NTCTIPAO. 461 



The male has both wings suffused with black as far as the post- 

 medial line ; the abdomen black. 



Hob. Khasis ; Nilgiris. Exp. 86 milliin. 



2405. Nyctipao crepuscular is, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, 2, p. 811 ; Moore, 



Lep. Ceyl. iii, pi. 165, fig. 1-1 a ; C. $ S. no. 2539. 

 Nyctipao ephesperis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 272. 

 Nyctipao Isetitia, Butl. III. Net. in, p. 26, pi. 47, fig. 9. 



Head and thorax dark brown ; abdomen usually paler, with pale 

 bands at base. Fore wing dark brown, with indistinct sinuous 

 antemedial line ; the mark at end of cell shaped like an ' inverted 

 comma,' and brown with black edges, the ' head ' slightly bilobed 

 and with only a few blue scales ; a black line highly angled beyond 

 cell, then running to near base of inner margin, and with a broad 

 fulvous or white band beyond it ; an indistinct sinuous postmedial 

 line, and submarginal irregularly lunulate black line, with some 

 white marks on it, the mark at costa usually larger ; the outer area 

 suffused with grey, except a large triangular patch on costa before 

 apex. Hind wing with pale basal band, with black line beyond it ; 

 a slightly waved medial line, with some long whitish hair beyond 

 it ; an irregularly lunulate submarginal black line, bent inwards 

 between veins 3 and 6, usually with white marks on it and a patch 

 at costa ; the outer area fulvous brown except at apex. 



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

 Sumatra; Java; Borneo; Philippines. Exp. 96-110 millim. 



2406. Nyctipao gemmans, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 182 ; C. $ S. no. 2541. 



Black-brown. Pore wing with indistinct antemedial line ; the 

 stigma as in crepuscularis, but larger and with toothed inner edge ; 

 the postmedial line curved and bent inwards below the stigma ; 

 an evenly curved white submarginal band, with yellowish edge and 

 some specks beyond it across both wings. Hind wing with in- 

 distinct subbasal and medial lines. 



Hob. Sylhet. Exp. 82 millim. 



2407. Nyctipao albicincta, Koll. Htigets Kaschndr, iv, p. 474, pi. 22 



(1844) ; C.$ S. no. 2537. 

 Erebus rivularis, Westw. Cab. Or. Ent. p. 57, pi. 28, fig. 3. 



Metallic blue-black. Fore wing with the whorl-shaped stigma 

 large and on a greenish patch, with brick-red in the centre, the 

 black head with a blue patch, two white specks and some white 

 scales on it ; a curved ochreous white submarginal narrow band to 

 both wings, with angles in it above veins 3 and 6 of hind wing and 

 vein 3 of fore wing ; the cilia and veins at margin of both wings 

 ochreous white. 



Hob. N.W. Himalayas ; Sikhim ; Khasis ; Shillong ; ? Nilgiris. 

 Exp. 110-130 millim. 



2408. Nyctipao glaucopis, Wlk. Cat. xiv, p. 1306 ; Butl. III. Het. 



vi,pl. 112, fig. 4; C. # S. no. 2542. 

 Nyctipao prunosa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 26 ; C. 8f S. no. 2543. 



