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665. Leptosoma absurdum : n. sp. 



3 Allied to preceding. Antennas and eyes black, head and thorax 

 yellow spotted and banded similarly, abdomen pale slate colour with 

 white thin segmental bands. Fore-wings brown with the basal lines 

 thin and yellowish as in L. alternatum, discal white band very broad, 

 and right across the wing, divided by the veins into ten spots, the 

 usual second spot from the costa being divided into three by the 

 discoidal and internal veins, has a white streak touching it on the 

 outer side and another small one above. 



Hind- wing with a narrow marginal brown border as in L. son- 

 ticum, but running up the costa as in Z. alternatum. 



Expanse of wings i^ inches. 

 a. Salawatti Island, S. W. of New Guinea (Wallace). 



666. Leptosoma simulatrix. 



Nyctemera simulatrix. Walker: xxxi. 198 (1864). 

 a. Makessar, Celebes (type) (Wallace). 



667. Leptosoma acceptum : n. sp. PI. v. f. 5. 



9 Antennae and eyes black, head and thorax yellow, the former 

 with black spots, the latter with black bands, abdomen dark blackish 

 brown with yellow segmental bands. Fore-wings dark brown, a 

 discal upright white band of six spots from near the costa to near 

 the hinder angle, much as in Z. simulatrix^ but with a broad longi- 

 tudinal basal band in the interno-median interspace, as in L. latis- 

 triga, but with no other basal lines or bands. Hind- wings white 

 with a brown uniform border, extending palely up the costal margin, 

 slightly toothed inwards on the veinlets, more so in the first median 

 branch, the border not nearly so broad as in Z. simulatrix. 



Expanse of wings 2 T \j inches. 

 a. Mindanao, Celebes (type) (Wallace). 



668. Leptosoma kala : n. sp. PI. v. f. 8. 



? Antennae, eyes, vertex of head black, frons yellow on each side, 

 collar yellow with two large brown spots, thorax black with a thin 

 yellow line on each side meeting behind, abdomen dark slate colour 

 with yellow segmental lines. Fore-wings very dark brown, nearly 

 black, no basal lines, discal band broad in the centre consisting of 

 seven spots, 1st a thin sub-costal line, 2nd very minute, in front 

 between ist and 3rd, 3rd heart-shaped, large, 5th the longest. Hind- 

 wings with black brown band, narrowest in its centre and not running 

 up the abdominal margin. 



Expanse of wings 2 inches. 

 a. K6 Island (type) (Wallace). 



669. Leptosoma tritum. 



Nyctemera trita. Walker: ii. 394 (1854). 

 Type. Java, in B. M. 

 a. Java (Wallace). b. Java (4). 



