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parallel with it. There is a very irregular, much dentated and 

 frequently interrupted, black-bordered, sub-marginal line, com- 

 mencing close to the apex of the fore-wings, and traversing 

 both fore- and hind-wings. Just within the commencement of 

 this line, on the costa of the fore-wings, is a triangular white 

 spot. The fore-wings have a large ocellus. The inner portion 

 of this consists of a deep ochreous mark, shaped like an inverted 

 comma, but bifid below and externally, and separated from the 

 rusty-brown main portion of the ocellus by a black border. 

 The whole of the ocellus is ringed with black, with a paler line 

 within the black. On it are a few bluish scales. 



The female is brown, less varied with yellow, and the ochreous 

 band is less distinct. The fine transverse line is white, and is 

 bordered, especially on the hind-wings, with purplish-white 

 scales. 



GENUS CYLIGRAMMA. 



Cyligramma, Boisduval, Faune Madag. p. 109 (1833); Guenee, 

 Spec. Gen. Lepid. Noct. iii. p. 185 (1852); Walker, List 

 Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 1308 (1858). , 



This genus replaces Nyctipao in Africa and Madagascar, and 

 considerably resembles it, but the species are generally smaller, 

 the body is much more slender, and the fore-wings are scarcely 

 dentated. The abdomen is pointed, and rather short and 

 slender, and the eyes are very large and nearly contiguous in 

 the male. 



CYLIGRAMMA GEMMANS. 

 (Plate C XXX IX., Fig. I.) 



Nyctipao gemmans, Guenee, Spec. Gen. Lepid. Noct. iii. p. 182 

 (1852); Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 1304, 

 no. i (1858); Hampson, Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, ii. p. 461 

 (1894). 



