158 LLOYDS NA!'URAL 



This is a North Indian species, but it forms a transition to 

 the African genus Cyligramma, to which I refer it. The 

 common African C. latona (Cramer), which most resembles it, 

 has narrower and more pointed wings ; the pale band is 

 narrow, straight, oblique, and surmounted on the fore-wings by 

 a detached cross-bar ; and the dark transverse lines are zig-zag. 



C. gemmans is blackish brown, with two darker transverse 

 lines ; the first is distinct on the hind wings, and the second 

 curves outward on the fore-wings to form the outer border of 

 the large ocellus. The inner part of the ocellus consists of a 

 black outline, rounded towards the base, and -marked with an 

 upper buff and a lower blue line ; while outwardly it is triden- 

 tate, the upper indentation zig-zag, and the lower one broad, 

 shallow, and rilled up with black, slightly dusted with blue. 

 Beneath the ocellus is a pale brown stripe, followed by a darker 

 one, and then by a broad yellowish-white band, curving 

 regularly round all the wings, and followed by some more or 

 less distinct pale speckles. The ground-colour of the 

 marginal area is paler than that of the centre of the wings. 



CYLIGRAMMA DISTURBANS. 

 (Plate CXXXIX., Fig. 2.) 



Nyctipao disturbans, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xiv. 

 p. 1307, no. 9 (1858). 



Walker gives no locality for this species ; but it has since 

 been received from Madagascar. 



The following is his original description : 



''Female. Ferruginous, somewhat paler beneath. Wings 

 hardly denticulated, with a straight, oblique, exterior, yellow 

 band, which is for the most part speckled with ferruginous, and 

 is mostly wholly ferruginous along the- exterior border, which 



