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ABCTIID.E. 





Fig. 10. Phissama transiens, 



Head and thorax dirty white ; palpi arid femora orange ; abdo- 

 men orange above, white below, 

 with dorsal, lateral, and ventral 

 series of black spots. Fore wing 

 very pale fuscous ; the costa and 

 base of inner margin whitish ; 

 black spots in and just beyond 

 Bjjl each angle of cell. Hind wing 



pale fuscous ; some specimens 

 with a black submarginal spot 

 above vein 5 and t\\ o towards 

 anal angle. 



Typical transiens is almost white, the form vacillans darker 

 fuscous. 



Larva black, blotched with red-brown and with tufts of red- 

 brown hair, the lateral tufts arising from ferruginous tubercles ; a 

 dorsal broad white line ; head black, marked with white. 



Nab. China ; Philippines ; throughout India and Burma ; 

 Borneo ; Celebes. Exp., <$ 50, $ 60 millim. 



Genus NICJEA. 

 Nikaea, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 11 (1879). 



Type, N. longvpennit, Wlk. 



Range. Japan ; N. India. 



Palpi porrect, reaching just beyond the frons ; antennae ciliated 

 in male. Hind tibiso with two pairs of spurs. Fore wing long 

 and narrow in male, the outer margin oblique, shorter in female. 

 Venation as in Spttowma, except that veins 6 arid 7 of tbe hind 

 wing are stalked. 



1243. Nicaea longipennis, Wlk. Cat. in, p. C55; Bull III. Het. v, 

 pi. 82, fig. 7 ; C.8fS. nos. 342, 803. 



Head and thorax black, vertex of head orange ; abdomen orange, 

 with dorsal and lateral black spots. Eore wing black, with two 



Fig. 11. Niccea longipennis, . 



white specks below the costa near base ; a bifid spot below 7 middle 

 of costa; a single spot below vein 2; a trifid postmedial spot 



