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is an indication of a lower streak. Hind-wings slightly paler inwards, 

 with an indication of a white spot at the end of the cell, which is 

 most distinct in the female. Underside, wings of a uniform brown 

 slightly paler than they are above, no basal stripes, the discal stripes 

 in the male all obscure except the two uppermost, the white spot in 

 the hind- wing like a streak in the female, thorax yellow with black 

 spots, legs brown above, white beneath. 



Expanse of wings ly^ inches. 

 a. Manilla, Philippine Islands (<J ? types). 



675. Leptosoma distinctum. 



Nyctemera distincta. Walker : ii. 392 (1854). 

 Type. Java, in B. M. 

 a. Java. 



676. Leptosoma segrotum: n. sp. PL v. f. 15. 



9 Frons yellow with a black spot, head, collar, and thorax yellow 

 with black spots, abdomen grey with brown bands, the grey on each 

 segment paling towards the band below it; the spaces becoming 

 somewhat luteous towards the tip, the tip yellow. Fore-wings pale 

 greyish brown with a white transverse band beyond the middle, 

 inclining somewhat inwards above, broken at the 1st median branch 

 with a large spot below it, and two submarginal large spots, 1st 

 sub-apical, the larger, the 2nd about the middle of the margin. 

 Hind-wings white with a brown marginal border, which does not 

 extend into the costal or abdominal margins, and is suddenly nar- 

 rowed in at the middle of the outer margin, two pale luteous nearly 

 white spots in the band close to the margin ; ist sub-apical, and 2nd 

 about the middle. Underside as above, fore-wings with the space 

 along the hinder margin white, hind-wings with a brown costal 

 streak along basal half, thorax yellow with brown spots, legs brown 

 above, white beneath. 



Expanse of wings 2 inches. 

 a. New South Wales (type). 



There are examples of this insect unnamed in the British Museum ; 

 it is allied to nothing I know of. 



677. Leptosoma plagiatum. 



Nyctemera plagiatum. Guen : Eut. Month. Mag., v. p. 2 (1868). 

 a. Sidney (3). b. Van Diemen's Land (Lewis). c. New 



Holland (2). d. N. Australia (3). e. King George's Sound. 



f. New South Wales. 



678. Leptosoma annulatum. 



Leptosoma annulatum. Boisd. : Voy. de 1' Astrolabe, i. p. 197, pi. 5, f. 9 



(1832). 

 Nyctemera annulata. Walker: ii. 391 (1854). 



Hudson : Entomologist, xvi. p. 39 (transformations) 

 (1883). 



