14 6 NYCTEMERID^E. 



Nyctemera annulata. Meyrick : Ent. Mo. Mag., xxiii. p. 15 (1886). 

 Secusio annulata. Butler: P. Z. S., Lond., 1877, p. 380. 



a. New Zealand (Parry). b. New Zealand (6). 



679. Leptosoma instruction. 



Nyctemera instrticta. Walker: xxxi. 203 (1864). 

 a. New Guinea (type) (Wallace). 



680. Leptosoma luctuosum. 



Nyctemera luctuosum. Voll. : Tijd. voor der Dierkunde, i. p. 42 (1863). 

 Nyctemera crescens. Walker : xxxi. 204 (1864). 



a. Morty Island (type crescens} (Wallace). b. Bachian (Wal- 



lace), c. Sula (Wallace). 



681. Leptosoma galbanum : n. sp. 



6 ? Antennas black, frons, head, and collar yellow with black 

 spots, thorax white with black stripes, abdomen white with broad 

 black segmental bands, yellow at the tip. Fore-wings black with 

 a white space at the base, covering half the wing at its basal third 

 and containing two or three black basal streaks, a broad transverse 

 white discal band distorted and toothed outwardly in its middle, 

 a black streak at the hinder angle at the bottom of the white discal 

 band. Hind- wings white, a thin costal and moderately broad mar- 

 ginal black border, not extending into the abdominal margin, and 

 bent in the middle, making that part of the outer margin the nar- 

 rowest. Underside, wings as above, a short black streak at the base 

 of the costa of hind-wings, body yellow, spotted with black, legs 

 brown above, yellow beneath. 



Expanse of wings i^ inches. 



a. Philippine Islands (cj 9 types). 



Allied to the preceding, has the same bright white colour, but in 

 the preceding the fore-wing is black with white basal and discal 

 markings, whereas in this insect, though somewhat similarly marked, 

 the white is so extensive as to make the wing look white with black 

 bands. 



GENUS DEILEMERA. Htibner: Verz. Schm., p. 178 (1816). 



682. Deilemera evergista. 



Phalczna (Geometrd) evergista. Cramer : Pap. Exot, iv. 155, pi. 369, f. E 



(1781). 



Deilemera evergista. Hiibner : Verz. Schm., 179. 1848 (1816). 

 Nyctemera evergista. Walker : ii. 393 (1854). 

 Nyctemera mutabilis. Walker (part) : xxxi. 206 (1864). 



a. Amboina (original type of mutabilis] (Wallace). b. Ceram 



(type mutabilis var. (3) (Wallace). 



