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CATOCALINAE. 



8. Nyctipao albiangulata sp. nov. (pi. XIV, fig. 2). 

 <? , 120 mm. 



Androconical clothing apparently as in IV. albicinctus Koll. (Erebus 

 albicinctus Koll., Hiigel's " Kaschmir," iv, 474, pi. xxii [1844]) (Sect, iii, 

 B. (b) of Hampson) from which species it differs in the following 

 particulars. In albiangulata the ground-colour above and beneath is 

 slightly darker and more purplish ; the discoidal stigma broader, filled 

 in with and exteriorly broadly defined by black, leaving a narrow broken 

 ring of ochraceous-brown, broadening to a comma-shaped head, which is 

 edged by a white streak and two white spots and bears a third white 

 spot on the head ; the white postmedial line is strongly angled outward 

 behind K 1 and R 3 and before hindmargin and is incurved between the 

 angles ; on the hind wing the white line is finer and rather more 

 strongly waved than in albicinctus and the veins of terminal area are 

 not streaked with white. 



S.W. Sumatra : North Korintji Valley, 5,000 feet, September- 

 October, 1921, S holotype only. 



It is probable that these Nyctipao species may ultimately be found 

 to fall into a number of races of a few species, in which case this form 

 will have to be known as albicinctus albiangulata ; but in the absence 

 of more definite knowledge it has seemed best to treat this very distinct 

 form as a good species. 



Nyctipao Modes Zerny (Ann. Hotmus. Wien., xxx, 193, taf. v, fig. 14 

 [1916] [Java]) also belongs to this group of species (or subspecies), but 

 in Modes the white line is rather broader and more acutely angled 

 (especially on the hind wing) than in either albicinctus or albiangulata, 

 and the discoidal stigma narrower than in either of the other species. 



9. Nyctipao meforensis sp. nov. (pi. XIV, fig. 1). 

 Section III, B (e) of Hampson. 

 3 , 104 mm. 



Head, thorax and abdomen much as in bismarcia Hmpsn. (Cat. 

 Lep. Phal., xii, 297 [1913] [New Britain]) but thorax darker (blackish- 

 purple), collar narrowly yellow-brown. 



Both wings glossy purplish-black, crossed by a yellowish-white 

 postmedial band (narrower and whiter towards the costa of hind wing). 



