NYCTEMERA. 47 



SECT. I. Male without a tuft of hair on the tibia 

 of fore leg. 



1263. Nyctemera lacticinia, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii, pi. 128, fig. E; 



Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii, p . 99, tigs. 1, 1 a (larva) ; C. $ S. no. 463. 



Head, collar, and thorax yellowish white, spotted with black ; 

 abdomen white, the extremity yellow ; three black spots on the 

 first segment and slight black bands on the next six above ; two 

 paired series of lateral black spots. Fore wing hair-brown ; a 

 broad white streak on base of inner margin ; an oblique post- 

 medial band of five white spots. Hind wing white ; a broad 

 marginal brown band with irregularly curved inner edge. 



Larva dull red ; a dorsal and two lateral series of radiating 

 tufts of fine black hairs arising from black tubercles ; two long 

 forwardly projecting tufts on 1st somite. 



Pupa red-brown, in a rolled -up leaf. 



Hob. China ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Java ; 

 Ceram. Exp., <$ 42, $ 46-48 millim. 



1264. Nyctemera latistriga, Wlk. Cat. ii, p. 397; Moore, Lep. Ceyl 



ii, pi. 99, fig. 2 ; C. $ S. no. 472. 



Nyctemera inconstans, Voll. Tijds. Dierk. i, p. 47 (1863). 

 Nyctemera arcuatum, Voll. Tijds. Dierk. i, p. 45. 

 Nyctemera regularis, Snelleman, Mid.-Sum., Lep. p. 34 (1880). 



Differs from lacticinia in having the broad white streak on base 

 of inner margin of fore wing replaced by narrow streaks on costa, 

 vein 1, and inner margin, and by a very broad streak below the 

 median nervure ; the postmedial band of spots with the upper two 

 conjoined, the fourth very large, and fifth absent. 



Hah. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Andamans ; 

 Sumatra ; Borneo ; Java. Exp., <J 44, $ 46 millim. 



1265. Nyctemera tripunctaria, Linn. Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 392 ; C. $ S. 



no. 466. 

 Nyctemera atralba, Hiibn. Verz. p. 178. 



Differs from latistriga in the abdomen having black spots on the 

 vertex instead of bands ; fore wing with the streaks below the 

 median nervure, on vein 1, and on inner margin being much 

 longer ; the postmedial spots conjoined into a regular band ; hind 

 wing with the inner edge of the marginal band evenly curved and 

 waved. 



Hab. Assam ; Malacca ; Singapore. Eocp. 50-54 millim. 



1266. Nyctemera plagifera, Wlk. Cat. ii, p. 400 ; Butl HI. Het. v, 



pi. 88, fig. 3; C. $ S. no. 471. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen marked as in tripunctaria, except 

 that the teguloe have three black spots instead of a spot and streak. 



