy grey, from base close to 

 costa, attenuated to a point four-fifths costa ; a triangular white 

 blotch at base of hind margin ; an elongated triangle of white, 

 with apex on middle of wing, at one-fifth to two-thirds extending 

 to base, reaching from opposite two-thirds costa at one-third 

 depth of wing to opposite one-half hind margin and nearly one- 

 half depth of wing from inner margin ; this conspicuoivs marking 

 is bounded with- rich deep black, excepting on inner side near 

 base; basal nuirgin sinuous, toothed ; :an outer elongated white 



