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b. Fore wing of male with the neuratioa normal. 



a^. Fore wing with the oblique postnieclial bar yellow 



in male, white in female , hieroglyphlca. 



b^. Fore wing with the oblique postinedial bar grey- 

 brown in both sexes strigipennis. 



7397. Nyctipao hieroglyphlca. 



Noctwa, hieroglyphicus, Drury, 111. Exot. Ins. ii. p. 3, pi. ii. f. 1 (1773); 



Donovan, Ins. Ind. pi. 54. f. 2 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl, iii. p. 146, pi. 165. 



fF. 2, 2 a ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 459. 

 Noctua hermonia, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. p. 119, pi. 174. f. E (1779). 

 Noctua mygdonia, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. p. 119, pi. 174. f. P (1779). 

 Noctua ulula, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 211 (1781). 

 Bocana lunaris, Wlk. xxxi. 57 (1864). 

 Argiva celebensis, Hpfr. Stett. Ent. Zeit. xxxv. p. 46 (1874). 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown. Fore wing black- 

 brown with numerous dark striae, very indistinct except on terminal 

 area which is slightly paler ; an inverted comma-shaped brown 

 discoidal mark with bilobate head defined by black and silvery-blue 

 scales ; the medial bhick line arising from below costa just beyond 

 the discoidal mark, excurved beyond it and angled inwards below it, 

 then oblique to inner margin before middle ; an oblique yellowish 

 white or brownish yellow postmedial bar from below costa to vein 6, 

 sometimes divided into two spots ; an indistinct oblique waved dark 

 subtermiual line defining the inner edge of the paler terminal area. 

 Hind wing black-brown with numerous very iiidistinct dark striae. 

 Underside of both wings dark brown ; fore wing with yellowish 

 white postmedial spot below vein 4 and traces of a spot below 2. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown ; fore wing grey- 

 brown with the dark striaj distinct, the postmedial oblique bar 

 white, a postmedial white spot below vein 4, and a mark in sub- 

 median interspace, these white markings with some diffused fuscous 

 before them ; hind wing grey-brown with the dark striae distinct, 

 a slight curved dark antemedial line, an indistinct diffused whitish 

 postmedial line, angled outwards below veins 7 and 4 and with a 

 dark shade before it, an indistinct dark subterminal line, incurved 

 at discal fold and excurved at middle ; underside of both wings 

 grey-brown, fore wing with the postmedial spots white and with 

 minute spots further from termen above and below vein 5 and 

 below 3, hind wing with white postmedial spots below veins 7 

 and 4. 



Ab. 1. lunaris. Fore wing with the postmedial bar more evenly 

 oblique and extending on vein 6 to near termen. — Samboangan, 

 Ternate, Celebes. 



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