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the wings is light yellow, which is covered with 

 many large and small green satiny spots. Of this 

 colour are the roots of the upper wings, then a 

 large round spot, and then follows a long patch ; 

 besides this, there are ten smaller spots. On the 

 lower wings there is a transverse band at the ex- 

 terior edge, consisting of. one internal round and 

 one large long spot ; at the front edge and in the 

 middle some smaller spots. The underside of the 

 wings is not at all different from the upper side. 

 We have still to notice a brown curved bristle 

 about four lines long on the basis of the lower 

 wings. The black feelers are broadly fringed up 

 to the middle, then narrow in the form of a saw. 

 The hair on the shoulders, head, and thorax is 

 brown j the rest is rubbed off in my specimen. 



XXX. NOCTUA BAMBUCINA. 



N. alis atris, anticis challbeo strigosis, apice annu- 

 loque collarif posticis margine lato externa mioque 

 aurantiacis. 



From Manilla, on the bamboo trees. — It is of 

 the size of the N. Libatria:. The upper wings 

 are dark-brown near to the sector edge, and at the 

 back edge is a long stripe of a steel blue colour ; of 

 the same colour two points and one hook in the 

 middle ; and lastly, at some distance from the ex- 

 terior edge, eight short streaks above each other, 

 which also form a transverse band. The tip of 

 the upper wings, the broad exterior margin of the 



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