from the Solomon Islands. 433 



broader bone-yellowlsli belt than in N. cr&puficulans ; the 

 transverse pale stripe crossing the angle of this belt very 

 indistinct and quite perpendicular, instead of slightly oblique j 

 the seventh spot of tlie submarginal zigzag series considerably 

 enlarged : secondai-ies entirely different, the basal area pale 

 sordid buff, gradually changing to vinous brown before the 

 middle, with a large apical darker brown patch interrupted by 

 the usual cuneiform, subcostal, apical, white spot, which is, 

 however, twice as large as in N. crepnscularis ; basal fourth 

 crossed by a blackish-brown stripe ; a nearly straight dif- 

 fused dark brown stripe across the middle ; six submarginal 

 black spots with whitish sigmoidal or lunate inner borders : 

 abdomen with no basal brown band or subbasal white band, 

 pale greyish brown or dove-coloured, with yellowish base and 

 sides. Under surface quite unlike that of N. crepuscularis, pale 

 sandy buff, with a more or less arched purplish-brown stripe 

 before the middle of all the wings and a broad external border 

 of the same colour enclosing a zigzag series of large white 

 spots : primaries with a white crescentic spot at the end of the 

 cell : secondaries with a dark brown angular discocellular 

 spot : body below sandy buff, the anterior half of the pectus 

 ochraceous. Expanse of wings 119 millira. 

 Alu, Shortland Island. 



2. Nyctipao caligi7iea, sp. n. 



? . Allied to N. ephesjjhoris, leucokenia, and dentifascia, 

 but readily separable from all three by its slightly superior 

 size, the distinctly broader external area, the much more 

 angular white band across the primaries, the wider white 

 band across the secondaries, the white and whitish zigzag 

 series of markings on the external area well separated from 

 the white band, the more purplish tint of, and better defined 

 black stripes on, the basal area : the white apical spots 

 resemble those of N. ephesjplioris ; on the under surface the 

 white spots are large, as in N. epliesplioris^ but the sixth spot 

 of the primaries and the fifth of the secondaries are projected 

 forward towards the outer margin, as in N. dentifascia. 

 Expanse of wings 119 millim. 

 Alu. 



Thermesiidse. 

 3. Sonagara superior^ sp. n. 



cJ. Allied to S. strigosa, Moore (Descr. Atk. p. 180, 

 p. V. fig. 17) ; decidedly larger. Wings above sericeous 



