460 NOCTTTID^E. 



Hob. Madagascar ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma 

 Malacca ; Philippines ; Java ; Ternate. Exp. 88 millirn. 



Fig. 259. Nyctipao hieroglyphk-a, <$ . \. 



2403. Nyctipao caprimulgns, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii, 210, no. 6 ; C. # S. 



no. 2534. 

 Nyctipao exterior, Wlk. Cat. xiv, p. 1306; Bull. Ill Het. vi, 



pi. 112, fig. 3 ; C. 8? S. no. 2540. 

 Nyctipao obliterans, Wlk. Cat. xiv, p. 1307. 

 Nyctipao truncata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 608 ; C. $ S. no. 2544. 



<5 . Differs from liieroglyphica in having the whorl on fore wing 

 larger ; the yellow subapical bar absent. Abdomen with tufts of 

 orange hair in anal segment round claspers. 



$ . The form obliterans is like the male, but with indistinct ante- 

 medial line to fore wing and line from the whorl to inner margin ; 

 hind wing with traces of sinuous medial line. In the form exterior 

 there is a sinuous postmedial white line on both wings, broad and 

 angled near costa of fore wing, the outer area suffused with grey 

 or sometimes mostly white on hind wing. Another form is 

 brown, the wings suffused with black as far as the postmedial line. 

 Underside with irregular postmedial series of white spots to both 

 wings. 



Hob. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma. Exp. 90-104 

 millim. 



B. Male with the glandular patch and veins 4 to 8 of hind wing 

 still more reduced. 



2404. Nyctipao strigipennis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 25 ; C. $ S. 



no. 2536. 



Differs from the female of hieroglypliica in having the oblique 

 subapical bar of fore wing brown and indistinct. 



