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a smoky admixture ; fore wing with a large black cell-spot, 

 hind wing with a black (lot. 



Maevatanana, Tananarive district, Madagascar, 2 <J <$ . 

 It is not altogether impossible that this may be the £ of 



concolora, Swinh. (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xi. p. 503), 

 described from the ? only, but it seems very improbable, 

 as that has broad wings, the second joint of palpus more 

 extended black above, the tarsi and spurs black, &c. 



8. Nyctemera pellex frosti, subsp. n. 



S . — 40-43 mm. 



Fore iving with the white spots reduced in size ; the 

 elongate ivhite hind-marginal streak reduced to a small spot 

 (1 or 2 mm. in length) at 5 or G mm. from base. 



Hind wing with black border strongly broadened (as in 

 some aberrations of pellex separata, from the Northern 

 Moluccas) ; abdominal margin broadly grey-black, this shade 

 extending at least to the fold, and proximally encroaching 

 so as even to enter the cell ; the black at costal margin 

 shaped as in pellex separata. 



Kei Islands, Dec. 1916-Feb. 1917 {W. J. C. Frost), type 

 <$ and another. 



9. Nyctemera luctuosum rostrigera, subsp. n. 



2 . — Foreiving with the white subbasal patch behind the cell 

 enlarged, reaching posteriorly to SM 2 , thus only separated, 

 in its distal part, from the hind-marginal w r hite streak by a 

 line along SM 2 ; postdiscal white band in general somewhat 

 narrowed ; a leak-shaped ivhite projection outward from this 

 band between R 1 and ft 3 , as in galbanum, Swinh.; fringe 

 sometimes whitened towards toruus. Hind icing with the 

 white in the fringes more or less extended. 



Philippines : Cebu {J. J. Mounsey), type 2 and another; 

 Mindanao {ex Semper), two 2 2 • 



This is certainly the luctuosum of Semper (compare 

 Schmett. Philippineu. p. 492, pi. lviii. fig 1), but I am 

 by no means certain that it is not a distinct species or 

 possibly a dimorph of galbanum, Swinh., wanting the 

 characteristic white spot in cell of fore wing ; compare the 

 remarks of Semper (/. c.) under that species, though gal- 

 banum is certainly not the Luzon representative of luctuosum 

 {rostrigera), for the Joicey collection possesses three typical 

 galbanum from Cebu. 



