142 NYCTEMERID^:. 



Nyctemera atralba. Hiibner : Verz. Schm., 178. 1846 (1816). 

 a. Singapore (Horsley). b. Mount Ophir, Malay Peninsula 



(Wallace). c. Malacca (Wallace). 



660. Leptosoma celsum. 



Nyctemera celsa. Walker: xxxi. 199 (1864). 

 a. Cambodia (type) (Mouhot). . b. Amoy, China. 



661. Leptosoma latistriga. 



Nyctemera latistriga. Walker: ii. 397 (1854). 



Moore : Cat. Lep. E. I. C., ii. p. 331 (1859). 



Lep. Ceylon, ii. p. 48, pi. 99, f. 2 (1882). 



Journ. Linn. Soc., Lond., xxi. p. 54 (1886). 



Leptosoma latistriga. Butler : 111. Typ. Lep. Het, B. M., v. p. 44, pi. 88, 



f. i (1881). 



Cotes and Swinh. : Cat. Moths of India, ii. 80. 472 

 (1887). 



Swinhoe : Trans. Ent. Soc., Lond., 1890, p. 178. 



Nyctemera arcuatum. Voll. : Tijd. voor der Dierkunde, i. p. 45 (1863). 

 Nyctemera inconstans. Voll. : /. c., p. 47. 



Type. Maulmein, in B. M. 



a. Sarawak, Borneo (2) (Wallace). b. Ceylon. c. Philip- 



pines (2). d. Java ( ). 



662. Leptosoma radiata. PI. v. f. 10. 



Nyctemera radiata. Walker: vii. 1664 (1856). 

 a. Manilla (type) (Wallace). b. Philippines. 



663. Leptosoma alternatum. 



Nyctemera alternata. Walker: xxxi. 1879 (1864). 

 a. Manilla (type) (Wallace). b. Philippines. 



664. Leptosoma sonticum : n. sp. 



Allied to L. radiata and L. alternatum. 



Antennae and eyes black, head yellow with black spots, thorax 

 yellow with black bands, abdomen greyish white with faint thin 

 segmental bands, tip yellow. Fore-wings brown with basal whitish 

 streaks on and between the veins as in the allied forms, the 

 streaks nearly white, faintly tinted with yellow, the streak in the cell 

 broad and in the interno-median interspace very broad, as broad as 

 in L. latistriga^ and in the male running into the lowest spot (near 

 the hinder angle) of the white discal belt, this belt ranges right 

 across the wing, consists of six spots all broader than in the two 

 preceding species, the second from the top spear-shaped as in L. 

 radiata ; there is also a very small spot on the outside between the 

 first. and second upper spots. Hind-wings with the marginal band 

 with a sinuated inner border narrow and not continued along the 

 costa as in L. alternatum. 



Expanse of wings I T 9 Q inches. 

 a. Philippines (<S ? types). 



